Lupin's Briefcase/Sex In HP & Triwizard Cup/OOTP

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No: HPFGUIDX 31751

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "hulintay" <hulintay at h...> wrote:
> I don't think this makes much sense. Isn't Lupin supposed to be a 
> great wizard, to have been chosen to be the DADA teacher? He *has* 
> proved that, not only by being the classes' favourite DADA teacher, 
> and how he cast that 'waddiwasi' spell on Peeves. I think he would 
at 
> least be able to cast some charm to properly put his name on his 
> briefcase


We don't know that he's a great wizard.  In fact, it seems like they 
take whatever they can get for the DADA post.  After all, they took 
Lockhart, didn't they?
However, Lupin does (at least) seem to be competent as far as 
wizarding goes.


> About sex in HP... well, there's one place all of you missed out - 
> the invisibility section in the library. I found this out in my 
> umpteenth re-reading of CoS. While Harry is spying on the 
Hufflepuffs 
> talking about him, he is "hidden in the Invisibility section". 
Isn't 
> this a *great* place for snogging and such - it's private, and 
people 
> will rarely bump into them. The problem is, what's the use of an 
> invisible invisibility section in a library???


Whoever said the section itself was invisible?  It's just the section 
of the library that has books on invisibility.


> The Triwizard Cup as a portkey: this has been bugging me every time 
I 
> read GoF. I saw the question mentioned the the FAQ, but there was 
no 
> answer. So now, i pose the question again: If the Triwizard Cup was 
a 
> portkey, and portkey's are activated at a specific time, how did 
> Harry and Cedric get transported to Voldemort upon touching the 
Cup? 
> I was thinking maybe Crouch put some spell on it or something, but 
> that doesn't sound right.


Obviously there's more than one kind of portkey.  The triwizard cup 
can't possibly have been activated by time, like the boot was.


> Lastly - the question about the Order Of The Phoenix. Exactly 
*what* 
> is the Order Of The Phoenix? The Lexicon says its probably some 
group 
> of wizards and witches, gathered together under this name, to fight 
> Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Another source (some fan-fiction, I 
> can't remember which exactly) said that the Order of the Phoenix is 
> some sort of honorory medal, like the Order of Merlin, etc. That 
> makes sense, but I have another theory: The Unspeakables. They were 
> first mentioned in GoF, and I was thinking, perhaps they are like 
> some kind of 'Emergency Police', put to use when a national 
emergency 
> like the return of Voldemort occurs. I *know* it's a wacky idea :). 


You're idea's not wacky, but at this point we have to remember that 
we absolutely nothing about the order of the Phoenix.  I could build 
a very plausible case for it being the new name of the Death Eaters, 
or some other elite group of Voldemorts, even though it's generally 
believed that it is rather an order of Dumbledore's.  Fact of the 
matter is, it's all speculation as we don't know anything at all 
about it except that it's the title of the next book.

Joshua Dyal