Wizarding Businesses and more rambling.

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>" wrote:
> 
> But the dragons were put out with a sleeping draft, and weren't 
> awaken until nightfall. How do you transport 4 dragons five stories
> tall weighing tons each 1600 miles (as the dragon flys)?

Hmm. I would imagine they Levitate the packing crates containing the 
dragons ... but Charlie's friends in book 1 dragons tied Norbert's 
crate to their broomsticks with ropes rather than using Levitation 
... maybe Levitating dragons requires a separate specialist from 
caring for dragons ... 
> 
> My life would be so much earier if I could get JKR to tell me what
> the maximum range for portkey and apparation are. Don't suppose 
> anyone remembers her mentioning that?

QTTA: "Apparition becomes increasingly unreliable over very long 
distances, and only very highly skilled wizards are wise to attempt 
it across continents."

> Although, Mojo also refers to a charmed object. The only American
> Juju/Mojo charm (charmed object) that I am familiar with is a Black
> Hat Bone, which is exactly what it say, a black bone worn on your 
> hat.  Don't know what it does though.

An interesting website to poke around: a Hoodoo practitioner explains 
what classic Blues lyrics mean: http://www.luckymojo.com/blues.html