New Places - DADA Snape - Saving a Life - Grindelwald - Quidditch - Lee Jordan

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 21203

James Handley wrote:

> where she says something along the lines of the
> characters will be going to some new places, but
> that people will probably be able to guess where...

I CAN'T guess, but I HOPE they will go to Egypt, where Bill works as a
cursebreaker. More foxy Bill. Finally finding out what a cursebreaker
does.  And I am a BIG fan of Kemet, Ta-wy, Ta-meri (Pharaonic Egypt) and
eager to see what JKR does with it.

Sara Metz wrote:
> but could it possibly be that Snape wants to be the
> DADA professor because

My own personal theory is that Snape DOESN'T want to be the DADA
professor. The students believe that he wants the DADA job because older
students told them so, and as an explanation of why he hates all the
DADA teachers, but Snape LOVES his Potions, and had reason to dislike
each DADA teacher we've seen other than envy of the job. 

jwh chimed in about:

> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., pigwidgeon37 at y... wrote:
>> My conclusion is that james Potter did a favour
>> to Remus rather than to old Sevvie, preventing 
>> him from enterin the Shrieking Shack, because IMO
>> he thought that remus, not Severus might have been 
>> killed.
 > Although everyone (including Snape, it would seem)
> believes Snape has a wizard's debt to James because 
> of this action (ie James saved Snape's life) - 

I think that James was doing a favor to Remus, but the favor wasn't
saving him from being killed, it was saving him from becoming a
murderer.

Steve Eccleston wrote:

> That then made me think of the comments on the
> chocolate frog card in PS stating that Dumbledore 
> had defeated the dark wizard ? "Grunwald" in 1945. 
> Given JKR's constant hinting & giving of clues I 
> tend to look for meanings in most of her statements 
> & it made me wonder if she was trying to draw any 
> comparisons or allusions here, given the date. 

Yes. Enough people have noticed that date that several people on this
list are bogged down in the middle of writing fanfic about Dumbledore,
Grindelwald, Riddle, and Hitler in the World War.

Simon Pigwidgeon quoted:

> Quidditch - The Noble Sport of Warlocks?

Yet another clue that 'warlock' means something in the Potterverse
besides a synonym for 'wizard', and NOT an oathbreaker or other
disgraceful person. 

When I read Book 1, I assumed that Lee Jordan was a white boy with
dreadlocks. Then somewhere it book 4 it mentioned that Lee Jordan is
black, and I felt extremely stupid (unless, of course, I only DREAMED
that somewhere in GoF says that Lee is black, in which case I feel even
stupider). I may have mentioned that my old boss was constantly making
me write ASS U ME on his whiteboard -- to the point that he just had to
look meaningfully at the whiteboard and I would go and write it -- but
all my assumptions at work turned out to be RIGHT, not like in the
Potterverse. Anyway, I'm glad that JKR didn't do the cliche where the
one black girl and the one black boy are paired off for the dance. 

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