Map - 13-at-dinner prediction - Veela

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 19908

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Indigo suggested:
> 
> >And perhaps the Map only shows Peter Pettigrew to another Marauder 
> >since *they* made the map?  
> 
> That's a great idea, and MWPP should have thought of it, but they 
> didn't, 'cause Snape sees Lupin on it (ch 19).

True. But Snape is potions master. Maybe having kept at it long 
enough he came up with a solution to foil the map the Marauders 
didn't think of?

> 
> > 10. Is Trelawney's prediction that either Ron or Harry will 
> predecease the 
> > others at the table going to come true?
> 
> Indigo wrote:
> 
> >Eventually. Everybody dies.
> 
> But she says that when 13 eat together, the first to get up will be 
> the =first= to die, which is somewhat upsetting since one would 
hope 
> that the professors, who range from 20 to 140 years older than Ron 
and 
> Harry, would predecease them.  McGonagall's crack notwithstanding, 
the 
> fact that there is no mad axe-man in the entrance hall isn't at all 
> reassuring, since the prediction wasn't that the first to get up 
would 
> die =soon= but that he would die =before anyone else at the 
table.=  I 
> won't relax 'til one of the others has died (I vote for the sullen 
> Slytherin, but Filch would be okay.  Catlady can adopt Mrs. 
Norris).  

Heh!
> 
> Indigo wrote:
> 
> >What evidence do we have that the Veela are worthless?
> 
> >Fleur was good enough [and only part veela] to be picked as a 
> >Champion for the Triwizard Tournament.
> 
> >As for the other veela? We haven't seen anything of them except 
that 
> >they give off the supernatural pheremone that urges men to do 
stupid 
> >things to impress them.
> 
> I might quibble with Susan's choice of the word "worthless"--but 
try 
> "vicious and bloodthirsty" instead.  The evidence is the QWC, where 
we 
> learn that if you tick off a veela she's liable to turn into a 
monster 
> and try to kill you.  Not the most complimentary portrayal of an 
> attractive woman.
> 
Fair enough.  They reminded me of Harpies.

> Amy Z
> 
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