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[prefectmarcus at yahoo.com]

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Rita Winston <catlady at w...> wrote:

> Tom Riddle also has a strong resemblance to Harry. Maybe he fathered
> BOTH James AND Harry. Personally, I don't believe it -- I doubt that
> Riddle had much interest in sex and that Voldemort had any interest 
in
> sex (just power, cruelty, and immortality). Furthermore, it would be
> messy literature for all Harry's emotionalizing about James to go to
> waste. But every time I use the names Tom and Harry in the same
> sentence, I wonder: where's Dick?  

"Strong" resemblance?  True, they both had black hair.  They both are 
slender built.  However the exact quote from CoS is "We even look 
something alike."  How did this become "Strong"?

Harry is the spitting image of his father.  It even confuses him.  I 
don't recall anyone ever confusing Tom Riddle with his father, do you?


> THE MARAUDER'S MAP
> prefectmarcus wrote:
> > I have always assumed that only people who are 
> > moving, pacing, jumping, struggling, etc. show up. 
> > If you are simply sitting or sleeping, you don't show up.
> 
> If Snape or McGonagall or Filch or Mrs Norris was sitting still for 
the
> purpose of lying in wait to catch students out after curfew, the
> Marauders would need to know about it.

If you are out and about, you show up.  If you are in the hallways or 
close to them, you show up.  If you are in your living quarters, you 
don't show up.    



> THE SORTING HAT
> prefectmarcus wrote:
> > We know that each of the Hogwarts founders put
> > something of themselves into the hat.  That, I
> > believe, is the key. Imagine if you will, each 
> > student being brought before the four founders.
> 
> The problem I have with this is that old Salazar Slytherin wouldn't
> accept Muggle-born students into his House, but there MUST be
> Muggle-born students whose personalities fit best into Slytherin 
House,
> and it wouldn't be good for the other Houses to be forced to take 
those
> inappropriate students... 

You quoted it yourself.  He "disliked" non-purebloods.  But if they 
were ambitious enough, I am guessing he'd let them in.  The biggest 
muggle hater of them all, Voldemort, was a half blood.  You don't 
think Slytherin and Voldy wouldn't have gotten along?


> Lord Eadric (SCA?) wrote:
> > the world of wizards was completely separated 
> > from the muggle world with the Statute of 
> > Wizarding Secrecy of 1692.
> 
> That's what the textbooks say, but them wizards sure have a lot of 
lies
> in their textbooks ... the wizarding world is NOT entirely separated
> from the Muggle world, as there are witches and wizards with Muggle
> parents whom they spend holidays with (e.g. Hermione) and witches 
and
> wizards with Muggle spouses (e.g. Seamus Finneagan's mother). 


You are 100% correct.  So what is the question?

Good post

Marcus