Merlin - Dumbledore/McGonagall - What Dumbledore Knows - Snape in Love - Draco - Voldemort - Ravenclaw Common Room

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Hallie Usmar wrote:
> [in]  Keats' 'The Eve of St. Agnes' , it turns out that Merlin was
> conceived by the devil.
That Merlin was the son of the Devil and a nun (nitpick: the father
begets, the *mother* conceives) and was taught magic by a wizard named
Blaise is only one of the 'origin stories' for Merlin.

Raining lizards wrote:
> am I the only one who gets a serious vibe between Dumbledore
> and McGonagall?  I've thought they were sleeping together
> since the beginning of the first book.  (snip)
> Does anyone know of any Dumbledore/McGonagall fanfic?
> Or do I have to write my own?  And is is appropriate to
> write such fanfic when HP has such a large following of under-18's?

I don't know if there is any Dumbledore/McGonagall fanfic, but there
seem to be many, many fans think who think they are obviously an item. I
personally disagree. I firmly believe that McGonagall and Hooch have
been a couple since forever. I think Dumbledore and Pomfrey may be
comforting each other's loneliness. There is a ton of NC-17 fanfic on
ffnet and other archives.

Morag Traynor wrote:
> Yet he misses three unregistered animagi under his nose
> for several years.  Odd.

It recently occurred to me that maybe one of the ways that Dumbledore
knows so much about what is going on at Hogwarts could be that the House
Elves and the ghosts inform him of any unusual things they notice. And
the House Elves and the ghosts might keep secrets for people whom they
particularly like. If charming James or kind Remus had made friends with
the House Elves, they could leave out of their report that the
Marauders' dorm room is always unoccupied on the Full Moon night when
the House Elf on that duty comes in to make up the fire (or otherwise
turn on the heat) when the wee hours start getting larger.

Amy Z wrote:
> It's =possible= that she's stunned not because Snape is going
> to fall in love and that will be a key to Book Seven, but because
> something in Book Seven will reveal that no way on earth would
> Snape ever love anyone.

I think maybe I don't believe in the existence of a human being (except
some kind of complete psychopath) who never could fall in love with
anyone.

Joe Browneyes wrote:
> Snape gay??? Yeah right- if any thing he is just avoiding
> WOMEN.. he is not gay or a homo just 'cause' he is a jerk.

I think you didn't understand my theory. I was not thinking that being a
jerk is a sign of being gay -- in fact, I feel guilty about suggesting
that a jerk is gay, as possibly contributing to anti-gay bigotry. The
two characteristics are not related at all.

> he also could not have been friends with Malfoy because
> Lucius went to school with Arthur who was in a older
> than than James, Sirus, etc.

It is possible to be friends with people whom you met after you finished
school and joined the adult world, including people who are older than
you. I have a number of good friends who are around 15 years older than
me (43 vs 55+).

> If Snape is not a DE why does he like Draco so much?
> Part of the Spy act maybe...to get Lucius to trust him, and pass
> the trust to Voldie?

Some people think that. I continue to like my theory that Snape, like
MoM and much of the wizarding public, was fooled by the Lucius's claim
that he had only followed V because he was bewitched. On another
tentacle, if Snape knows that Lucius is a very bad wizard, he could make
a pet of Draco in an effort to turn Draco away from the Dark Side.
Either for Draco's own sake or in order to use him against Lucius and
Voldemort.

Paul Hanbury wrote:
> For example, would Draco have been chaser for Slytherin
> had his father not provided the funds for new brooms?

Seeker, as someone already said. Draco seems to have been quite a good
Seeker: in PoA, he won three of the four matches he was in, and would
have won the fourth except that Harry had that Firebolt:

"And then he saw something to make his heart stand still. Malfoy
was diving, a look of triumph on his face -- there, a few feet above
the grass below, was a tiny, golden glimmer -
     Harry urged the Firebolt downward, but Malfoy was miles ahead -
     "Go! Go! Go!" Harry urged his broom. He was gaining on Malfoy --
Harry flattened himself to the broom handle as Bole sent a Bludger at
him -- he was at Malfoy's ankles -- he was level --
     Harry threw himself forward, took both hands off his broom. He
knocked Malfoy's arm out of the way and --
     "YES!"
     He pulled out of his dive, his hand in the air, and the stadium
exploded. Harry soared above the crowd, an odd ringing in his ears.
The tiny golden ball was held tight in his fist, beating its wings
hopelessly against his fingers."

"He knocked Malfoy's arm out of the way ... he pulled out of his dive
..." My point is, only a Firebolt could pull of a dive THAT sharply and
fast. If Harry had had 'merely' a Nimbus 2001, he might have grabbed the
Snitch out of Draco's hand, but would have crashed hard into the ground
immediately thereafter, thus releasing the Snitch for Draco to catch
again.

Elizabeth C wrote:
>  Who taught Voldemort the Dark Arts?? I mean, I think
> he was self-taught a lot of the later stuff, but he needed
> someone to ground him in the basics.

In my opinion, the basics of Dark Arts are the same as the basics of
non-Dark magic. Having learned the basics of magic at Hogwarts, Tom
Riddle (the future Voldemort) could have learned the rest first from
book and then by experiment. He have found some of those books in the
Restricted Section of Hogwarts library. The charming Tom Riddle could
have talked any teacher but Dumbledore into signing his permission slip
for the Restricted Section -- perhaps it was his book choices that first
made Dumbledore suspicious of him. If he had gotten into the graces of
the Mr. Malfoy of his day, he could have found more Dark Arts books in
the library of Malfoy Manor. Probably also Dark Arts equipment. Maybe a
Malfoy as Dark Arts teacher -- co-experimentor seems more likely.

Steve Vander Ark wrote:
> The truth is that we have no real idea where either the
> Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff common rooms are.

I got the feeling that the Ravenclaw common room is down in the
dungeons, from the CoS scene in which polyjuiced Harry and Ron are
looking for the Slytherin common room and run into Penelope the
Ravenclaw prefect. I don't think that Ravenclaws deserve to be put in
the dungeon. I somehow got the feeling that the Hufflepuff common room
is near the kitchens. That would be appropriate for the practical and
earthy nature of Hufflepuffs, an argument which would lead the Ravenclaw
common room to be near the library, and the Gryffindor common room to be
near Hagrid's pets. So much for that theory.
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