Intimacy Issues - Diggory - Map - Frivolity -

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No: HPFGUIDX 12831

Jim Ferer replied to Julie:
> Are Lupin's intimacy issues more severe than Professor
> Dumbledore's or Professor McGonagall's?

Logically, they ought to be. This is a man who, from early childhood,
has had to keep a very big part of his life secret from everyone but his
parents... something which would be difficult to keep secret from
friends you see all the time, except the times you aren't available are
always Full Moon... When he finally did get together with some friends
he could trust, and presumably started to open up a little, he lost them
all by (what appeared) one friend murdering all the rest. That wouldn't
exactly encourage him to seek out new people to trust. His remark in the
Shrieking Shack about never having been able to find employment (in the
US edition, the UK edition said 'paid work', which I find not as good)
indicates that word had gotten out about his lycanthropy and most
wizarding folk responded by making it clear that they didn't want his
friendship.

Kelley wrote:
> Does anyone besides me think perhaps Mr. Diggory will
> go dark now that he's lost his much-loved son, and that
> overly-hyped (to him) Harry Potter was involved?

I don't think Amos would go dark for vengeance on Harry, but it occurred
to me that he might be seduced to the Dark by promises of bringing his
son back to life.

Steve of Lexicon replied to Doreen:
> The Weasley twins have that magical sense. When confronted with
> an  item like the map, they draw on their collective experience with
> magical items and how they work and how they are created, and
> they  can intuit it's function and how to operate it. That also ties
into
> my theory of intention as being much more important that exact word
> (snip) so much so that when they need to activate an object, they can
> construct their own spell words to do so

Yes, but I am sure that there are also spells to find out about spells
-- spells to find out what spell is on a magical object and how it
works, spells to find out what curse a person is afflicted by  -- I am
sure that Bill's job as a cursebreaker involves casting spells to find
how the booby traps, how they work and how they can be disabled. To me,
the twins used spells of that sort to figure out how to work the
Marauders' Map, which is one example that they are powerful and skilled
wizards despite their low marks and scarcity of O.W.L.s. Another example
is that they invented the Canary Creams -- turning someone into a
canary, even temporarily, is Transfiguration.

Julie asked:
> Which character would you most like to be involved
> with romantically, why, and describe a perfect first date...
> And, which character would you most like to be?

It's not exactly a secret that I'm madly in love with Remus Lupin. So
much kindness. Intelligence. Self-control. And my real life shows that
I've never learned not to fall in love with men who have serious
intimacy issues! The ideal first date would involve sitting together in
some cozy bars /restaurants /coffeehouses conversing so interestedly on
some interesting topic that we don't notice the time passing until we
are surprised to be thrown out at closing time.... (It also involves
werewolves not being hurt by silver when in human form, considering the
amount of silver I wear on my hands...

H'mmm. I want to be a beautiful, brilliant, magically powerful, popular,
Ravenclaw girl... so I thought of Cho, but we don't know that she's
brilliant or powerful. Someone mentioned Fleur, and having a magic power
to turn all straight men's knees to jelly (and opposite effect
elsewhere....) often seems something I would want....
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