Lupin's robes, spinning the sartorial thread, Sirius and the Patronus. Next DADA teacher, Dumbledore's name, Evil Draco

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No: HPFGUIDX 25155

Gwen wrote:

>What I want to know is, how the heck can the Invisibility Cloak fit >in 
>Lupin's pocket? It's large enough to fit over three teenagers. >Even 
>granted that it's made of very thin material, as I envision it, >cloaks
are 
>large. That's some deep pocket.

And Amy Z. answered
>Ah, I can't resist sartorial threads <pauses for groans.  Thank you,  
>thankyouverymuch>.  This isn't the only mention of pretty large things 
>fitting into pockets, though I can't remember any specific examples
other 
>than wands.  I always imagine that robes have big internal pockets, like
the 
>inside breast pockets of overcoats except even bigger.

Continuing to spin out this thread (please don't PUNish me, Haggrid. I'll
go quietly off to Xanth after this)
Wizard's conceptions of space and how to use it seems a bit different
than ours. Arthur Weasley bewitched the seemingly small Ford Anglia so
the seat "resembled a park bench." As (I think it was) Steve Van Der Ark
pointed out, Molly Weasley saw nothing odd or wrong about this. Moody's
trunk is another case in point. Seemingly small wizarding objects can
hold large volumes. After all, why would you need a wizarding shop like
Madam Malkin's or Gladrags to buy robes - concievably, you could obtain
similar things in the Muggle world - unless the robes have some routine
charms built into them? I don't think Jo would even need to tell us about
them unless it was integral to the plot. Of course robe pockets can hold
a lot. And just like you need a cell phone carrier these days on
handbags, I can't imagine a wizard's robe comes without a place to put
the wand. 

Cindy wrote:

>There can be serious doubt that Black knows how to generate a >Patronus 
>under the best of circumstances.  The only magic we've seen >him do 
>involves Transfiguration (animagus, conjuring manacles, >causing
Pettigrew 
>to reveal himself).  Perhaps Black is a clever >wizard, but he's not the

>greatest at DADA, which is Lupin's >expertise.
And Amy answered
>Conjuring a Patronus might be something that many wizards never master. 
I 
>don't doubt that Sirius is a great wizard, whether DADA is his special
forte 
>or not, but he's been locked up since about age 21.  Maybe he never
learned 
>it at all.

 Don't the dementors eat happy thoughts? In PoA Sirius tells Harry 
"I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew that I was
innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the dementors couldn't !suck it
out of me!" (PoA, 371) (exclamation points mine!)
After 12 years in Azkaban, Sirius simply has no happy thoughts left, the
dementors have consumed them all. So he has none to use to conjure up a
Patronus. 

Next DADA teacher? Can we all vote? 
I'll go with Prof. Grubbly Plank or 
MOLLY WEASLEY! It would be perfect. Jo could have such fun with Ron's
embarrassment over having his mother there, Molly was enjoying "not
having to cook" in GoF, and I bet she's a pretty powerful witch - Fred
and George are certainally scared of her. Arthur seems terrified. And I'm
like Gred and Forge - I love to torture Ginny, and having her mom around
at school at that particularly awful stage of preadolescence would be
deliciously excrutiating. 

If this has been discussed before, please forgive me - I've been wading
through the previous posts and VFAQs but RL intrudes to some degree. 
Dumbledore's name - is it significant? We saw that Voldemort's name was,
and Jo often uses interesting names - Sirius, Remus Lupin, etc etc etc ad
infinitum.

Evil Draco - 
What about Animagus Draco? He's clever, and other people with animal type
names do it - Draco the Dragon? I wonder though - in some final
confrontation btwn the Death Eaters and Dumbledore's crowd - would Draco,
ordered by Dad and Voldemort, really be able to lift his wand and kill
Harry? He's petty, cruel, spoiled and sly, the magical answer to Dudley,
but is he really that evil? 

Robyn, who's still trying to get Molly a job ; - )


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Donald heard a mermaid sing, Suzy spied an elf.
But all the magic I have known,
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