[HPforGrownups] Some questions to throw atcha

[Christopher Hortin]

No: HPFGUIDX 23876

[this message contains minor spoilers for all books. You've been
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"Mindy, a.k.a. CLH" <mindyatime at juno.com> wrote:

>1) How did Molly & Arthur get home from Kings Cross if Ron & Harry snuck
>off with the car? Didn't they notice it missing? Or am I missing
>something? (I'm sure thay could've apparated, but didn't they immediately
>realize that something happened to the car?)
>
Apparating seems like the obvious choice for getting home (Ron
mentions it when he and Harry take the car). Of course they would've
noticed if Harry or Ron didn't walk through the wall with them, and
when they walked out and saw the car missing, all they had to do was
put two and two together.

>2) How do you think, do Hermione's parents take all this magic & wizardry
>from their daughter? Can they keep their mouths shut & not share it with
>the  muggle world? 

Sure. My parents keep secrets about me, for which I am eternally
grateful.

>Do they feel 'inferior' b/c they're 'muggles'?

It's hard to say, considering that we've never seen much of them
asides from a brief meeting in Gringotts. I think that, for Book 5,
Rowling should have Harry and Ron spend the summer at her house. I
doubt that it will happen though, with that whole "Voldie is back"
thing going on.

>Do they feel bad for their daughter that she's a mudblood? 

I doubt that they realize the implications. I'm not sure if Hermione
would inform them of such things, especially if they feel inferior
all ready for being muggles. Of course, I'm not considering teenage
angst. 

"I'm a mudblood, and it's all your fault!"

>Do you think they're on to all the escapades she is involved in 
>at school?
>
Prolly not. If you were Hermione, would you tell your parents even
*half* of the stuff you got into at Hogwarts?

"My first year was a blast! I was almost killed by this ogre and
nearly eaten by a three-headed hound from Hell. My second year was a
little fuzzy; that was the year a Basilisk turned me to stone. My
third year was interesting; I got to hang out with a werewolf and an
outlaw on the Wizard's Ten Most Wanted list. My fourth year was
kinda boring in comparison. The worst that happened was getting huge
teeth and getting an awful story published about me in the
newspaper. Fortunately, neither of those things prevented me from
going to my first school dance. Things got kind of glum though when
Cedric died at the hand of a megalomaniac who wants to wipe muggles
off the map. Oh yeah, and you guys are muggles."

>3) Dementors -- are they creatures or humans? Are they born? Do the
>breed? Are they just created? Are they all at Azkaban? If not, where are
>they 'raised'?
>
They're raised in my closet next to my dirty socks and underwear
hamper. Explains a lot, doesn't it?

>4) I am still puzzled about the Marauder's Map -- why didn't Harry or
>Fred n' George see Peter a.k.a. Scabbers if they saw everyone else? And
>Sirius a.k.a. the big black dog? Snape did and they didn't?
>
Prolly because they wern't looking for Peter. I'm still not sure how
big the map is, or how big the text boxes that appear on the map
are. My guess is that with the size of Hogwarts and the number of
students attending, something like that would be easy to miss.

>5) In SS, how did Voldie get back to Albania after Quirrel died?

Um...floated? I'm not sure about this one.

>If he had the capability of 'getting back all the way to Albania' 
>couldn't he get around here too?
>
Depends. Where's 'here'? 8-)

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