Prediction - Robes - fanfic - Sirius - Hagrid - Lupin

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 24044

Amanda wrote:

> [The mysterious previous Trelawney prediction] is
> identified as a true prediction by Dumbledore, so 
> it must have come to pass. 

No. Dumbledore could have called it true just because he BELIEVES that
it will come to pass.

Mindy wrote:

> BUT NONE OF THE KIDS IN SCHOOL ARE WEARING ROBES! 
> They're in stupid uniforms! Why aren't they in wizarding robes?

Because stupid Muggle WB is more interested in making look like a
traditional British boarding school story than in making it look
accurate. IIRC, another error is that they have McGonagall wearing black
robes when Harry is Sorted and the book says she is wearing emerald
green.

> can anyone direct me to a fanfic which is POST Goblet of Fire?

go to schnoogle.com and go to Barb's table of contents and read Harry
Potter and the Psychic Serpent. then go to Cassandra Claire's table of
contents and read Draco Dormiens. 

> I reread all of GoF today, but because it was the 
> Jewish Sabbath I couldn't write down any of my 
> very burning questions

I hope this doesn't sound rude, but shouldn't a person too observant to
write on Shabbes also be too observant to read for entertainment instead
of reading Bible study, Jewish history, or something of that kind?

> If Sirius was able to sneak out of Azkaban disguised 
> as a dog, why on earth did he wait thirteen years???

Besides the Dementors having made him feel so hopeless (one of the
symptoms of major depression is a strong belief that nothing will work
anyway) that he didn't bother to try until motivated by his concern for
Harry's safety, maybe he wasn't skinny enough to slip out between the
bars until then.

> I am a bit confused with the timeline -- how old
> is Hagrid? According to CoS, he's about Voldemort's age 
> -- weren't he and Tom Riddle in school together? So how
> old is Voldemort? Pettigrew is James Potter's age, so
> Voldemort must be a lot older than Pettigrew.

66 in CoS (the fall 92 - spring 93 school year). Yes.

> So Harry knows more magic than Hagrid by now -- Draco too, 

Maybe not. Maybe Hagrid has been illicitly learning his magic from his
friends among the students and from library books ever since he got
expelled.

> Why didn't this poor old guy have a love life
> when he was younger? He nevr married (then again,
> none of the teachers did -- 

Apparently Hagrid was never romantically or sexually attracted to
females one-third his height and less (I, for example, am barely over 5
foot, ie one quarter his height). So he fell for the first woman his
size that he ever saw.

JKR said in a chat that some of the teachers had been married but the
family life of teachers is 'classified' (that means she's keeping it
secret, at least until it turns up in a future book's plot)

> Can someone please explain to me how one becomes a werewolf? 

By being bitten by a werewolf in wolf form. Lupin states "That's where
all of this starts -- with my becoming a werewolf. None of this could
have happened if I hadn't been bitten"

> And how come there is no cure for werewolfs? 

Plot device. But it does show that the wizarding folk haven't solved
everything even though they have magic.

> why don't 'we' know of any other werewolves besides Lupin?

1) The wizarding folk have a huge prejudice against werewolves, so any
werewolf would try to keep that condition secret, so it could be that
some other character is a werewolf and Harry doesn't know it -- it would
have to be a character whom Harry doesn't see all that often, so he
wouldn't get curious about the once a month absences.

2) I am under the impression that werewolves are extremely rare in
Britain -- maybe four or five on the whole island. I suppose they are
more common than that on the Continent -- I like to think that poor
little Remus child was bitten in Greece.
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