redux: Professors - Cedric - Wand Order

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 13177

I had got up to msg 13128 out of 13170 when egroups went down.

We are not shown the Hogwarts professors having spouses or children.
That doesn't have to mean that ALL of them are single and childless.  A
number of them are old enough to have children who are grown up; in
fact, a woman of 70 (McGonagall's age) could have become a mother at 20,
a grandma at 40, and a great-grandma at 60. I don't think McGonagall and
Hooch have had children --- remember that I am convinced that Minnie and
Hoochie have been a couple since they were in their early 20s. But I
suspect that Pomfrey is a grandma or great-grandma, whose husband may
still be alive but out travelling, so she spends only summers with him,
and it's not impossible that she has something going on with Dumbledore
during the school year.  As for Dumbledore, he is 150 -- if he had
married young, he could have outlived not only his spouse, but his
children and grandchildren. I believe that he really did see himself
holding warm socks in the Mirror of Erised, but they were specifically
the horrible socks that his late wife knitted for him as Xmas present
every year.  Are any of the professors besides Snape and DADA teachers
young enough that any children they might have must still be young 'uns?

I cried over Cedric's death. Such a nice guy. Such a *useless* death.
Such disrespect. It was at least as upsetting to me as the rather
effective horror of the spell scene.

We *all* believed that James coming out of the wand first was
intentional, and then somewhere around 9th to 12th printing of GoF, the
scene was clumsily changed to Lily coming out first, and Nick in this
group  wrote to JKR, who responded that the originally printed James was
just a mistake and the new version is correct. This group had  invented
so many other explanations! Here are a few: 1) Harry's innate magic
power and very strong desire to see his father had overridden the usual
effect of Priori Incantatem. 2) It wasn't really James, it was Harry
himself (who had been mistaken for James already in PoA) and represented
the Avada Kedavra that V had cast on H that rebounded on him. 3) The
voice that said "Take  Harry and run" was not actually James', but one
of the grandfathers, who was killed before Lily. When V caught up with
Lily and cursed her, she tossed Harry to James rather than trying to
dodge the curse. After further pursuit, V caught up with James, killed
him, and tried to kill Harry. V's statement that "I killed your mother
first" was a lie. V is not above lying!

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