Wands - Moon (FF) - Harry v. V. - underage magic - Bagman - Sirius

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18180

Belle wrote (welcome, Belle!):

>I've seen wands with 3 types of cores -- unicorn hair, phoenix 
>feather and dragon >heartstring. Has anything been written about 
>what magical properties each of these >carry?

Not that I know of-—care to have a go?

There's one other core we've heard of, but I won't say what it is 
because I'm not sure from your post whether you've read Goblet of 
Fire yet.

Re: Neville's wand, sure he has one.  He raises it in the Boggart 
lesson.  We just never learn anything about it, but the same is true 
of Dean, Seamus, and for that matter, Hermione.

Re: Sirius's wand, he might have one by GF (when do we have occasion 
to see him use one or wish for one?) but I did wonder why he didn't 
get one as soon as he escaped from Azkaban.  In PA he has to use 
Snape's.

Rosmerta wrote:

>I have the perfect solution to these seeming discrepancies: Lupin's 
>secretly a >WOMAN!

LOL!  "Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione. Only two out 
of three, I'm afraid.  I haven't been helping Sirius get into the 
castle, and I certainly don't want Harry dead.  But I won't deny that 
I =am= a woman."

>Rosmerta, who's trying to imagine all the the slash possibilities 
this revelation might >inspire 

Answer: zero.  IMO, the only reason Lupin's put into slashfics so 
often is that he's a man—-if he were a woman, his fanfic appearances 
would plummet.

Doreen wrote:

>I doubt that either Snape nor Dumbledore know that Voldemort is with 
Quirrel, or else >they would never have lured Quirrel to the stone. 
Or would they? Perhaps each >meeting of Harry and Voldemort at 
Voldemort's various stages of weakness, are all >part of a master 
plan. 

I don't know about the master plan, but Harry thinks Dumbledore knew 
about Voldemort by the time of the confrontation.  When R & H visit 
him in the hospital wing he says (paraphrase), "It's as if he thought 
I had a right to face Voldemort if I could."

Doreen:

> I realize that Voldemort did kill Harry's parents and deprive him 
of a normal life with >these parents, but I don't think this, alone, 
is enough to enrage him to rise up against >Voldemort. 

Yeah.  It wasn't enough to make him kill Sirius, or even allow S & R 
to kill Peter.

Doreen, I'm not going to speak to you anymore if you keep 
traumatizing me with lines like "Ron will most certainly either be 
killed or gravely wounded."  OK, gravely wounded I can handle.  And 
Catherine, if JKR kills Sirius I may have to sue her for emotional 
damage.  I know Harry is going to endure more losses, but losing 
Sirius would be possibly the worst—-like losing another parent.  (I 
know that in the logic of plotting, if Sirius lives it's all the more 
likely that Lupin will die, but it's a chance I'm willing to take for 
Harry's sake [she says, tearing up her reality check once and for 
all].  If one of them has to die, I'm afraid it ought to be RL.)

Jen(fold) asked re: Voldy's murders of his father & grandparents:

> Was there actually a law about underage magic during the school 
holidays at that >time? 

Yes, the law dates back to the 19th century (don't have my books, but 
it's in the owl Harry gets when Dobby smashes the pudding in CS).  
But it's a bit beside the point with Voldemort, isn't it?  I mean, 
the guy's been siccing a basilisk on his fellow students, and his 
violation of the underage magic law isn't hexing his little sister or 
whatever type thing F&G might get up to—it's triple murder.  Somehow, 
I don't think a little thing like the underage magic rule is much on 
his mind.  (Can't you see someone like Crouch getting all het up 
about the fact that he's violated the law against underage magic and 
completely ignoring the murder charges, though?  I once taught with a 
guy like that, who didn't discipline a student because "kneeing 
another student in the groin" wasn't specifically outlawed by the 
school rules
)

David wrote (welcome, David!):

>No, don't apologise - you have raised the question, what *else* did 
Voldemort get out >of her memory, for example, about her current 
boss, Ludo Bagman, or about Fudge? 

Wow, great thought.  

David again:

>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. 

She might just mean his past indictment as a DE—though I have 
wondered whether she knew more than we saw in the Pensieve, e.g. 
whether she knows that he really was a DE.  She seems a tad vehement 
about him if he's merely a dupe who never did anything wrong.  I also 
think Winky may know more about him than that Crouch Sr. didn't like 
him, even allowing for the fact that we know Crouch probably never 
stopped believing LB was a DE and has probably hated him with an even 
more intense passion since LB got into the Ministry.

And David again:

>Does he disappear at the end because V has blackmailed/recruited 
him? 

I really do wonder if LB is a double red herring and will prove to be 
a very deadly person.

Rebecca wrote:

> Do we have any canonical evidence at all for Sirius cutting a swath 
through the girls > at Hogwarts, let alone the whole wizarding (or 
witching) world? 

I'm not a big fan of this staple of fanfic, myself.  Maybe that's 
because I like Sirius and I do not tend to like men who sleep around.

Amy Z