card game / lifesaving Hagrid / Lily - Old Money / Padfoot / Homorphus

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 29212

John Walton, what is 'hyperlexia'? It isn't in One-Look Dictionaries. I
have heard that word ONLY as a made-up joke word for reading too much,
i.e. being a bookworm.

Jason wrote:
> here's a spoiler of the expansion set
> Madam Rolanda Hooch
> Jawbind Potion

G'rrr, I invented a Charm to do what Jawbind Potion does. I wonder if
there are rules about what can be done by Charms versus what can be done
by Potions. 

Also, I hope they didn't check with JKR that that's really Hoochie's
name, because I would like for her to be named something very girly,
like Nina or Priscilla. I would enjoy the irony. 

Jim Beck wrote:
> In 1945 Dumbledore defeated a dark wizard 
> Grindewald.  If Hagrid saved AD's life, it 
> may have occurred in that context,

Yes, if Hagrid saved AD's life when he (Hagrid) was around 15 years old.

Yamilee wrote:
> Why go after Harry and James but not Lily?
> Where did all that money come?  Old wizarding
> money.  But how old?????

QUIDDITCH THROUGH THE AGES says the Golden Snitch was invented by Bowman
Wright of Godric's Hollow and he was flooded with orders for them. That
Godric's Hollow connection led some people to speculate that the
Potters' inheritance started from Bowman Wright's Snitch sales earnings.

Many people speculate that there was a prophecy about James Potter's son
defeating Voldemort, which was Harry, but if James was left alive there
could be another Potter son, so both Harry and James needed to be
eliminated. As for why V would hesitate one second about killing Lily as
well, having killed so many people already, the 'Snape loved Lily'
theory usually suggests that when Snape learned V's plan to kill the
Potters, he demanded or begged that V give Lily to him rather than
killing her, and V deigned to promise that he wouldn't kill Lily unless
she interfered with killing the child. But Snape knew that Lily would
not accept her life at the price of her child's, so he tipped off
Dumbledore of the plot on the Potters in an attempt to save Lily; this
may have been the first time he acted as a spy. That didn't work, Lily
was killed anyway, so ever since he has wanted to destroy V as
vengeance.

I have lately started to think that Vengefulness may be an even more
characteristic Slytherin House trait than Ambition.

Calypso wrote:
> Padfoot is Padfoot because he has padded feet

Besides the folkloric big black (or IIRC in some localities white) dog
called a Padfoot which has already been mentioned on list, a while ago
someone said that a "padfoot" is a wanderer, a person with "itchy feet".
If so, naming a dog Padfoot would be like naming a dog Rover. I would
have expected the boys to nickname their dog Animagus Rover or Fido, and
Rover is a better fit for what I imagine of Sirius's personality.

Margaret Thomas wrote:
> Can / should we presume that the
> current headmaster has blood ties
> to one of the school's four founders? 
  
I don't think there is any evidence that we should, other than the fact
that after 1000 years, almost everyone is descended from almost
everyone. What we DO have evidence for is the Headmaster of Hogwarts
having the initials AD: the only two whose names we've heard are Albus
Dumbledore and Armando Dippet. Neither Snape nor McGonagall can be the
next Headmaster because they have the wrong initials.

Manda wrote:
> Lockhart refers to the Homorphus Charm which
> he used to turn a werewolf back into a man.
> (snip) why has no one used this on Lupin? 

One theory is that the Homorphus Charm turns the werewolf back into a
man but into a man so brain-damaged that he can't speak or understand
language or feed himself. 

Another theory is that it turns the werewolf back into a man only for a
couple of minutes: long enough for his neighbors to recognize him. Once
they know who the werewolf is, they can take steps to keep him from
harming them. I would LIKE to think that the steps were that they tied
him up and locked him in a shed during the Full Moon each month, but I
fear it's more likely that they killed him while he was in vulnerable
human form during the month.

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Question for JKR:
1) In the Potterverse, what is a 'warlock'? (warrior-wizard? MP-wizard?)
2) Why aren't Thunderbirds (aka Quetzalcoatls) in FANTASTIC BEASTS?
3) Are Boggarts (not in FB) Beings or Spirits?
4) Is the Ministry of Magic part of the Muggle government or separate?
5) Does Molly Weasley have red hair like her husband and children?
6) About werewolves in the Potterverse: are they contagious when in
human form, or only in wolf form? Is silver harmful to them? Are they
transformed only at night or also in the daytime? 
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