Python casting,house elf magic, secret keepers,Draco&Hermione&DEs

[pigwidgeon37 at yahoo.it]

No: HPFGUIDX 21665

As for Pythons playing persons of the HP universe, I'd cast young 
Eric Idle as Gilderoy Lockhart (remember Loretta in Life of Brian?)

Tabouli wrote:

"You know, the powers of those house-elves do intrigue me. If their 
wandless magical might is so magnificent, how did they come to be 
enslaved in the first place?" 

I hope it's not politically incorrect or something, but I could think 
of a parallel thing in our poor Muggle world: We have noses and dogs 
have noses. Dogs have their olfactive abilities developed in a much 
more impressive way than we have. Anyway, it was us to fly to the 
moon first.(So much for the seemingly more powerful magic of house 
elves) But the fact of being able to smell something that's 10 km 
away doesn't prevent a dog from becoming a domesticated animal. Even 
if during the first, let's say, 2000 years it made no difference to 
dogs whether they were domesticated or not, nowadays, after thousands 
of years of domesticated existence and evolution, most of them depend 
on us to survive in a "dignified" way.
Hope this doesn't sound too stupid.


Marsha wrote:

"3. James Potter must have been truly reckless. If he
thought there was a suspicion of one of his 3 friends
being a traitor, he should have picked Dumbledore for
the secret keeper. Or at least stuck with Sirius,
since he's Potter's best friend, and James seems to be
100% sure of him, that leaves either Lupin or
Pettigrew as the traitor, and a 50/50 chance is too
much to take in this instance. There is no doubt that
if Dumbledore suspects a traitor, there must be one."

That's true, but think of this: If you believe in and fight for a 
cause and on your side there is the *one* charismatic leader on whose 
personality and ability to integrate your group probably depends your 
victory, would you really risk this leader to be endangered because 
you made him  your secret keeper? IMHO, chosing not Dumbledore but 
somebody else was not recklessness, but a sign of great sense of 
responsibility towards the anti-V community.


Caius Marcius wrote:

"And also, the campground DEs were a pretty cowardly lot, picking 
only 
on helpless Muggles, and dispersing as soon as the Dark Mark was 
projected. Without Voldy, IMO they would have been too craven to 
have attacked anyone with magical prowess who could have struck 
back (meaning Hermione was safe)"

Yes, but what did YOU expect from a lot like that? Given that we have 
already discussed KKK and Nazi- similarities so many times, I think 
it obvious that DEs won't make a very different choice of victims: 
known group phenomenon. 
And I can't agree with you about Hermione's being safe because of 
being able to do magic: Cowards as they may be, they are full blown 
wizards against whom Hermione would *never* stand a chance.
The only reason I can imagine for Draco not attracting the DE's 
attention to Hermione, is his fear of the possible consequences for 
himself: Imagine him calling the DEs with Harry and Ron as eye 
witnesses!? He would be expelled from Hogwarts and maybe not even 
admitted to Durmstrang.

Susanna (who just got herself a new PC at home and dies to leave her 
office, run home and see the TRAILER!!!!)