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[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 31548

Les wrote:

> And "arts" seems to implicate that there is something "admirable"
> to it, something that deserves appreciation.

Like Ollivander saying that You-Know-Who did 'great things. Terrible, 
yes, but great."

broken wrote:

> "Voldemort" .... sound more like "vol de mort,"

As someone already mentioned, 'vol' can mean 'theft' as well as 
'flight' (there is a classic pun of an opinion stated when Napoleon 
confiscated some estates: It is the first "vol" of the eagle). But 
Flight of Death and Theft of Death can each be taken two ways. 

One is as Flight FROM Death, that he is fleeing death, which  
correlates with his obsession with immortality. But the other is like 
Death'S Flight: he is the Flying Death that swoops down on cozy 
unsuspecting homes and kills all the people and leaves the Dark Mark 
hanging over the burned wreck.

And Theft of Death could be that he holds the power of life and death 
(over his victims) in his hands, having STOLEN it from God, Fate, 
whoever. But it also could be that he views his pursuit of 
immortality as STEALING Life from Death.

AND, as dear Philip was not the first, but the most recent, person 
to point out on this list, "vol" echoes with the Latin word for 
"will", as in "voluntary": some philosopher went on and on about The 
Will to Live, but this would be The Will to ... Die? Kill, probably.

Joywitch wrote:

> I imagine there are some parents, probably the Malfoys, who object
> to these classes and are lobbying for saltpeter potion to be mixed
> with the pumpkin juice, though.

I think probably NOT the Malfoys. I can't guess what they would think 
if they had a daughter at school, but I feel sure that they believe 
their darling son is entitled to all the nookie he can score, just 
as he's entitled to a place on the Quidditch team.

Liquidfire wrote:

> Or else, why does Percy and Penelope need to hide themselves
> rather well?

Because finding out that Percy had a *girlfriend* would inspire 
endless "humor" from Fred and George. 

lipglossua

> I looked back in the chapter and found the part where the door
> opens by itself, or so they think, but this is most likely where 
> Snape slipped in, invisible. Ron remarks that the house is haunted.
> Lupin tells him that it's not, that the ghost story was a coverup, 

HOW COULD LUPIN HAVE BEEN SO STUPID! is my question every time I read 
that scene. Even the first time I read the book, it was obvious that 
that was an invisible spy, altho' then I didn't know it was Snape.

Heather Moor 

> Haven't you proved it to *yourself* in all these years?
> S: (silence, a backing down stance, unwilling to verbally concede
> the point and yet accepting the logic).

I admire your depiction of the Dumbledore and Snape conversation  
even more than your ability to find  your own name in Wuthering 
Heights. Altho' I don't think Dumbledore hits people with a fish: 
that's us Muggles in the chat room.

Oz Widgeon wrote:

> I think that there is some type of enchantment at Hogwarts that 
> automatically 'updates' the points the instant a teacher or prefect
> says the words.

This is a forbidden 'I agree' post.