Cosmetics - Teenagers - Bagman - HP's age - Imperius - More

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 18155

I'm in a happy and verbose mood because I signed up to take all Fridays
this month off as personal days, so I got to sleep until all hours!

On one of my other lists, Karl who is in Britain put a PS on one of his
posts dated
Fri, 4 May 2001 10:52:42 +0100

> PS: I saw the moon peep out the clouds last night. She was
> getting fat but had no Silicon Soapware. If I see here tonight,
> she'll be properly attired.

I wanted to share it with all the werewolf lovers here, partly because
the wording just struck me as beautiful, but also because it is evidence
of a sort about Moon and clouds in Britain in May, a supposed spring
month.

[ Silicon Soapware is an e-zine pubbed at New Moon, my copy arrived
before Karl's post, was dated Fri, 4 May 2001 02:09:33 -0700 (PDT) ),
with masthead:
SILICON SOAPWARE
Issue #77
New Moon of April 23, 2001]

Jen jenfold wrote:
> What if some part of wizards external features in particular hair
> and eyes are like dragons hide and therefore hard to effect or change
> by magic transformation.

That makes sense! Of course, it wouldn't be EXACTLY like dragonhide: the
hair, eyes, noses change in Animagus transformation, Polyjuice Potion,
ordinary Transfiguration .... there is some passing reference to a
student in Transfiguration class who was accidentally turned into a
badger and still had black and white striped hair when turned back...
That little difference could explain why hair that had been removed from
its proper 'do' could be magically grown back, but a person with a short
'do' maybe can't magically grow it out to a long style.

Doreen wrote:
> It just goes to show you how over-confidence breeds carelessness.
> Stupid villains!
> Doreen, who thinks the same can be said of teenagers :)

Once upon a time, when PSYCH TODAY hadn't yet become so sleazy that I
discontinued my subscription, an article reported a study that found
that teenagers don't think they are invulnerable, do realize the things
they do are dangerous, are scared while doing them, but they override
their fear because of other priorities.

David Frankis wrote:
> IIRC, Rita Skeeta mentions something in Hogsmeade to
> Harry about LB, and clearly doesn't know about his
> involvement with the goblins, so  perhaps knows about
> something else.

I've always assumed that Skeeter was referring to Bagman's trial for
spying for Death Eaters. Every time my nasty old boss made me write ASS
U ME on his whiteboard, my assumption was later proved correct, but I
admit  that doesn't apply to JKR's red herrings.

Darla/Liz/Beth (?) wrote:
> when the books are released at one every year he is
> always in the same school  year as me (ie, in book four
> he is in year ten (fourth year secondary.

But that will no longer be true with Book 5. Book 4 was delayed from May
2000 to July 2000 because of JKR's rewrite for the 'plot hole'. Book 5
was delayed from May 2001 to November 2001 to IIRC May to IIRC November
2001 because JKR is too busy to spend 24 hours a day writing it.

Btw, you appear to be a Buffy fan. You might be interested in Keith
Fraser's fanfic Ginny the Vampire Slayer.

Eggplant wrote:
> The phony Mad Eye didn't teach Harry to resist the
> imperious curse because he didn't know how to do it
> himself, it took him years of painful effort and even
> then was only partially successful. Mad Eye wasn't
> teaching he was testing,

There are ways in which it is possible for a person to teach how to do
something that heesh (the teacher) can't do himerself. Athletic coaches
are an example.

Dave Hardenbrook wrote:
> And did anyone else catch that bit of foreshadowing when
> V says,  "Your part will come at the end, Wormtail; it is a
> function that my loyal supporters would GIVE THEIR
> RIGHT HAND to perform!"

Isn't it a very obvious, maybe even cliched, piece of foreshadowing? I
recognised it on first reading. I didn't have any idea that Voldemort
would use it in a spell to get a new body, but I yawned: "Oh, V is going
to cut Wormtail's hand off. Why do villains always love that pun?"

Doreen asked:
> Speaking of missing wands:
> 1) what happened to James' wand,
> 2) Lily's wand,
I expect they were destroyed along with their home.

> 3) Pettigrew's wand when he turned into a rat, or any animagi really,
I believe that an Animagus's wand, clothing, and all the stuff in hiser
pockets 'vanish'
when heesh transforms, only to 'reappear' when heesh turns human again
---otherwise known as it turns into a bit of fur, feather, scale, skin,
blood cell... My theory is that for werewolves, only their clothes,
eyeglasses, and marriage rings change along with them.

> 4) Voldemort's wand when he lost his physical form,
I like to think that V brought Pettigrew with him when he went to attack
the Potters (in order to make sure that P was not leading him into a
trap), and Pettigrew picked up V's fallen wand before turning into a rat
and fleeing.

> 5) the prisoners wands when they are sent to Azkaban,
Considering that Hagrid's wand was snapped just for having been
expelled, one would expect that the wand of anyone sentenced to life
imprisonment would be snapped. I suppose the MoM has a locked place to
keep wands of people who are being held only temporarily.

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