[HPforGrownups] Ghosts/Diggory/Minor Characters/Classes/Backwards stuff

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No: HPFGUIDX 21272

<<Also, he could give Harry advice on how to win Cho,>> 

whoa. creepy.




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Original Message
From: "Barbara Purdom"<blpurdom at yahoo.com>
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Ghosts/Diggory/Minor Characters/Classes/Backwards
stuff
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:44:05 -0700 (PDT)

>--- 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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