The Chance for NEW CANON- cont.

[Erin]

Well, here it is, February 5th and less than one month until the 
World Book Day Online festival.  Which you can read about here:

http://www.bloomsbury.com/Childrens/news.asp?id=185


JKR is going to do what she hasn't done for literally years.  She's 
going to participate in a live web chat!  

 This is our chance to get mysteries solved that have been bugging 
some of us for years. We have got to be on that chat in force so that 
at least some of us will be able to get through! 

We will be the ones who aren't asking stupid questions like "Is it 
true that you wrote the first book on napkins in a local cafe?" 
or "How's your new baby?"

I know I said all this once before a couple months ago, but it is now 
way closer to the event, so I thought I'd bring this list out and 
keep it out this time.

 I've been trying to find out what needs to be done, and what I know 
so far is that the chat will be March 4th, 10 A.M. to 11 A.M.  I'm 
assuming that's British time.  Forgive me, but I haven't yet looked 
up what the time difference is between there and the states (and any 
other relevent places) but I'm thinking it will be sometime in the 
wee hours of the morning for those of us in the US.

I thought, in the meantime, maybe we could think of some more good 
questions to ask. The thing is, if we ask stuff like "Is Dumbledore 
going to die?" or "Will Harry and Ginny hook up?" she won't answer, 
and we need to keep that in mind. We should take this as an 
opportunity to ask the little questions that have been niggling us, 
not the big burning ones that are gonna get answered in the end 
anyway.

 I'll be keeping track of these, so hopefully by March we'll have a 
big long list of good questions that will clarify the way the WW 
works for us.

Here are the ones I've collected so far, I've organized them into 
categories:

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**Lupin**

In PoA, Lupin had a bag with Professor R. J. Lupin stamped on it in 
peeling letters.  Where was he a professor before Hogwarts and what 
does his middle initial stand for? 

Where does Lupin live at the end of GoF when Dumbledore tells Sirius 
to "lie low at Lupin's"?

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**The Weasleys**

How old are Mr. and Mrs. Weasley?

How old are Bill and Charlie?

Any chance that Arthur Weasley was a victim of the Imperius curse 
during You-Know-Who's first rise to power?

Ron got his leg broken in PoA.  Which leg was it, and does he have a 
scar there now?

How exactly did Scabbers attach himself to young Percy? 

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**Harry's past**

Do the colour of Harry's eyes matter specifically, or is it just the 
fact that Lily and Harry have the "same eyes" that matters?

Is Godric's Hollow in Wales?

What house (or houses) were James, Sirius, Lupin, and Peter in?

Any chance that Petunia was a squib or that her and Lily's parents,  
Mr. and Mrs. Evans, were squibs?

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**Dumbledore**

Does Dumbledore actually *like* Cockroach Clusters? 

How did Dumbledore know what made Voldemort stop possessing Harry?

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**How the WW Works**

Do "evanesco" and "scourgify" make things cease to exist or just go 
somewhere else?

Are the Pensieve's memories totally objective like a video camera?

How do children from Wizarding families learn reading and writing and 
math before they get to Hogwarts?

Why do some people make a loud "crack" when they disapparate, and 
other people make only small "pop"s?

If no one can apparate or disapparate inside Hogwarts, what is it 
that Dobby and Fawkes do when they disappear?

Are there limits to how far a wizard can be transported by apparating 
or portkeys? If so, what are the limits?

Could Arabella Figg, as a squib, actually see the dementors as she 
said at Harry's hearing, or not?

The Put-Outer is used at the Dursleys' and at Grimmauld Place.  Does 
it confer some sort of magical protection besides the cover of 
darkness for these important hideouts?

We've seen in OoP that portkeys do work inside Hogwarts.  So how come 
Crouch Jr. had to get Harry into the Triwizard Tournament and wait 
for the third task before sending Harry to Voldemort?  Couldn't he 
just have turned anything in the castle into a  Portkey at any time?

Are long fingers a sign of magical power?

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**Other people**

Blaise Zabini: boy or girl?

Will we ever find out who Florence was that the pensieve memory of 
Bertha Jorkins mentioned in the 4th book, or who she was kissing?

Will Mark Evans (the ten-year-old Dudley beat up at the beginning of 
OoP) show up in the next books at all?

Is Andromeda Tonks still alive?

Did Stan Shunpike (from the knight bus) go to Hogwarts?

Who is the Slytherin boy who saw the thestrals?

Whatever happened to Karkaroff? 

Will Harry ever meet Professor Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth?

Will there ever be a "good Slytherin"?

When Hagrid was expelled and became the gamekeeper at Hogwarts, was 
he the gamekeeper immediately at age 13?  Or was he apprenticed to 
the former gamekeeper for a while?  And if so, how long?

Was Minerva McGonagall at school with Tom Riddle?

Did Tom Riddle ever date, or was he too busy learning the Dark Arts?

What house was Moaning Myrtle in when she was alive?

I was sad about Sirius, but overall not too impressed with You-Know-
Who in Order of the Phoenix.  Is he going to get scarier in the next 
two books?  (please, please!)

Who is Arabella Figg related to in the wizarding world?
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**Other stuff**

Fans have found ways to anagram many of the names currently in Harry 
Potter.  Are there any more names in the series that are intentional 
anagrams of anything?

In GoF, did Fudge say "I've heard of a curse scar acting as an alarm 
bell before," as per the British version, or should it have 
been, "I've never heard of a curse scar acting as an alarm bell 
before," as in the American edition?

What's up with all the socks?

Why all the bad teeth?  At last count, Snape, Sirius, and Karkaroff 
all had yellow teeth, and now Hagrid's gotten some teeth knocked out 
by Grawp. Has the wizarding world never heard of dentists?

In CoS, Nearly Headless Nick is celebrating his 500th death day.  But 
in Philosopher's Stone, he tells Harry he hasn't eaten in "nearly 
four hundred years".  Is this a mistake or could he somehow eat for 
one hundred years after he died?

Was it your intention for fans to be able to work out a timeline of 
the series like the one on the DVD of Chamber of Secrets, or did you 
think of the series as more timeless when you began it?
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**Snape**

Will Harry, Ron, and Hermione ever meet (or have they already met) a 
vampire?

Are the Snapes an old wizarding family like the Blacks and Malfoys?

Are Professor Snape's parents still alive?