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[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 7951

Milz wrote:
> Interestingly, Molly (GoF) stated the Fat Lady lectured her for
sneaking
> into Gryffindor Tower late one night after spending the evening with
> Arthur. (snip) Also, I think Arthur is older than Molly. In PS/SS, Ron

> tells Harry that his parents were both in Gryffindor. If Arthur and
Molly
> are the same age (or if both were enrolled at Hogwarts concurrently),
then
> wouldn't the Fat Lady have caught both of them sneaking into the
Tower?

No,  because Arthur was caught by Filch's predecessor, named Appollyon
Pringle.  Someone on this list suggested that Arthur had deliberately
allowed himself to be caught, so as to gallantly protect Molly.

Amanda wrote:
> Okay, guys, everyone who got doubles of anything, pack 'em up and ship

> 'em to Dinah and Storm.

For my birthday back in November, one friend gave me the calendar, which
is now on my wall, ready to be used starting Monday, and already have
enabled me to complain on this list about the pictures. Another friend
gave me the Department 56 box of the Golden Snitch. That was very
thoughtful of her, and probably expensive, and I would LOVE to give the
Golden Snitch box to the daughter of the list member who mentioned that
his daughter got one and the wings both off even tho' she was gentle
with it, or to anyone else who wants it. Except for the stamped tin
charm/dangle of a broomstick (which I put on my keychain so I can
pretend that I'm dating a Quidditch player), what use have *I* got for a
box too small to hold anything??

My favorite HP present is the one I bought myself while I was Xmas
shopping: the big blue mug with the Hogwarts shield of arms. The above
mentioned friend showed that she doesn't know me as well as she thinks
she does, by expressing surprise that my favorite mug was 'so
masculine', and she had expected me to like one with Harry flying on his
broomstick.

For Xmas, yet a third friend gave me the HP Xmas stocking, which if I
had liked much more, I would have bought for myself (but now, what do I
do with it until next Xmas?) AND a Enesco 'mini figurine with story
scope; which is Harry flying his broomstick. The figurine is another
thing that I would like to give to someone who likes it better than I
do.

Therefore, people who want the Golden Snitch box (minus broomstick
pendent) or the Harry figurine, send me your snail mail address at
catlady @ wicca.net (minus the spaces).

Maya Crabtree wrote:
> My friend who'd gone to the USA brought me back a HP blue mug with
> the Hogwarts coat of arms on it (with a Crabtree&Evelyn's soap in
it...;-) ).

Crabtree & Evelyn is whom I think of when I read your name.... The blue
mug, minus the soap, and the Golden Snitch keychain, IIRC can both be
bought from warner bros store website wbstore.com

Amy Z wrote:
> WHY does James come out of V's wand before Lily, when he died
> before she did? Is this a howler of an error or a massive clue to
future
> revelations?

Carole has already reported that JKR, Bloomsbury, and Scholastic all
agree that James before Lily was an error, and it has been 'fixed' in
recent printings of GoF. Before then, members of this list developed
much better explanations: one, that Harry unconsciously used his
exceptionally strong magic power to make James appear first because he
was thinking so much about James. Another, that the person who came out
before Lily wasn't actually James, but was actually Harry (they strongly
resemble each other) and represented the UNSUCCESSFUL death curse that
Voldemort had thrown at HP which backfired to destroy V. In that theory,
James would have been the NEXT person to come out, if HP had waited long
enough. Other theories explain how Lily died before James despite the
dialogue remembered by HP: for example, that the person who said 'Run,
I'll hold him off" was a family friend, who would have been the NEXT
person to come out of the wand ....

Sara Ludwig [are you Sara or Catrina?] wrote:
> I think he [Dumbledore? Snape?] has McGonagall with him to keep
> things straight.

I suppose you used 'straight' in its meaning of 'heterosexual' (which MY
McGonagall would not appreciate: she is spending HER nights with
Hoochie), rather than in its literal meaning, which is what made me LOL
while reading that post ... threesome, eh?

Maya Crabtree wrote:
> About Karkaroff - I was wondering. Okay, so he got off the hook
> after being first caught, but I still don't see how anyone would let
him
> run a SCHOOL (snip) Who made Karkaroff a headmaster anyway?
> even if he had "turned good"?

Durmstrang, we were told, has a bad reputation for teaching Dark Arts,
not just Defense Against. If Durmstrang had always had that ethically
dubious orientation, Karkaroff having been a former Death Eater may have
been a point in his FAVOR to the selection committee. Has Lucius Malfoy
managed to get on the Board of Trustees of Durmstrang as well as of
Hogwarts?

voicelady wrote:
> In PS/SS there are also only 20 brooms in the flying lesson.   *I*
think
> that Jo was caught off-guard with the "how many students are there"
> question, and she just threw out an answer to appease the crowd.
> I don't think that she's analyzed the details as much as we have!

Jo is torn between there being around 1000 students at the real
Hogwarts, with several bedrooms for Gryffindor boys of Harry's years,
and the common room being a large suite of rooms with several
fireplaces, and there being more like 100 than 20 brooms in the flying
class, cauldrons in the potions class, and there are teaching assistants
as well as teachers (in order to deal with such large classes), versus,
she simplified it to one bedroom with five boys, one common room, 20
students in the mentioned classes in order to make the story flow more
smoothly as a work of fiction.

Amy Z wrote:
> I  notice a contradiction between the things Hagrid says about Sirius
> and his motorcycle (snip) In chapter 1 of book 1, after bringing Harry

> to Privet Drive, he tells Dumbledore and McGonagall that he  has to
> get Sirius's motorbike back to him. But in chapter ? of book 3 (snip)
> Hagrid says that when he first saw Sirius at the wreckage of  the
> Potters' house, Sirius told him to take the motorbike and that he
> wouldn't be needing it anymore.

In discussion IIRC before GoF was published, a lot of people decided
that this is just another example of Hagrid's memory/reportage being
influenced by his opinions, just like when he said there was never a
witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin, but at that time,
he believed that Sirius was the traitor, and Sirius was in Gryffindor.
In chapter 1 of book 1, Hagrid knew how much Sirius loved that
motorcycle and therefore ignored that he had said Keep It. In Book 3,
Hagrid 'knew' that Sirius was the traitor, therefore remembered
everything in the light of that knowledge.
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