Ginny's age - Mystery pic - Hedwig - C&G - Sirius the Spy

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 23993

Mecki wrote:

> One thing that really bugged me though, was Ginnys age!! I really
> couldn't believe she was going to Hogwarts in CoS. When I read PS, I
> imagined Ginny to be between 5 and 7 years old. Molly was holding 
>her
> hand all the time, the "which platform"-scene and her crying when 
>the
> train left. Her voice was described as that of a small girl, not a
> ten-year- old. My daughter is nearly 8 and she would certainly
> complain if I try to hold her hand all the time!

I agree with most of this, but not with the crying.  A lot of us cry 
at any kind of goodbye.  I cried, much to my and my parents' 
surprise, when we left my sister at college, and I was fifteen and 
wasn't even close to my sister.  (I did not, however, hold my mom's 
hand.)  Her last brother is off to school--it's pretty emotional.

There's a still, or possibly just a publicity shot, that I'm 
wondering about.  Anyone want to take a guess at what this scene is?:

http://www.hpgalleries.com/mgallery53.htm

I checked the Animal Characters FAQ but still have the following 
question about Hedwig.  Harry named her for someone he read about in 
A History of Magic; does anyone know of a famous sorcerer or such-
like named Hedwig?

Rrishi wrote:

> Draco's Three (+ Crabbe and Goyle) are an imperfect evil foil to 
> Harry's Three. I can't think exactly why, and I don't have the 
books 
> at hand, so I'll save that for later. Thorry.

Perhaps because we know so little about C & G.  We never even hear 
them speak.  Naturally we're going to know Ron and Hermione better, 
but in order to be a counterweight, C & G have to be a bit more 
fleshed-out.

Kristin wrote:

> Based on Snape's hatred of Remus and Sirius he may have supplied 
> information that both of them were spies. However James refused to 
> believe his oldest and dearest friend of such treachery. There may, 
> on the otherhand, have been doubts about Remus because of his 
> lycanthropy. James and Sirius didn't want to believe that Remus 
could 
> be the spy, but rumors about Voldemort contolling dark creatures 
> caused doubts and they knew someone had been passing information to 
> Voldemort. 

> If they had really thought things out though, they would have 
> realized it was Peter who was the spy.

I lean toward the thought that Snape, or <ahem> whoever tipped the 
Potters off (we don't know that it was Snape), didn't have a specific 
name for them, but could only tell them that it was one of a few 
people.  Or perhaps "it has to have been someone who was at the house 
last Tuesday" or something like that.  All of his rage about James's 
trust of Sirius is after the fact, when it becomes "clear" that 
Sirius was the spy.  But it seems unlikely that Dumbledore's spy knew 
exactly who Voldemort's spy was *before* the Potters' murder, because 
how would he have that kind of certainty about Sirius, whom we know 
was innocent?

Amy Z

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  "Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that
this boy--this boy!--knows nothin' abou'--about ANYTHING?" 
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