Ginny - birthdates - boa - joining - Snapetask

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 15780

Kimberly wrote:

>In CoS, we get the 'Victim Ginny' that people don't 
>really like, but her one really big mistake was trusting the diary.  
>Normally that's not something you'd expect to result in mind control 
>and attempted mass murder. 

Also, gutsy, savvy, Imperius-resisting Harry makes the same mistake.

Penny wrote:

>She did say in at least one pre-GoF interview or chat that all the
>characters would fall for the wrong people.  <snip>
>  Under this logic, I suppose there's not much hope for my
>Neville/Ginny theory, which I quite like.  :--)

There's still hope!  I wouldn't say that Neville falls for Ginny or 
vice versa in GoF.  He asks her as a second choice (I don't even know 
that he's "fallen for" Hermione for that matter) and she says yes as a 
last resort.  Not exactly raging hormones.  

Tobeybickle (any relation to Travis?) wrote:

>Those dates are all from interviews with Rowling, and they're 
supported with 
>astrolgical evidence from the books-- Hermione being named after a 
moon of 
>Jupiter, Neptune's odd angle with Mars before Harry passes out, etc.

This is intriguing, but Hermione isn't one of Jupiter's moons.  It 
would be a more likely name for the moons of Uranus, which are all 
named after Shakespearean characters, mostly women (Hermione is the 
queen in The Winter's Tale), but it isn't one of those either.

I know, I have way too much time on my hands.

Pippin wrote:

> she was asked if
>there was anything about the earlier books she wished she could go 
back
>and change. She replied that she had thought when she wrote PS/SS 
that
>boa constrictors were poisonous, and had since learned that they
>aren't.
 >       Does anyone else remember seeing this?

No, but in any case, why is this bothering her?  I know that boas 
aren't poisonous, and if anything in PS/SS hinted that the snake was 
supposed to be, I would've noticed.  It does snap its jaws at Dudley 
(or is it Piers?), but that's something a boa, as well as a poisonous 
snake, might do; they swallow their prey whole.  I'd like to see it 
try it with Dudley.

Hmmm
is JKR fretting because she's spoiled a later plot point by 
making the zoo snake nonpoisonous?  Does this mean we're going to see 
it again?

Chris wrote:

>For a long time I believed that joining 
>a group as a posting member involved wrestling with a troll, I am 
>relieved to find that this is not the case (it isn't is it ?).

No, but you do have to try on the hat.  Those who emerge as Slytherins 
are required to wear leather pants and chant daily, "Millicent 
Bulstrode is a foxy lady!"  And no trying 10 times 'til you get put in 
Gryffindor!

As an alternative to trying on the hat, you may seek out and kill John 
Walton.  We have taken up a little collection and are offering a 
bounty of $25,000 US plus bail.  Welcome!

Magda wrote:

>Here's a challenge: what OTHER task is it possible for Snape to
>undertake that does NOT include going back to V?  

Cleaning out the owlery.  That'd make anyone go pale.

Rita wrote:

>If [Snape had] 
>been seeing Peter at Death Eater meetings right along (and not seeing 
>Sirius, but perhaps that could be explained away), how could he have 
>believed the cover story

I don't think the DEs get together for a meeting too often, nor does V 
usually identify them (they do come in masks, suggesting that secrecy 
among themselves is the norm).  V's rebirthing party is a special 
occasion and an exception.  Karkaroff was probably telling the truth 
when he said they each only knew a few of the others-a time-honored 
way to manage an underground movement.
 
Amy Z
who fell for the April Fool's joke completely and almost cried