Pregnant animaga, money, movie in oxford (update)

[Simon J. Branford]

No: HPFGUIDX 4095

Jinx wrote: "Bear in mind that the foetus is still part of the mother's
body.  It really doesn't have much of a separate identity, at least not in
the early stages of pregnancy.  I think the spell to Apparate or Transform
must work on the whole body, and change/move the foetus with it.  Although
there's probably medical warnings against heavily pregnant witches doing
it."

Amanda wrote: "What I was thinking was that inanimate objects--clothes,
purses, hairpins, wands, etc.--apparently travel with the spell-caster. But
I'm not sure another animate object would. Even in utero, a baby would be a
different animate object. So that's what gave rise to the question."

How would the foetus be affected if the animal were one that did not have a
uterus? Some animals lay eggs and so on, the beetle is one of these if I
remember some of that biology stuff that some teachers tried to teach me,
and we have seen Rita turn into a beetle.


Christian wrote: "On the file posted, I noted that 8 was set to be equal to
$5, indicating an exchange rate of ca. 1.5GBP/USD (GBP=British Pound
Sterling, USD = US$).  I thought the actual exchange rate was reverse -
1.5USD/GBP?  The universal currency-converter at http://www.xe.net/ucc/ set
it around 1.45USD/GBP."

Currently it is about 1.45 USD per GBP. The pound has fallen against the
dollar recently - so a figure of 1.5 would have been correct a little while
back. I believe it was around 1.6 at the beginning of the year.


Is the movie being filmed in Oxford?
I have wandered round today and someone is definitely setting up for
something. There is no sign of any filming having happened yet, but there
are signs of props being brought in and lighting and other paraphernalia
being set up. I get the impression that it is quite a big project involving
a reasonable period of filming. Normally when people are filming in Oxford
they turn up in the morning, film for the day and go home - maybe repeating
this a few times. This looks nothing like that. There were also a few people
wandering round make notes into portable recording devices. These people had
the look of security - do not mess with me. There were also other visible
signs of security - fences ready to be put up, areas with 'authorized
personal only', etc.
Something is happening - but I still cannot confirm it to be the HP filming.
More soon - hopefully!

Simon