Sirius - casting - owls - Age to read HP

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 12246

Doreen wrote:

>why would he laugh if he were innocent and witnessing Pettigrew 
actually 
>doing the murders?

Shock? anger? nervous collapse?  I know someone who laughs 
uncontrollably when she hears that someone has died.  Check out the 
thread "Pettigrew vs. Sirius" from a couple weeks back (you can search 
the archive for that phrase) for various interpretations from the 
brilliant minds of HPforGU.

>Why did Sirius slash the picture of the Fat Lady?

"Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black."  Siriusly:  Sirius is 
really desperate to get into Gryffindor.  He's the only person in the 
world who knows that Peter Pettigrew is alive and well and sleeping 4 
feet from Harry.  It isn't easy for him to get into the castle at all, 
and now he's almost to the dorm and he gets stopped cold.  Not very 
nice of him to take it out on the Fat Lady, but I can relate.

>Why didn't Sirius make Harry his Secret Keeper so that he could hide 
>and Harry would know where he was? Then, Harry could go live with 
>him... couldn't he? 

Hmmm...we've done some musing on here before on exactly how the 
Fidelius Charm works.  It seems likely to me that however it works, it 
is highly dangerous for the Secret-Keeper just because he/she is 
holding very desirable information.  If anyone unscrupulous wanted to 
get at Sirius and knew Harry was his godson, they might guess he would 
be his Secret-Keeper and try to torture him for the information.

Anne wrote:

> OK, this guy is neither an actor nor a Brit. In fact,
> he's a French figure skater. But I think he looks like
> GL!

Oh yeah--he's perfect!  It must be the s***-eating grin.

Joseph Fiennes looks like a good Sirius to me too, but he's a little 
too . . . pretty.  Maybe a good ravaged-looking makeup job would do 
the trick.

Owls:  I bet Hagrid, the Dr. Doolittle of the wizarding world, can 
call an owl to himself from the owlery (which is located high inside 
West Tower--GF, chapter where Harry sends Hedwig to Sirius to say his 
scar didn't really hurt).  Or would that count as magic?

John, whom we always knew was precocious, wrote:

>I think it's something about boys in our family. I had a reading age 
of
>14-16 when I was 8, and was in the top literary percentile all 
through
>elementary school.

The age at which you can comprehend isn't necessarily the age at which 
you can handle the emotional impact, though.  I've wondered about kids 
who can no doubt comprehend HP just fine at age 5 but will be 
terrified.  I might've been able to read PS at age 6 or 7 (except for 
the small drawback that it wouldn't be written for another 20 years), 
but I think it would've scared me at that age.

Amy Z

Who hopes that her kids can take HP before they can read it so she has 
a chance to read it to them

Oh yeah, but first she needs to have some (this IS why people have 
kids, right?  to have someone to read all the great books to?)

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"Wow!" said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest 
dreams could hope for more than being thrown into a 
storm-tossed, fathoms-deep lake and pushed out of it 
again by a giant sea monster.
                       --HP and the Goblet of Fire
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