Stag&Weasel / Harry's grandparents / Draco / Robes

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 32019

William mongo wrote:

> It is interesting that both the Stag (Potters) and Weasel (Weasleys) 
> are considered to be enemies capable of defeating the Serpent 
>(Voldemort?)

But it is Draco who is a Weasel (twitchy little ferret, Malfoy). Btw,
I am NOT doubting your sources, but Weasels as good guys is news to 
me.

Sue Gustaf wrote:

> I also have a question about Harry's grandparents, just theories
> about why we haven't heard about them yet (there is no mention that
> they died, either set.)

They MUST have died, both sets, because Dumbledore told McGonagall 
that the Dursleys were the only family Harry had left. I have totally 
baseless theories that the Potter set were killed while fighting 
Voldemort, perhaps at the same time as James and Lily, and the Evans 
set were murdered by Petunia who was in a rage over their favoritism 
to Lily.

Aja wrote:

> Also, he took the coward's way out in shirking the wizard's duel 
> with Harry in book 1.

I think he never intended to duel with Harry; all along, he was just 
setting up a plot to lure Harry out after curfew and to have secretly 
tipped off Filch where to look for him. On first reading, I didn't 
understand that until afterwards, but on first listening, Tim heard 
Draco (Jim Dale) say "in the trophy room at midnight" and announced: 
"He has no intention of being there. He's just setting Harry up." I 
tried to ask Tim if he knew that because of being a boy, but he 
wouldn't answer.

Rachel wrote, in re Dementors:

>  He nearly wets himself, according to the Weasley twins. Hummm, 
> wonder what horrors are in Draco's memory?? Interesting. 

He has a father who is certainly capable of providing horrors. I 
wonder if it was something he did TO Draco, perhaps as a punishment, 
or just something that Draco saw, perhaps while snooping. My friend 
Lee said Lucius Malfoy is the kind of person who surely would show 
little Draco the beautiful horse that had been bought for him, and 
then require him to show that he was grown-up enough to have a real 
horse instead of a pony by himself killing his beloved pony.

Kyli wrote:

> Okay, so I know in the movie, Harry and Co. where their robes like
> an actual robe...but did it not say in PS/SS that the witch in the 
> robe shop slipped the robes _over_ Harry's head? When it said that,
> I immediately got the impression that the robes were more or less
> like dresses.

You got the right impression. The costumes in the movie were 
different from the costumes in the book. Apparently the costume 
designer thought that dressing all the kids in solid black would 
look bad on screen and make it hard to tell characters apart, 
so she got JKR's permission to invent different uniforms.