[HPforGrownups] About Plots and forshadowings, Red Herrings and Whatnot

[A. Green]

No: HPFGUIDX 14682


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>2.)  Weasley Wizard Wheezes! <snip> Has anyone else noticed a certain 
>emphasis on how their trick wands look just like real ones?<snip> some dark 
>malevolent being snatches up a wand so as to perform the "Avada 
>Kedavra".... Only to have it turn into a rubber chicken.
<snip>

Maybe Ludo gets redemption by intentionally handing it off.

>6.)  <snip> Where is Hagrid's pink umbrella and
>when are we going to learn more about what he did with the pieces of
>his wand? <snip>

I think the umbrella handle IS  his wand (or at least part of it).  We know 
they function (at least to some degree) even broken because of what the 
Whomping Willow did to Ron's in CoS, and Hagrid's reaction when Mr. 
Ollivander asked him about it in PS/SS.

When he said about taking his cue from "Moody" (Draco the ferret), I could 
see the pink umbrella coming out to give young Master Malfoy the tail he 
deserves. :)

I wonder if he actually stopped learning magic, though. Dumbeldore thought 
he was innocent, and kept him around. He spends time with the staff, and 
even does a little magic in his garden (making things grow).  He has access 
to the books, the ingredients ... and Dumbeldore to turn a blind eye?  Is it 
possible that in all his time at Hogwarts he's completed his magical 
training - just not officially?  Or, now that he's been cleared the way is 
paved for him to take one of those "home study" courses and get himself a 
new wand?
Knowing that he was wrongfully accused, though, and knowing about his desire 
to do magic - I really can't see him just hanging around Hogwarts and not 
doing some studying on the side.

>8.)  Does anyone else suspect that Percy Weasley is going to
>unwittingly aid the dark forces through his work with MoM? A man's
>fate is his character, and I think Percy may soon be learning that
>being "correct" is not necessarily the same as being "right". Who will
>he work for next in the ministry? Fudge perhaps?
>
>More later.... Just thought I would take these out for a spin.
>
>
>--Suzanne>

I think we saw that one coming in the way Ron worried about BC senior's 
actions - and commented about how Percy would have responded in the same 
situation.  I see him turning Ron in, or telling something he's overheard to 
Fudge (gaining an audience with the most important person in MoM to boost 
his career).  I don't like Fudge.  He was hanging around when Sirius got 
"arrested", and wouldn't be Minister if BC, junior hadn't been arrested -- 
wouldn't surprise me if he was the "arresting officer" so to speak.  Maybe 
he even set up the Longbottoms so that he could set a trap for BC, junior?
OK, rambling again.  Maybe more after I've thought through these latest 
possible twists.
Thanks for the train, Suzanne.

ladylprekaun
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