Map - 13-at-dinner prediction - Veela

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 19791

Indigo suggested:

>And perhaps the Map only shows Peter Pettigrew to another Marauder 
>since *they* made the map?  

That's a great idea, and MWPP should have thought of it, but they 
didn't, 'cause Snape sees Lupin on it (ch 19).

> 10. Is Trelawney's prediction that either Ron or Harry will 
predecease the 
> others at the table going to come true?

Indigo wrote:

>Eventually. Everybody dies.

But she says that when 13 eat together, the first to get up will be 
the =first= to die, which is somewhat upsetting since one would hope 
that the professors, who range from 20 to 140 years older than Ron and 
Harry, would predecease them.  McGonagall's crack notwithstanding, the 
fact that there is no mad axe-man in the entrance hall isn't at all 
reassuring, since the prediction wasn't that the first to get up would 
die =soon= but that he would die =before anyone else at the table.=  I 
won't relax 'til one of the others has died (I vote for the sullen 
Slytherin, but Filch would be okay.  Catlady can adopt Mrs. Norris).  

Indigo wrote:

>What evidence do we have that the Veela are worthless?

>Fleur was good enough [and only part veela] to be picked as a 
>Champion for the Triwizard Tournament.

>As for the other veela? We haven't seen anything of them except that 
>they give off the supernatural pheremone that urges men to do stupid 
>things to impress them.

I might quibble with Susan's choice of the word "worthless"--but try 
"vicious and bloodthirsty" instead.  The evidence is the QWC, where we 
learn that if you tick off a veela she's liable to turn into a monster 
and try to kill you.  Not the most complimentary portrayal of an 
attractive woman.

Amy Z

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