Ghosts/Diggory/Minor Characters/Classes/Backwards stuff

[Barbara Purdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 21266

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., dfrankis at d... wrote:

> Who would be your favourite character to be a ghost
in the next 
> episode?

Cedric didnt get to finish school, so he has
unfinished business.  Also, he could give
Harry advice on how to win Cho, which would really
embarrass Harry...

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., sprsun at y... wrote:

After all,
> being a MoM official, Diggory should've been
familiar with Skeeter's
> usual twisting of facts as well.

Were shown how dim Diggory can be at the beginning of
GoF when Crouch reams him out for accusing the two
people in the woods LEAST likely to conjure the Dark
Mark: him and Harry.  (Although Crouch isnt such a
stretch if you consider he helped his Death Eater son
escape from Azkaban...)

Chris Dosset asked: > Hi all! > > I was just wondering
if anybody had any favourite
"minor" characters in the books? 

Portraits: The fat lady in the pink dress (why doesnt
she have a name?); her witch friend, Violet; and
all-time-favorite is Sir Cadogan!  Hes fantastic!

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., mediaphen at h... wrote:
> 
> IMO, there must be some classes regarded as more 
> important than others (for instance, runes couldn't 
> possibly be equally important as charms) and thus 
> given more lesson time. 

Since some classes are referred to as Double Potions
and Double Divination, there do seem to be longer
periods for some things (although Im not sure I see
the point of prolonging Divination class).  The way I
accommodated this in my fic is to put important
classes 3 days a week (Potions, Transfiguration, DADA
and Charms) and minor classes 2 days a week (Care of
Magical Creatures, Herbology, History of Magic,
Divination).

> Broomsticks:
> I watched the well known Swedish folklore researcher

> Ebbe Schn on the telly (TV, that is), stating that 
> in good old folklore tradition, witches used to fly 
> on broomsticks. However, they flied with the tail 
> first, and once they were up in the air, they turned

> around and flied upside-down. This because of, in 
> the old time Muggle's belief, everything magical was

> to be done backwards.

Actually, The Witch Family, by Eleanor Estes was one
of my favorite books as a kid, and in it witch math
and spelling does indeed go backwards.  I also read
some other childrens book where the brooms are ridden
with the twigs in front.  In addition, when there were
major witch hunts here in Europe and New England in
the seventeenth century (and earlier), one thing
accused-witches/wizards were charged with was reciting
the Lords Prayer backwards.  This was supposed to be
some form of hex.

I seem to be caught up now...

--Barb



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