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[Pengolodh at the boards]

No: HPFGUIDX 3834

Sundry opinions stated inbetween further down.

--- storm stanford <msmacgoo at hotmail.com> skrev: >  
this is a mix of Susan and Firebolt (and me)
> 
>   >
>   > 2) Will Harry, Ron or Hermione become an
> animagus/animaga?
> 
>   Harry won't. 
> 
>   How do you know? (alarm) - what about his r/ship
> with Hedwig? <g> also off on a tangent - all these
> unreagested Amimagus running around (3 of the
> mauraders, Rita) how hard can it be?
[snip]

Rowling has said, form what I recall, that Harry would
not become an animagus like his father was.

>   > 7) Why didn't Dobby or Winky go work for the
> Weasleys?
> 
>   (storm) I want to know this too - it's not like
> they wouldn't have been appreciated!

With Winky being in the state she was, I doubt she is
quite ready for working alone in a household quite
yet.  Dobby may not have been aware of the Weasley's
needing a house-elf initially (Dumbledore probably
picked him up quite quickly), and now, I doubt that
they can afford him.

>   > 8) Will you ever have any gay characters?
> 
>   (firebolt)I might be wrong, but I'm under the
> distinct impression that 'gay' is
>   considered derogatory. Can we word that as
> homosexual, instead?
> 
>   (storm) I'm gay/lesbian (goodness, how much self
> discloure can one list take?) I don't think its
> derogartory, OTOH, homosexual sounds like somebodys
> *very* uncomfortable but trying hard to be cool
> parent (IMO)
> 

I agree.  The term "homosexual" sounds very
academic/educational.  The term gay may have been
intended derogatory at first, but it has been
"conquered" (sp?), and as such it is not conceived as
derogatory by those to whom it matters most (I have to
work more on my sentence-structures).  While I am
interested to know whether there will be a gay or
lesbian character in future books (being gay myself),
I do not see any requirement for it.  I do not want to
see it appear just because she is "supposed" to have a
nice gay person in there (and that she wwould not do,
either, I guess).

[snip]
>   > 10) Do all wizards/witches in England go to
> Hogwarts, or are their
>   > "lessor" schools for wizards?
> 
>   I was under the impression she'd already said that
> it was the ONLY one.
>   Someone confirm this?
>   I think she has, maybe Hogwarts has some kind of
> achedimic (only related to magic ability) streaming
> so the Ernie's of the world still go there but get
> to learn other (simplier?) things
> 

I am under the impression (I am quite certain she
(Rowling) said something about this once) that
Hogwarts is the only facility of its sort in England,
Wales and Northern Ireland (or possibly all of
Ireland).  It would be interesting to know if magical
children from the Republic of Ireland go to hogwarts,
or if they have a separate facility following their
independence.  Also, what is the magical educational
facility of Scotland?  I am fairly convinced that the
facilities of magical education in Britain are
organized the same way as heraldry, possibly even with
separate laws and ministries for Scotland and the rest
of Britain.

[snip]

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margs vitandi
rir, r eim s
er und olli stendr;
Ur hto eina,
ara Verandi
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Skuld ena riio;
r log logo,
r lf kuro
alda bornom,
rlog seggia."




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