First Crush - Sorting Harry - Forever -

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 27532

Ethanol wrote:

> That´s exactly what we see: Hermione´s first crush is Lockhart in
> CoS, with Harry following a year later in PoA (when he notices Cho)
> and Ron in the fourth year (when he notices Fleur).

I hadn't thought before now that it might have been a crush, but Ron 
noticed Madam Rosmerta in third year. "A curvy sort of woman with a 
pretty face was serving a bunch of rowdy warlocks up at the bar.
"That's Madam Rosmerta," said Ron. "I'll get the drinks, shall I?" he
added, going slightly red."

When I first read PoA, I thought that Ron was going slightly red 
because he was a little embarrassed at feeling a little proud of 
himself for buying a round, because of his money issues. When I 
returned to PoA after reading GoF, I realised that Ron was going 
slightly red because he was going to buy a round only as an excuse to 
go to the bar and try to look down Madam Rosmerta's neckline. I had 
thought that was merely seizing the convenient opportunity for some 
ogling, but he COULD have had a crush on her.

> The other teachers where no match for Lockhart and the boys where 
> out of bounds yet.

She COULD have had a crush on one of the older boys. Percy, Oliver, 
surely there are other Gryffindor boys in their year, or: how about 
Cedric?

Prefect Marcus wrote:

> It seems that many of us take the words of the Sorting Hat, "...you
> [Harry] *would* have done well in Slytherin." to mean that the 
> Sorting Hat WAS going to put him there but was stopped because
> Harry requested not to.

I always read that scene as the Hat, once it finished studying Harry, 
was going to put him in Gryffindor anyway, but when "Harry step[ed]
right into it with his strong opposition to Slytherin", the Hat 
decided to just tease him a little.

Prefect Marcus wrote:

> will give us some protection forever." Forever didn't last very
> long, did it.  Or does it?  

Well, so far it's lasted for nine and a half years of living in the 
cupboard under the stairs with abusive relatives and four years of 
Voldemort trying to kill him.

Sharlene Pegasus wrote:

> If Krum was to return in the OOP and is too old to get into
> Hogwarts as a student, what if he becomes the DADA teacher?

I doubt Krum, or anyone who's only 18, even Harry if he lives that 
long, has had enough hands-on Defense against Dark Arts experience to 
teach it. Maybe Krum could join the Hogwarts staff as a Quidditch 
teacher.

Cindy wrote:

> Now, does anyone have a feel for what JKR means by "hag" and 
> "warlock"? 

In the Potterverse, "hag"s are non-human magical beings. FABULOUS 
BEASTS says something about the level of disorganization when the 
wizarding folk called a conference of all magical people, like "hags 
roamed the conference hall in search of children to eat".

"Warlock" is much tougher question. It can't be something bad, 
because one of the string of titles after Dumbledore's name on his 
letterhead is Chief Warlock, and Ernie MacMillan proclaims that he's 
descended from nine generations of witches and warlocks. And "Dragon 
breeding was outlawed by the Warlocks' Convention of 1709" and there 
is " section 13 of the International Confederation of Warlocks' 
Statute of Secrecy". But it doesn't make any sense to me that 
"warlock" would be synonymous and redundant with "wizard": a male 
magical human. So I invented a theory that 'warlock' is an M.P. -- an 
elected representative, wizard or witch, to a wizarding legislative 
assembly. 

Ron says "Dad was going frantic - it's only him and an old warlock
called Perkins in the office" -- which I read to mean that Perkins 
was given the job by his old friends in the legislature after he lost 
a re-election campaign, and therefore can neither be expected to 
be competent, nor fired. And they can be 'wild-looking' in the Leaky 
Cauldron and 'rowdy' in the Three Broomsticks because their 
constituents are elsewhere.