Library - Harry at 21 - Crouch Sr. - Lupin on Snape

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 22641

Matt, who does not look like a moron, wrote of the library unsystem:

>I hope she addresses it, but from
>what I've read of her interviews she doesn't seem to hold even the 
>slightest
>interest in computers or the internet.

The magical possibilities are intriguing, though.  It would be fun to see 
what kind of book-finding system a magical librarian would come up with.

If you're too uninformed or stubborn to use the library's classification 
system (both of which Harry can be at times), going by section isn't a bad 
way to do research.

Joywitch wrote:

>I think that there is absolutely no question about it -- Harry is a 
>professional Quidditch player.  Im not sure what team he plays on 
>regularly, but he has already won a place on the English National Team for 
>the 2002 Quidditch World Cup.

And I have two tickets, tenth row from the top.  Joy, 15 Galleons and your 
own airfare to Brazil will get you the seat next to me.

Emma wrote:

>I think Harry would be wasted at Quidditch.  I mean, he loves it, he's 
>great at it, and England would be thrilled to have him.  But that doesn't 
>really answer the call of duty to which Harry responds without fail 
>throughout the series.  Spending his life playing a sport is, in my 
>opinion, a waste.

I agree, but sports are something you can do for several years and then 
quit.  With most sports, in fact, it's a must.  Harry would be one of the 
rare people who's actually equipped to do another job that really interests 
him and that he excels at after his sports days are over.  Let him have the 
time of his life playing Seeker for England (and, of course, helping the 
Cannons to their first Cup in 115 years), and *then* he can quit and teach 
at Hogwarts.

Wouldn't he just love it?  It's the only home he's ever had.  I don't want 
him to teach DADA, even though that's the natural choice, because Lupin will 
still be a young man (he will NOT be dead, she said in near-hysterical 
tones) and he needs a job.  Maybe he'll finally harness that prescient 
dreaming and become the Divination professor (LOL!), or maybe his 
breakthrough in GF means he'll be a Charms wiz from now on and will teach 
that.  I do love your idea of his being the flying teacher.  That's a must.

Michelle wrote:

>Mom, well, she's one of those women that always go back to the man that 
>hits her because "he loves her".

Why does everyone think Crouch Sr. was so abusive?  Barty says "he loved her 
as he had never loved me," and he did take a terrible risk, and say goodbye 
to her forever, in order to grant her last wish.  We know he was a 
neglectful father; he sounds like the classic workaholic, like many, many 
people I know who love their families but just won't straighten out their 
priorities.  His kid grew up during the Voldemort years (N.B. just a few 
years behind MWPP et al.) and so Sr. had even more reason to put work first. 
  None of that adds up to his being abusive toward his son, still less his 
wife.

He is totally cold and unfeeling toward her at the sentencing, that I'll 
grant you.  The man had a monomania.

Koinonia wrote re: Lupin's vampire essay assignment/remark:

>Oh I don't think it makes Lupin look bad at all (now dressing the Snape 
>boggart in clothes is another story!).

Just because certain members of this list Who Must Not Be Named would like 
to see Snape au naturel, that doesn't mean Neville would find him less 
terrifying that way!

;-)
Amy Z

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Snape made them all nervous, breathing down
their necks while they tried to remember
how to make a Forgetfulness potion.
             -HP and the Philosopher's Stone
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