Sex(HouseElves) /Sx(Crookshanks&WHO) /NotSex(ShriekingShack scene)/Evanses

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 31610

Tabouli wrote:

> So the house-elves are slaves, eh? We see them doing the usual 
> slavery stuff - heavy unpaid work, denigration of their brainpower,
> ill-treatment and so forth... but so far we've seen no clear 
> evidence of something which is widespread in cases of human 
> slavery, and that is sexual exploitation.

I suppose that it is Common Knowledge in the wizarding world that 
House Elves are too ugly and repulsive for anyone to have sex with 
except a big-time pervert. Humans have a big tendency to believe 
things that are Common Knowledge.

Heather Moore wrote:

> The one Crookshanks is destined to squall in the alley for is:
> Professor Minerva McGonagall. 
> It's every bit as obvious a pairing as Han Solo and Leia Organa
> Skywalker. (Mainly due to there being nobody else really 
> *available* for alternative pairings, and pairing women off is, 
> apparently, mandatory.)

Crookshanks can pair off with Millicent Bulstrode's cat (the one 
whose black hair turned Polyjuice!Hermione into a cat anthropomorph), 
but not with Minerva. Because in my not-humble opinon, Minerva is 
taken: I am a committed McGonagall/Hooch shipper. 

btw Heather, your later post "Harry's Betrayer" made me ROTFL.

Cindy Sphynx wrote:

> Lupin didn't know about the cloak (and I don't believe he has any
> idea Harry even has a cloak). 

PoA, the scene we're discussing:
"You might have been wearing your father's old cloak, Harry--"
"How d'you know about the cloak?"
"The number of times I saw James disappearing under it...," said 
Lupin, waving an impatient hand again. "The point is, even if you're 
wearing an Invisibility Cloak, you still show up on the Marauder's 
Map. I watched you cross the grounds and enter Hagrid's hut. Twenty 
minutes later, you left Hagrid, and set off back toward the castle. 
But you were now accompanied by somebody else."

Elizabeth Dalton wrote:

> My theory on the moon thing is that it's exposure to the rays of 
> moonlight, not the sight of the moon, that cause the change. It 
> doesn't make any "scientific" sense, but it fits the "facts" in 
> canon as well as anything else I've heard.) 

It could be perfectly 'scientific' for lycanthropic transformation to 
be triggered by the touch of moonlight, but the behavior of canon 
characters would be illogical if Lupin's lycanthropy is of that sort: 
1) if he spends Full Moon night in the Shrieking Shack with the 
windows covered by blackout curtains, he doesn't transform, so his 
friends could keep him company without turning into animagi. 2) He 
wouldn't need to go through a secret passage to the Shrieking Shack 
at all, because he could avoid moonlight probably in hospital wing 
with blackout curtains and surely in deep parts of the dungeons. 
3) He wouldn't need to take Wolfbane Potion to spend the night lying 
on the floor of his office as a tame wolf, he would need only to seal 
the windows and not transform at all.

GerRoJen Jessie wrote:

> The three sisters, Vivianne, Igraine, and Morgause really didn't
> get along too well, either.... We already know that Petunia IS 
> Harry's (Lancelot's) biological aunt. 
> So, we have Lily and Petunia. I do believe there is a third sister.
> Narcissa is my guess. 

Dumbledore said (at beginning of Book 1) that the Dursleys are the 
only family Harry has left. If Petunia and Narcissa are sisters, then 
Narcissa and Draco are just as related to Harry as Petunia and Dudley 
are (unless the relationship secretly is by way of Vernon). 

That ugly fact ruins all my beautiful theories such as, Petunia was 
the Squib daughter of Narcissa's parents. When they found that their 
toddler was a Squib, they disowned her and gave her to a Muggle 
couple who had a young daughter, named Lily, of their own. Petunia's 
hatred of magic is caused by her unconscious memory that it was magic 
that caused her to be thrown away by her first parents. And my other 
theory that Lily's parents WERE Muggles as stated, but one of them 
was Ron's mum's second cousin the accountant: a Squib or half-Squib 
half-Muggle who lived among Muggles but knew about the wizarding 
relatives, which is how Petunia's parents found them.