Stereotypes - Susan Bones - Wet Night - Crookshanks - Shipping

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 11769

Carole wrote:
> What kind of stereotyping was going on in your head to think
> that he would treat his kids otherwise?  Just because he's a man,
> or  is it because he's conservative, or religious?  Which one of those

> should have made him the type not to hug and kiss his kids?

I know that I'm guilty of stereotyping, but I have worked with a couple
of retired cops, and they matched my stereotype ... that police
officers, even former police officers, show their affection for male
(friends, relatives, sons) more by punching them in the shoulder and
telling them a joke than by hugging and kissing. It seems to me that not
long ago (in geologic time!), that style of showing affection was taken
for granted about ALL heterosexual males, not just the ones with
militaristic experience.

andrea at n...  wrote:
> Actually, Susan Bones is a Hufflepuff. Remember, the Bones (apparently

> her parents) were also killed by Voldemort, so I believe no one in
> the family is in the Death-Eater crowd.

YES! Susan Bones is in Hufflepuff. JKR said in an on-line chat that it
was her GRANDPARENTS who were the Bones whose murder Hagrid mentioned. I
plan that that murder will take place in episode 5 or 6 of my Lilyfic.

Steve Vander Ark wrote:
> Jim McGuffin of the Muggle news promised a wet night the night of
> November 1-2, 1981. And they left poor little Harry lying there in
> nothing but a blanket?

Maybe Dumbledore's interference (a Fine Weather spell -- Neil said that
in Latin back on the Yahoo Club) was what spoiled Jim McGuffin's
prediction and made him look bad.

Heather M. aka Dr. Aicha aka Aichambaye wrote:
> Well today has been great and I wanted to share - I'm going to
> London  in March and I bought my tickets today (King's Cross here
> I come!).

Cheers for you! Have a great time!

Heather M. aka Dr. Aicha aka Aichambaye wrote:
> And finally, here's something that puzzles me. Crookshanks is seen,
> esp in PoA, gadding about the castle and castle grounds at will. How
> does he get in and out of, first, the G. Tower and second, the castle
itself?

I have long believed that even Muggle cats can teleport.  And even
Muggle cats are very good at secret passages ... one of mine once got
out of the apartment through the smoke vent in the kitchen ceiling,
which I still believe to be impossible... There is a saying (I believe
the physicist J.B.S. Haldane said it before Mr. Spock did) that: "If it
exists, then it must be possible" but I'm not convinced that that
applied to cats: when I see my Taliesin climbing up my closet door, I
shout at him: "Taliesin! Stop doing that, you KNOW it's impossible!"

I WATCH THE SHIPPER DEBATES and mourn that I can offer no evidence from
canon, no evidence from books about marriage counselling, but only a
statement about what *I* can and can't imagine.  The only circumstance
in which I can imagine Ron and Hermione having a romantic, sexual, or
marriage relationship that lasts longer than briefly is IF Harry died
and his death traumatised both of them so much that they each dedicated
the rest of their life to enshrining his memory, and after several years
(I'm thinking 10, but 5 might be enough), they both got the idea that,
being as how they like each other as friends, and they have the same
obsession, and they've worked together well on projects, and neither of
them has anything even vaguely resembling a love life, it would make
sense for them to get married and have a son named Harry and a daughter
named Harriet and a son named James and a daughter named Lily and a son
named Cedric and a daughter named Alba...

Even if those of us are correct who speculate that the longer life and
slower aging of wizarding folk means witches are still fertile into
their 60s, one witch couldn't have enough children to be namesakes for
ALL the people killed by V, but she could have something like 15 or 20
children, which (as this is Hermione and Ron I'm talking about) would be
good for the gene pool. Dead Weasleys (with possible exception of aunts
and uncles who died before Ron was born) are commemorated by MIDDLE
names, as Ron *still* tends to choke up and get teary when hearing the
names of his lost family members.

So I hope it is quite clear that when I said only if Harry died, that
was NOT to get him out of the way.

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