Consistancy in the Weasley Clock (was RE: Everything you've alway s wanted to know about Clocks)

Mon Apr 23 13:56:53 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 17444

I think that any mother with kids like the Weasley's might get used 
to seeing that hand spin up into "mortal peril" pretty often.  I bet 
Charlie's gets up there all the -- I mean, hey, he works with 
dragons.  And well, Fred and George ... I can see them now, with a 
nice piece of tin or some such thing, at the top of Stoteshead 
Hill, "I think we can make it all the through the pasture this time, 
if we just add a bit more weight, COME HERE RON..."  I always picture 
them as a red-haired version of my husband's family (6 kids)  -- John 
swears that they were on a first name basis with all the people who 
worked in the near-by emergency room.  John himself has been in the 
ER in six states.  Let's face it, rambuncous kids and all of us, just 
driving down the street during rush hour, would probably swing 
into "mortal peril" more than you'd think.  My point is, I would 
imagine that the "mortal peril" hand proabably isn't the most 
reliable source of imformation.  And even if she did see swing up 
there for all of them during the DE's rampage, she may have 
thought, "What have the twins done this time?" or something of that 
sort UNTIL she got the paper the next day and realized they really 
and truly were in mortal peril -- and not just thinking about jumping 
off the stadium after a veela -- it being the paper, and not the 
clock, which upset her so much.  
Stephanie

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tandy, Heidi" <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> 
wrote:
> In my constant urge to make JKR *appear* consistant, I hereby 
present
> arguments as to why she wouldnt've been completely reassured even 
IF she'd
> looked at the clock which said, On Holiday or something like that 
(I think
> it's been indicated that *traveling* is only while someone is in 
transit,
> like while flying a car to hogwarts or apparating)
> 1. The clock MAY have spun to mortal peril for a moment for Ron - 
while the
> wizards were pointing their wands at him, Harry & Hermione - and 
from my
> Mothering Perspective, if the clock stopped on Mortal Peril even 
for a
> SECOND, I would NOT relax until my Baby (no matter how big he is!) 
was back
> by my side
> 2. Fred, George & Ginny may also have spun to mortal peril for a 
moment - or
> even a lesser "number" like Danger Zone - again, Mother does not 
relax until
> she sees for herself that her Baby is safe. 
> 3. Arthur, Bill & Charlie might have been in mortal peril, or 
danger, while
> they were trying to stop the Death Eater rampage & riot
> 
> or 4. She wasn't nervous until she looked at the newspaper in the 
morning &
> read all about the Dark Mark in the sky, etc., and then kicked 
herself for
> not having been looking at the clock the night before because she 
was
> enjoying a night alone  by catching up on reading-for-pleasure, 
taking a
> nice bath, all the other things mums do when they are left alone 
after a
> summer of dealing with large numbers of kids and didn't know WHAT 
was going
> on, because the clock has no *rewind* function, and just because 
they were
> set at *on holiday* at that moment didn't mean they were *on 
holiday* while
> recovering from injuries, separated from each other, momentarily 
tortured by
> death eaters, etc. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lea.macleod at g... [mailto:lea.macleod at g...]
> > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 4:30 AM
> > To: HPforGrownups at y...
> > Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Everything you've always wanted to 
know
> > about Clocks
> > 
> > 
> > Real-To:  lea.macleod at g...
> > 
> > Since I triggered the discussion about Harry´s watch by stating 
there 
> > are no muggle watches in HP, which was of course proved wrong 
right 
> > away, I´d like to put in another question.
> > 
> > At The Burrow, there is a clock with a hand for each member of 
the 
> > Weasley family, showing where or how they are: work, home, 
> > travelling... there is one section that says "mortal peril".
> > 
> > When the dark mark appeared at the Quidditch world cup, Mrs 
Weasley 
> > was in quite some state, actually thinking the other Weasleys 
might 
> > have been killed. She was clearly thinking there was a 
possibility 
> > that "the last thing she ever said to F and G was they didn´t get 
> > enough OWLs". 
> > 
> > Don´t you think she might have saved herself the trouble if she 
had 
> > taken one look on the clock and realised there was no danger? 
> > 
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