Muggle Watches - Snape & Lucius - Godric's Hollow - Werewolf - More

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 17354

Andrea ra wrote:
> Come to think of it, Hermione says that "all those
> things Muggles use instead of magic" don't work on
> Hogwarts grounds.  So a normal Muggle wristwatch would
> probably break.

I'm pretty sure that it's only electric, electronic, and post-electric
(e.g. nuclear) things that don't work at Hogwarts.

(Oh, poo, Morag posted this same thought while I was typing about
lycanthropy!)

So a mechanical clockwork watch powered by being wound with a
winding-stem would work at Hogwarts -- nowdays only a few multi-thousand
dollar luxury watches don't have chips and batteries, but when I was
young, all the cheap Timexi were clockwork-winding and the only digital
or battery powered watches were expensive. And manual typewriters would
work at Hogwarts -- in this computer world, how many people remember
even electric typewriters? Question: what about gaslight? Would it work
at Hogwarts?

Amy Z asked me:
> Why is Snape wishful of Lucius's being a good guy?

In my universe, which does not contradict canon but is not proved by
canon, the young-adult Snape fell in love with Lucius -- not necessarily
sexually, but in something like the hero-worship sense (altho' *I*
prefer sexually) -- and has retained the emotion until now.

The Snape I see combines his arrogance and high regard for his own
intelligence and magic talent with an otherwise low self-esteem (it must
be possible, because *I* do it, and the pain of low self-esteem seems to
me a likely source of his general nastiness to all).  Lucius, who has
intelligence and magic talent AND all the blessings that Snape despises
himself for not having: conventional good looks, fair complexion,
elegance, wealth, social standing, social graces, and IMO Quidditch
skill, must have appeared to the young Snape as "everything I want to
be". If Lucius had thought it likely enough that Snape could be useful
to him (for making illegal Potions!) to spend a few minutes smiling and
talking nice to him, Severus would have been high as a kite on the
external validation: "if such an excellent person thinks well of me, I
must be okay after all".

I see a whole tangle of projection and transference: Severus seeing
Lucius as self-image, love object, and in a way father image: *my*
projection is that low self-esteem results from being raised by parents
who didn't particularly like their child and expressed more disapproval
than approval of the child -- I imagine that Severus's parents didn't
like and didn't really want children, but felt a duty to have a son to
continue the family name, and didn't approve of anything he did except
get good grades and study curses. So Lucius as a source of external
validation would be understudying a parental role.

Morag wrote:
> Agree it's a village - it never occurred to me it was anything
> else, but the above quote is a clincher.  People turn up "in"
> villages and "at" houses. And I still think there is a "Potter
> manor" out there, complete with house-elves :)

My imagination could be totally wrong, but it sees James and Lily living
(and dying) in a sweet little cottage that Lily got to decorate herself
, not a large manor house nor Gothic castle with inherited furniture.
That doesn't mean that Harry didn't inherit such a house: it could be
that James's parents had been living in it, but they were killed earlier
the same night as James and Lily.

Kristin asked:
>  the Shrieking Shack sequence. Why does Lupin only
> transform when the full  moon came out from behind the
> clouds?  I always had the impression that a werewolf
> transformed no matter what, it didn't matter whether
> or not the moon was obscured. Is this a mistake on JKR's part

Yes, but fanfic writers have invented excuses for it. Such as Snape was
experimenting with improving the Wolfbane Potion, trying to make it
prevent the physical as well as the mental transformation, and he got it
so it prevented the physical transformation until touched by moonlight,
or Snape was trying to sabotage the Wolfbane Potion so that Lupin would
turn into a werewolf in the presence of Fudge but he got this other
effect instead....

Question: In the Summer, when Full Moon rises before sun has set, does
the werewolf turn into a wolf at moonrise in the daylight or not until
sunset?

MMMfanfic wrote:
> I think the thread was who would get the Hogwarts
> Headmaster or Headmistress job when Dumbly eventually
> goes.  And someone raised the possibility of Snape getting
> the Durmstrung Headmaster job

If one of the requirements for being Headmaster/mistress of Hogwarts is
having the initials A. D. then neither Snape nor McGonagall nor Potter
is eligible for the job.
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