Pieces of the Puzzle

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 181

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Randy Estes <estesrandy at y...> wrote:

> 1.  Hermione says: "I needn't have learned about the
> 1637 Werewolf Code of Conduct 
> Werewolves are mentioned so many times in Book One it makes your
> head spin.  They will be important again.

Werewolves are mentioned in every book: in Book 1, Ron is scared 
because he has heard that there are werewolves in the Forbidden 
Forest (which might have been named Hogwood before the school was 
built, and in those days the lake was named Hogmere?), in Book 2, TRJ 
accuses Hagrid of raising a litter of werewolf cubs under his 
bed, in Book 3, there is Lupin...  Blaise and I had some conversation 
about whether there are multiple kinds of creatures called 
"werewolf", one kind being the human who transforms just one night a 
month, and another kind being a wolf full-time. I suggested that the 
latter's bite at any time of month might turn a human into the first 
type, and Blaise suggested that type 2 might result from a wolf being 
bitten by a werewolf (type 2 any time or type 1 transformed).

> or the uprising of Elfric the Eager."  --  
> Very important, I think.  Based on Book 4, elves are
> important and an uprising is brewing because of Dobby.

Elfric the Eager probably wasn't an elf: Elfric is a human name, like 
Elvira.

> 2.  Neville the Toadless Boy. 

What I wondered while re-reading SS: the Sorting Hat took a very long 
time, almost a minute, to Sort Seamus into Gryffindor. JKR must know 
something about Seamus that we have not yet seen a clue of.

> Note that Crookshanks is always around the Griffindors house.  
> Perhaps he is a protective force for our heroes ( a secret guardian
> planted by Dumbledore) 

Or maybe not planted by Dumbledore. Maybe planted by the late Godric 
Gryffindor: wouldn't someone whose symbol is a Lion like Orange Cats? 

> more later                                 \?/
> Ravenclaw Randy :0)  aka The Mockingbird  (. .)
>                                             v

I like your birdie!
In suburban Southern California, such as the Newport Beach of my age 
1 to 6 years, mockingbirds are feisty creatures, especially in 
their nesting season, when their Seeker-style attacks on cats, dogs, 
automobiles, and babies in strollers caused public alarm, veterinary 
bills, and a lot of repainting of cars' hard tops. In Palms,the 
then-suburb in which my ex #1 grew up, his mother's Siamese cats were 
even feistier. They never had any trouble climbing trees or fighting 
even tho' she had them declawed (btw which is a sin) and they climbed 
the trees to the mockingbird nests and threw all the eggs and 
nestlings out down to the ground, thus locally exterminataing the 
pest.