Slytherin - Fleur/Bill - Errol - Remus - Lockhart - Mrs. Snape - Arabella - Food

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No: HPFGUIDX 19442

Barbara Purdom wrote:
>  Are there any Muggle-borns at all in Slytherin?
I wonder about that too. There is a conflict between Salazar's objection
to educating Muggle-borns and the Hat's statement that devious ambitious
people go into Slytherin House. I fantasize a Muggle-born student being
Sorted into Slytherin House, being (badly) harassed by Draco and the
other racists, and Snape does his House Master duty (forcing the
students to get along together) by telling Draco that the student cannot
be really a Mudblood, must have been switched at birth (hi, Heidi!) or
be some wizard's bastard, because the Sorting Hat put her in Slytherin
and the Sorting Hat doesn't make mistakes.

jenfold wrote:
> On another Fleur matter: hands up those who think she'll get
> together with Bill. Just imagine Fleur visiting the Weasley family
> home and distracting all the men.
Sorry to be so repetitious, but I *still* love the idea of Fleur making
some excuse to visit The Burrow while the whole family is there, and
Ron, and the twins, and Percy, and Charlie are all following her around
with their tongues hanging out, and even Mr. Weasley gazes at her with a
dreamy smile, but Bill is absolutely unaffected.... until she catches
him alone and either forces a kiss on him to which he doesn't react, or
skips the kiss and just *asks* why he doesn't fancy her, to which he
tells her he's gay...

Rick wrote:
> Is anyone else concerned with the way the Weasleys treat
> Errol.  Seems kinda cruel to keep using him when he keeps
> ending up unconscious after every delivery.
I think he only ends up unconscious after long or heavy deliveries.
Still, my friend Lee wants to start a Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Owls and sic it on the Weasleys.

Vicky Ra wrote:
> Lupin does seem more reserved. I'm surprised he trusted Snape to
> make the wolfsbane for him. I mean, he could have been poisoned.
Remus knows that Dumbledore ordered Snape to make the Potion, and Snape
would not dare go against Dumbledore by poisoning him.

> What emotional problems has he got?
It seems to me that Remus makes a tremendous (and successful) effort not
merely to not show his feelings, but to avoid *any* emotional intimacy
-- he doesn't want Harry or anyone else to like him too much -- that he
starts and then stops himself from patting Harry's shoulder comfortingly
is not just that he avoids touching people (because of the way people
react to being touched by a werewolf, look at Ron with broken leg), but
also that he doesn't want Harry view him as family. I imagine that he
already, at age 11, when he started at Hogwarts, had learned to keep
himself to himself: don't tell people too much or they'll find out
you're a werewolf and they'll hate you, and don't like people too much
or it hurts too much when they turn against you. He somehow learned to
let his three friends inside that shell, and what happened? Two were
murdered by the third. All of them lost to him. It just goes to show
that making friends was a mistake in the first place.

A B olde wyche wrote:
> Anyone wonder what JKR means by "lived there", ie.
> does she mean Lupin literally lived in his office?
For what it's worth, I lead visitors to my cubicle at work and announce:
"This is where I live" or tell people at meetings "I live on the fifth
floor, cube 5-79". I'm not the only person who uses the word "lives"
that way, but I think I may be the only person who speaks of some file
as "living on" some disk: My status report lives on the floppy with the
green label.

Doreen wrote:
>  Or maybe it is Remus James and James is
> James Remus ... step-brothers. :))
If they were even stepbrothers, wouldn't Remus be Harry's uncle and
therefore the Dursleys wouldn't be 'the only family he has left'?
Anyway, I think the relationship you are imagining is half-brothers
(same mother, different fathers = different surnames) or first cousins
(their mothers were sisters), because step-siblings were not related to
each other at the time that they were born and therefore would have no
reason to have been given related names.

Jenny from Ravenclaw wrote:
>  Lockhart clearly never knew what he was doing,
I must echo all the people who said that Lockhart knew what he was doing
when he was going to leave Ginny to die just so he could publish a good
story about defeating a basalisk.

Dinah's love letter is LOL, especially "P.S.: Sorry for stalking you.",
but I think you shouldn't sign it "Mrs. Snape" -- that'd ensure that he
thinks you're hallucinating and throws it out.

Scott wrote:
> [Jude the Obscure]  IS the only other book I've ever read
> with a character named Arabella.
There is a Georgette Heyer romance (set, of course, during the English
Regency) titled ARABELLA after its heroine. It being 1:15 in the morning
my time, the name Arabella reminds me of the name Araminta, and the
off-topic fanfic thread of WHY John Walton's character Araminta keeps
claiming that her parents were too influenced by the Sixties? Araminta
is NOT NOT NOT a 1960s name. Is she referring to the 1860s?

 Simon wrote:
> I do not think they would trust the students with kitchens.
> Remembering that some are only 11 years old I do not
> think it would be safe to let them near a kitchen on their own.
> Do people think they have tea/coffee making stuff up in the
> common room and if so how does it work? No electricity and all.

Surely the older students can do that tap on the teapot with their wand
and the water immediately boils thing, even if the younger students
haven't learned it yet. In PoA: "Lupin tapped the kettle with his wand
and a blast of steam issued suddenly from the spout."
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