more fun quiz questions

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 9378

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Schlobin at a... wrote:
> 
> The Knight Bus had a conductor, Stan Shunpike, but what was the 
> name of the driver? 
Ernie Prang.
In Pogonia's HARRY POTTER AND THE DOOMSPELL POTION, he has been 
replaced by a woman who actually knows how to drive.
> 
> What is the name of the Weasley family owl? 
Errol.
> 
> How many galleons did Arthur Weasley win in the Daily Prophet Draw?
I can't remember if it waas 1000 or 7000.  
> 
> Name the person most important to Fleur in the GoF... and their
> exact  relationship...
Her little sister Gabrielle.
Who is another pale blonde, presumably also 1/4 veela. Speaking of 
Fleur's family, her mother came to see her on parents' day and was 
glimpsed by Harry with no auctorial comment on her appearance. Which 
leads me to suspect that the half-veela parent was the father. Does 
it mean anything that HE didn't come to parents' day, or was he just 
at the office like Mr. Weasley?
> 
> While the Weasley family was in Egypt, where was Hermione?
South of France, getting tan and learning to eat bouillabaise.
No, I'm wrong, that was the previous summer. I don't know this one.
> 
> What did Madame Maxine's steeds need to drink?
Single-malt whiskey.
Which we do not doubt that Hagrid has available. 
I have arbitrarily declared that this is specifically single-malt 
CORN (maize) whiskey => Bourbon => a reference to the Bourbon dynasty 
of French kings, and thus another 'France' joke. 
> 
> In the PS/SS, a friend of Dudley's goes with Dudley, Vernon, 
> Petunia and Harry to the zoo. What was his name and what was his 
> usual practice? 
Piers Polkiss. He and Dudley took turns holding Harry so the other 
one could punch him in the stomach.
I wonder if the fancy front names (Dudley, Piers, and some of 
Dudley's other friends that I don't remember) (and saying that 
'Harry' is a vulgar, common name) is part of a pattern of 
lower-middle-class /upper-working-class people who try to pass as 
upper-middle-class and get it pathetically wrong? (I mean, a pattern 
which is so well-known in Britain that JKR could get a laugh just by 
hinting at it.) Which leads me to wonder if Cedric's name had a 
similar cause, as his father showed a mixture of vulgarity and vanity, 
altho' not an attempt to pass as a social class he isn't. 
For that matter, had Petunia changed her own name for those snobbish 
reasons?

> And where was the snake from?
Native to Brazil, born in captivity.
It came from Nick Lord's Claymation of the zoo animals whose words 
were improvised by humans in hospitals, jails, nursing homes...
<g>
> 
>  Aunt Marge's dog chased Harry up a tree.  What was the dog's
> name? (and why did he do nothing during the night?)
Ripper? I remember her poor abused boyfriend's name, Colonel Fubster, 
but not the dog's. He did nothing in the night because he was passed 
on drunk on Aunt Marge's left-over port wine?
> 
>  What is Uncle Vernon's drill making company called? 
Grunnings
> 
>  What is the tavern that leads into Dragon Alley called?
The Leaky Cauldron
Isn't that too easy for your quiz?
> 
>  What was the name of the wizard who bowed to Harry in the street
> before Harry knew he was a wizard? 
Dedalus Diggle.
> 
> Who was the prime suspect for setting off fireworks upon the demise
> of Lord Voldemort?
Was that also Dedalus Diggle? I can't remember the name, only 
McGonagall saying it and 'he never had much sense."
> 
> There was a substitute teacher for Professor Hagrid while he was
> reeling under the attacks of Rita Skeeter? Name? And what did the
> class learn about?
Professor Gubbly-Plank. She was a witch with crewcut white hair, and a 
mildly drill-sergeant way of speaking, which immediately suggested to 
me that she is a political lesbian, and her lesson on unicorns which 
began by telling the girls to come forward and the 
boys to hang back seemed to fit in, but nothing else went in that 
direction.
As I was reading GoF the first time, this claimed my attention as a 
discrepancy: JKR gave the sub a name and appearance that, in what I 
have become accustomed to in JKR's universe, indicates a comical 
character, but no comedy, she just did her job.e
   
> 
> Dumbledore likes to listen to chamber music in his spare time and
> what else (according to the card)?
OW! OW! OW! You got me there! 
> 
> What are Bill Weasley's boots made from?
Dragon hide. Isn't that another too easy one?