[HPforGrownups] Sirius - slashing "Fat Lady'

[Denise R]

No: HPFGUIDX 12276

How do we know it WAS Sirius who did the slashing?  It could have been
Peter, once he knew Sirius was onto him?

I know, just a thought.  I hate to see Sirius damage her, though!

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Amy Z" <aiz24 at hotmail.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Sirius - casting - owls - Age to read HP


> 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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