Priori Incantatem and ghost food

[Brooks R]

No: HPFGUIDX 1445

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Bates" <spicoli323 at h...> 
wrote:

>  In the 
interest 
> of gender equality, I guess I should at least consider the 
> possibility that Lily held Voldy off while James went off with the 
> baby, but James is the better wizard, making him more qualified to 
go 
> mano a mano with Voldy

How do we know James is the better wizard?  In Book I, Ollivander 
seems to imply that they might just have different specialties, 
although IIRC he does also imply that James was pretty powerful.  

IIRC James' specialty would be transfigurations, as Ollivander says,  
- especially since he was able to do the animagus transfiguration on 
himself; and note that two wizards we also respect are probably
pretty 
good at transfigurations - McGonagall who is animagus and teaches the 
subject - and Dumbledore who formerly taught the subject.  And back
to 
specialties, Ollivander indcates that Lily specialized in charms, as 
that's the kind of wand she got.  But who is to say that someone 
strong in charms is not equally as good a wizard as someone in 
transfigurarations?   The charms  (and their reverse, hexes) seem to 
be used an awful lot - everyday magic, but rather important - and
more 
than transfigurations, although those are often rather 'showy'.

Brooks

PS.  Joke.
Lovesick man goes to see a woman with local reputation as witch.  He 
wants a love potion to use on the object of his desires.  The woman 
tells him the newly adopted Withes' Ethics Code, and general wisdom, 
means that they no longer supply love potions to be given internally, 
and no, she is not bribable, thank you.  However, there is a new 
procedure he can try.  She gives him a bottle of pills and tells him 
to go bury one pill in the lawn of his love-object's dwelling, every 
night for a month, and see what happens.  He takes the bottle, pays 
her, and goes forth and does so.  Sure enough, after a month she 
decides that he is a very talented and attractive guy and is most 
interested in pursuing a relationship.  He goes to see the witch to 
ask just why this worked.  She tells him: 

"Nothin' says lovin' like something from the coven and Pills Buried 
says it best".
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Note: if you do NOT get this joke, the advertising slogan it puns is:
"Nothin' says lovin' like something from the oven, and Pillsbury says 
it best".