Population - ages - SHIP: Ron/Harry - new magical character

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 12596

> Now for another argument I have not seen before. At the end of first 
year
> each house had around 400 points. This seems to be a very low total.

What if students lose half as many points as they gain?  Someone with 
too much time on his/her hands should figure out how many points Harry 
actually nets for his house.  He gets so many subtracted that if it 
weren't for Quidditch, he might be a liability!

But seriously, I think this is an ingenious argument!  First day of 
classes might be special, but a nice guy like Lupin can give out 100 
points in one class meeting.  The final totals must be in the 
thousands.

Re: ages and all these casting arguments, I take back something I 
wrote recently, about Lupin being maybe 40 at the outside in order to 
be perceived by Harry as young-looking.  I keep forgetting about the 
wizard lifespan.  If McGonagall looks middle-aged at 70, the Marauders 
might well be in their 50's by now and still look like youngish adults 
(30's, to us Muggles).

There have been a few posts lately saying Ron/Harry is a bewildering 
concept.

It's not my ship, but why bewildering?  Take a pair of best friends, 
add a dose of sexual tension such as emerges when people get older 
(and, in this case, when people who've thought they were hetero 
realize they're not), and fizzzzzz, you've got a romance.  A lot of 
best-friend-ships of whatever combination (mm, ff, mf) turn into ships 
just this way in real life, no?

Maybe people are reacting to the unbearable fluffiness of some fanfic 
R/Ha pairings?

Star wrote:

> I still doubt Petunia developing skills but it's still a 
possibility. 

I go with Dudley as the one who will surprisingly develop magical 
skills.  I just want to see the look on Vernon and Petunia's faces.

He'd need a lot of character rehabilitation before he could be 
entrusted with magic, though.  Send him to Boris the Bewildered's 
Center for Nasty Little Wizards.

::evil laugh::
Amy Z

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