[HPforGrownups]Lavender Brown

[Starling]

No: HPFGUIDX 16183

Howdy, all.

I was wondering if anyone who had a copy of Roald Dahl's "Matilda" handy could do a little checking for me.  I remember a friend of Matilda's, in that book, being Lavender Brown. If memory serves (and I'm in college, so doubting my memory is routine<g>), she snuck a chameleon or a salamander or some such into school to slip into the Headmistress's water pitcher.  
Am I right or am I completly off base?  I loved "Matilda" as a kiddie (quick summary:  genius small girl grows up in horrible family, develops magical powers and scares off evil headmistress, saving her schoolmates' sanity, and is then adopted by her beloved teacher when her crook father flees the country and is moved up to a higher grade, where her powers vanish as her mind is now being properly used...)  I'd be most interested to see if Lavender, indeed, is a homage to Dahl's works, which I have always loved, and which are also wonderfully use magic and fantasy. 

Abbie, who grew up across the street from a library and once called the children's librarian "Mom"
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Flanagan 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, 09 April, 2001 4:27 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: flying


  RE:  Why did Dumbledore fly to London on a broom near the end of PS, 
  rather than just apparating there?

  The sender of the urgent message had reason to detain Dumbledore for 
  as long as possible while the bad guys were attempting their little 
  heist.  The fake note from the MOM could have instructed him not to 
  apparate, "for reasons to be explained when he got to London."  This 
  would have left him incommunicado for at least the duration of one 
  leg of the flight.

  An explanation such as this (or any of the explanations that have 
  already been proposed up thread) would be sufficient to allow JKR to 
  weasel out of this question if she is ever asked.  No harm, no foul, 
  no Flint.

  -Jim

  >> One other little inconsistency is that Dumbledore apparently flies 
  >> a broomstick to London when called there toward the end of SS/PS. 
  >> I realize that it's probably just because of the fact that JKR 
  >> hadn't thought up Apparition yet, since Dumbledore should 
  >> certainly be able to Apparate. But it's a Flint, certainly. 
  >> Maybe he accidentally let his Apparition license expire...

  > OK, I have a bunch of reasons for this, too.

  <snip>

  > 4- Actually all McG. says is that "He received an urgent owl from
  > the MOM and flew off for London at once."  Maybe what she meant
  > is that he flew as far as the edge of Hogwarts grounds and then
  > apparated into London, since AS EVERYONE KNOWS it says in 
  > Hogwarts, A History that you cant apparate or disapparate in 
  > Hogwarts.



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