[HPFGU-Catalogue] orphan post
Kathy Willson
willsonkmom at msn.com
Sun Oct 16 12:37:19 UTC 2005
Kathy W:
Neither number 2: clocks nor number 6: portraits add anything new. I would not code them.
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From: quigonginger<mailto:quigonginger at yahoo.com>
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Hi all,
I found this post. It was uncoded, so I thought I'd take a look at
it. Usually if I find one, I just do it and go on with things, but
this one is a multi-post and quite long.
I know the stuff about pics and portraits is redundant for that
category, having just finished with it, but I didn't want to go
throwing it into a bunch of other categories without checking first,
nor did I want to just toss it out on its ear.
Probably the easiest way to do this would be for each of us to look
and see if it would add anything new to the categories we have
already done, and if so, add that category. If not, do nothing (my
speciality). I'll keep the number handy, and if, in a week or so,
there has been no one jumping to it, then I'll just reject it. Of
course, anyone can go to it after that and unreject it, but it will
at least be out of the way.
I found the first bit highly amusing and the bit about DD's lack of
reaction to Hagrid having Sirius' bike interesting.
Ginger, wondering if there is life after book 7.
Number: 47512
From: Laura <metslvr19 at y>
Date: Sun Dec 01, 2002 04:48:00 AM UTC
Subject: Re: Some Questions = Theories Wanted
Let's see...I'll try to not mention the excellent points everyone
else has already made....but this was a great post, very intriguing
questions.
"evenflow200214" <daniel.brent at c...> wrote:
> 1) How would Ron have explained to the rest of the Weasley's about
the disappearence of Scabbers and aquiring Pig? We can see that they
do not know that Sirius is innocent in GoF and Ron supposedly has no
money... How would he explain Pig? >
Well, I can't avoid it here, someone else already explained it away
for me. My opinion would be that everyone already thought he had
been eaten by Crookshanks...so unless Ron decided to say "oh, by the
way Mum, that night I was dragged into Hogsmeade by a dog who turned
out to be a convincted criminal and followed by a werewolf, I found
out that my pet rat wasn't actually wasn't dead, would you believe he
was a DE who was responsible for the deaths of my best friend's
parents?" there really wouldn't be too much to explain. =)
And Pig could very well be a present form Harry or Hermione.
> 2)The Weasley's have a clock that tells each of them where each
member of the family is, home, work etc... Why then, during
<snip..stuff about the Weasleys being in mortal peril> Why doesn't
the clock tell the Weasely's that they are in "mortal
danger"? >
My best guess would simply be that they weren't paying attention. I
also particularly like the idea that the Fred/George duo either broke
the "mortal peril" function of the clock or set it off so many times
that no one cares anymore. =)
> 3) Where is the proof that Crouch attacked the Longbottoms? Sorry
to reiterate it but it has not been proven that he is guilty...>
Sorry, can't help out here...my memory fails me, I don't remember the
exact details of the plot development.
Of course, it's *entirely* possible that his innocence/guilt has
nothing to do with the plot.
But that's no fun. =)
>4) How was Sirius allowed a flying motorbike and why did Dumbledore
not react at Privet Drive? As far as he knows, Sirius is responsible
yet he lets what Hagrid says about Sirius giving him the motorbike go
over his head and doesn't even stop Hagrid when he says he wants to
take the bike back to Sirius? Is this Dumbledore being lacklustre or
something else?>
Now this interesting. Perhaps certain laws regarding Muggle objects
were not in effect then? Or maybe, like Arthur Weasley, Sirius
enchanted the motorcycle "without the intention of flying it" and
used it in this instance, seeing it as an emergancy. This seems
highly unlikely, however. Why would Sirius have a Muggle objet like
a motorcycle and the intent to enchant it to fly? (theory,
anyone? ::wink::) My best guess would be that there were no laws
against it at the time. Of course, that is pure speculation.
As for Dumbledore...firstly, I'm relatively certain that the Muggle
murders had not been committed yet. However, IIRC, only Lily, James,
Sirius, and Peter knew that Sirius was NOT the Potter's Secret-
Keeper. So when the Potters were attacked, Dumbledore would have
thought that Sirius had betrayed them. Or did Dumbledore know about
the switch?
> 5) How did Sirius know where to find Peter after the Potter's
deaths? He seems to track him down a little too easily... Did Peter
plan that Sirius find him in that particular street? And was it part
of his and Voldemort's original plan, to pretend to blow himself up,
thus framing Sirius for three murders?>
My best guess would be that they found each other because they had
been such close friends. I don't know if Peter planned to meet
Sirius in a specific spot, but I do believe he had his escape
planned. We know from canon that Peter was not very bright, so I
find it doubtful that he would come up with the clever "cutting-off-
the-finger-and-transforming" scheme on the spot. I doubt this was
part of Voldemort's plan, why would he care about Sirius? Besides,
the DEs control people through fear, they'd *want* to take credit for
12 murders in broad daylight. This seems to me just a case of a
good-for-nothing-only-looking-out-for-himself *rat* saving his own
*tail*.
>6) How do the Paintings exist? Were they people who chose to become
paintings? Are the in the control of the artist that drew them?>
Perhaps the paints used in them work in a similar manner of the
potion that magical photographs are developed in. I have a hunch
(based *kinda* on canon) that magical photographs, if not paintings,
capture a person's mood at the time the picture was taken. For
example, the photo album of Harry's parents show them smiling and
waving, and Sirius is shown laughing and having fun. However, we do
know that Sirius has something of a short temper and a rough,
somewhat ill-natured side (i.e. luring Snape into the path of
Lupin). My best evidence for this theory is in CoS, when Colin takes
the photograph of Lockhart and Harry - Harry notices that his "photo
self" was trying very hard by to resist being pulled into the picture
by Lockhart. Surely this shows his mood at the time (embarrassment,
annoyance at Lockhart's interference) and not his normal, friendly
nature.
>7) Will Harry and Cho get together, in your opinions?>
Nope. Not anytime soon, anyway. Someone else mentioned that he was
Harry's first crush. First crushes don't mean much. Besides, the
poor girl's boyfriend was just killed by the darkest wizard of all
time. Talk about rebound, I don't think she's looking for someone
new just yet, or will be for awhile. I do have a hunch that she'll
become more central to the plot, perhaps because of the Cedric
connection.
>8) Why did Snape leave Voldemort and join him in the first place, in
your opinions?>
Snape is a very Slytherin-like character. He's nasty and vicious and
determined, I think he was lured into the DE circle because of these
characteristics. As for why he left...I'd say it would have to be
something BIG. Not just "oh, he suddenly realized that the DE's were
evil." I'm leaning towards a personal conflict with Voldemort. And
don't forget, there has to be something that happens that gains him
Dumbledore's trust, and I doubt "I realized that they're not nice" is
going to cut it with Dumbledore.
>9)Why did Tom become Voldemort? Was there a trigger do you think?>
I think it actually began as something very normal and innocent. He
found out that his father left his mother because she was a witch.
Obviously his father would also be ashamed/embarrassed of him
(Voldemort) because he also had magical abilites. So he naturally
had a strong dislike for his father. The fact that his father was a
Muggle simply allowed him to use all Muggles as a scapegoat. Then he
finds out about Salazaar Slytherin and his "kill all mudbloods"
theme, and it's all Dark Arts and downhill from there.
> 10) Is Fudge merely corrupt, a good man at heart, or evil? And to
what degree?>
Fudge is an idiot. Evil, I'm not sure. Possibly. But my opinion is
that he's just a complete moron who lets himself be controlled and
maniplulated in order to gain respect. I expect he may be a good man
at heart, because he seems rather friendly; but my opinion is that
he's a complete ditz with the total inability to handle his poisition
as MoM.
/end of Laura's random babbling/
-Laura
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