Flitwick as Half-Goblin

[Liquidfire]

No: HPFGUIDX 31611

Again, before everything else:

Penny wrote:
> Liquidfire asked if we might talk about something else & basically 
asked if the Shippers would shut up (although slightly more politely).  
It seems other non-shippers have joined the general outcry.  

Penny goes on to say that if you don't like a post, don't even open it (coz
it's labled).

Ouch.  Now I feel like a bitter old guy (which I am most certainly not).
The thing is, even if I just deleted all the SHIP posts, that would still
be a waste of my time.  Look at it this way: I get something like 80
messages from HP4GU everyday.  Then you end up deleting 40 of those because
they're all SHIP-stuff.  It gets irritating, putting it harshly.  

And if I seem a bit "impolite", well I apologize, but it does really get
tiring.  And from where I come from, Internet connections still don't come
cheap.  I don't want to spend most of my time skipping posts, I want to
read them.

Now let me just clarify that I'm NOT a non-shipper or an anti-shipper.   I
enjoy a good "who's-he-gonna-end-up-with" post like the rest of them ;).

Until the next wave...

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Flitwick as half-Goblin?  I can believe that.

Contrary to some posts which stated that they never believed Flitwick was
comically small, I've always thought he was 'puny'.  He has to stand on a
'pile of books' to see over his desk (SS), and he's presumably small enough
to be thrown in the air by a Banishing charm done by Neville (GoF).  Also,
as an earlier post stated, his feet dangles while seated in a chair in the
Three Broomsticks (PoA).  I'm pretty sure Harry's feet touches the floor
when he's seated, and he's not that tall, so where does that put Flitwick?

As for him being part-goblin, part-house elf, or part whatever, it's a lot
of guesswork at this point, though.


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lipglossusa wrote:
>Why didn't Harry or Hermione think to grab the cloak before they went
through 
the tree after Ron?  If they had, at least it would've stopped Snape 
from sneaking in on them and perhaps given them a chance to transform 
the rat into Peter in front of him.    

Give them a break.  Put yourself in their shoes.  Your friend runs from
cover.  A BIG dog wallops him and seems to be visciously attacking him.
When you get close enough to help, a tree attacks you.  Then, before you
know it, your friend is dragged away from your sight.  If either Harry or
Hermione actually thought of securing the cloak, I would have been
impressed.  

This is in a pretty similar vein to questions like "Why didn't Harry speak
Parseltongue to the Basilisk?".  The answer's pretty simple:  He's a kid.
A special kid, no doubt, but still a kid.

And why is Lupin dumb?


Liquidfire