"Harry, I am your *Uncle*" - 1492 - Uni - Wands

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18559

little Alex wrote:

>Petunia (sp) would have mentioned having a brother.

If he were a wizard, I doubt the Dursleys would ever mention him.

However, I say this only to nitpick.  I don't I believe for 1/10 of a 
second that Snape is related to Harry.  His only resemblance to James 
is black hair, and his resemblance to Lily is nil, and Star Wars-esque 
revelations give me hives besides (ROFL at your subject heading, 
Dave!).

Craig wrote:

>Was it 1492 or 1592?  400+1492=1892, not 1992.

Good math (better than Jo's).  It's a Flint.  In PS/SS 7 he says he 
hasn't eaten in nearly 400 years, but in CS 8 the cake says 1492 
(nice, easy-to-remember date).

Cait and corgis wrote:

>I sort of figured she meant "No, I'm not writing any more Harry books 
after 
>the 7th" type of thing, actually. No Harry at uni, type thing. Maybe?

IIRC, she has said both:  both that she isn't going to write about 
Harry past 7th year, at least for the foreseeable future--she does 
have other books in her that she wants to write--and that there is no 
wizarding university.

Ashley K. wrote (welcome out of lurkdom, Ashley!):

>Has anyone tried the Ollivander shop on the Official Site yet. I did 
>and I am embarassed because my wand is 13'' long. It is huge! 

Now, I hear a Ford Anglia motor revving, so I hasten to say that I'm 
getting right back to canon.  Ashley:  does the website ask how tall 
you are?  In canon, there seems to be a rough correlation between 
one's height and the length of one's wand.

Ex. from shortest to longest:

Harry's is 11"
James's was 11" (we know he was tall when an adult, but if he bought 
it when he was 11...)
Cedric's is 12 1/4"
Voldemort's is 13 1/2" and we know he was tall as a boy
Ron's new one is 14"
Hagrid's was 16"

Viktor and Fleur don't fit in; both of their wands are shorter than 
Harry's, though the people are taller.  Lily's is shorter than Harry's 
as well; we have no idea how her height at 11 compared to his.

Amy Z

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