Hooch's age - prediction - Hogwarts impressions - Movie Nimbus

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 24067

Catlady wrote:

> I like for McGonagall and Hooch to be the same age, so either Hooch 
> grayed younger or McGonagall IS dying her hair. I like for 
McGonagall 
> to have been born in 1926 like Tom Riddle and therefore been one of 
> Tom and Hagrid's classmates. However, Hooch was born in 1926 and the 
> Silver Arrow was no longer made after 1926, it would have been an 
old 
> used broom when she learned on it.

Which makes a lot of sense.  Most people learn to drive on a pretty 
old car, right?

Amanda:

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

Catlady Rita:

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

Given Dumbledore's skeptical attitude toward predicting the future 
(same scene), I don't think so.  One would have to be quite credulous 
to say a prediction was true when it hadn't come to pass yet, and 
Dumbledore is not.

Angie asked:

>What was every one else's first impression of Hogwarts like?

"I want to go there RIGHT NOW."  This is also my second, third, and 
hundredth impression.  If I'd gone to Hogwarts I'd be like Hagrid--I'd 
never have left.

Cornflower O'Shea wrote:

>I'm sure the Nimbus  will look impressive. It is described in PS as 
"sleek and shiny, with 
> a mahogany handle, it had a long tail of neat, staight twigs and 
> Nimbus Two Thousand written in gold near the top"(p.123).

They oughta make you a consultant, Cornflower.  We definitely see 
Harry's Nimbus in the trailer and it is not particularly sleek; the 
handle is quite branchlike.  (See trailer #2, when Hedwig delivers the 
broom.)  (Yes, it's Hedwig, not "6 screech owls."  Even a L.O.O.N. 
like me doesn't care about this detail, though, nor the color of 
McGonagall's robes.)

Amy Z

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 Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry's 
 death, which he found extremely annoying.
                -HP and the Goblet of Fire
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