Bowman Wright /World War II /MTA /What Mythical Beast Are You?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

You people are too interesting! I was supposed to check my laundry 
half an hour ago!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/56967

Phyllis wrote:

<< I re-reviewed QTTA, and find it interesting that Bowman Wright's 
1492 birthday (and 1560 year of death) >>

He died at 68! What happened to those long wizarding lifespans?

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:

<< I'm sure every wizard who could got out of London during the 
Blitz, but what of Platform 9 ¾? >>

I've wondered if the wizarding folk could put spells on their houses 
(and on Diagon Alley and Platform 9 3/4 and Hogwarts) that would 
cause bombs falling from the sky to just accidentally miss them. 
Anyway, Diagon Alley and Platform 9 3/4 are inside spaces that are 
bigger inside than outside (like the trunk of Arthur's little car) 
and therefore not exposed to aerial bombardment from normal space.

When I brought this question to the main list (oh, long ago), 
Pip!Squeak pointed out that London evacuee children were housed in 
Every farm and cottage in rural England, and any wizarding rural home 
that was even slightly visible to even a few neighboring Muggles (
and The Burrow was Visible to the Muggle taxi-drivers, even tho' 
distance, hedgerows, and Nothing-Interesting-Here spells kept most 
Muggles from intruding) would have had a lot of explaining to do if 
they WEREN'T housing evacuee children. There's no way they could have 
gone unnoticed if they violated the blackout. And I wonder if they 
struggled under food rationing or, contrariwise, profitted muchly by 
selling excess wizarding foodstuffs to Muggle neighbors at black 
market prices ... that one ties into my larger questions about 
wizarding food supply, like do they have wizarding farmers or buy 
from Muggles, can they multiply their food by magic or turn yuck-o 
turnips into yummygood beefsteak by Transfiguration, and so on.

<< There have always been rumors of the occultists of Britain working 
for the protection of its shores and people from outside invasion. >> 

Not merely rumors: Dion Fortune wrote in at least one of her books of 
spending hours a way in prayerful meditation envisioning the four 
archangels standing guard around the island of Britain and St. George 
on his white horse standing guard above.

David Frankis Stein wrote:

<< That doesn't seem quite right to me.  Would wizards be taking 
sides in a Muggle war?  It seems more plausible that Grindelwald 
would be stirring up war, perhaps to try to reduce the Muggle 
population on both sides, and Dumbledore to stop it.  Even WWII 
wasn't a struggle between Good and Evil. >>

Power-mad Dark Wizards (I assume that the dangerous Dark Wizards are 
all power-mad, but not necessarily all eager to exterminate Muggles) 
might use Muggle kings and armies as their proxy warriors ... my 
fanfic makes a passing reference to the ancient conflict of Merlin 
versus Fernabrant (whom I invented), in which Modred was Fernabrant's 
Muggle protege and Arthur was Merlin's Muggle protege. If Grindel- 
wald's Teutonic-sounding name and the year 1945 hint at a WWII 
connection, he might have built Hitler up from nothing to use his 
Muggles to conquer territory, or found Hitler as a loony Chancellor 
with high Dark potential and struck a deal with him (presumably the 
traditional "I'm the Devil. Give me your eternal soul and I'll make 
you a greater conqueror than Julius Caesar").

However, it is also possible that the Teutonic connection is nothing 
but a feint, and Grindelwald was as British as Fudge and Malfoy, and 
did all his evil deeds on his home island (where homes totally 
destroyed with entire families in them could conveniently be passed 
off as Blitz damage). He might even have been a Hogwarts professor!

Amy Z wrote:

<< What's MTA? >>

Metropolitan Transportation Authority. In this case, LACMTA: Los 
Angeles County MTA. We run busses and a few trains and fund bike 
lanes and street improvements ... 

Bowlwoman wrote:

<< What mythical beast are you?
http://quizilla.com/users/laur/quizzes/What%20mythical%20beast%20are%2
0you%3F/ >> 

This may be the quiz that a bunch of my friends did last year. One 
gay man was labelled an incubus, leading to a long debate about 
whether the essential difference between an incubus and a succubus 
(who are the same demon at different times!) is what sex of person 
they seduce or what sex of person they appear to be.