Apparation/Voldy's waste/Wandering Weasleys?/Arabella/Food Glorious Food

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 28205

Just catching up after playing hooky last week:

Vanessa wrote:

> Is it possible that one can apparate WITHIN Hogwarts but not INTO 
> it <snip>  On reflection, this seems like such an obvious 
> suggestion that I can't beleive it hasn't come up before ...perhaps 
> someone can point me towards the right messages in the past...

*  Ummm, I've posted some ideas on apparation in the past.  They 
should lead you to much better musings than mine, but it should get 
you going:  #26704 & #27134.  

I've always thought that magical creatures can "apparate" in their 
own special way, and that wizards cannot apparate onto/out-of 
Hogwarts or Azkaban.

In GoF, ch6, "rules" and consequences of apparation are mentioned:

"Where's Bill and Charlie and Per-Per-Percy?"  said George, failing 
to stifle a huge yawn.
"Well, they're apparating, aren't they?" said Mrs. Weasley....
Harry knew that Apparating meant disappearing from one place and 
reappearing almost instantly in another, but had never known any 
Hogwarts student to do it, and understood that it was quite difficult.
"So, they're still in bed?" said Fred...."Why can't we Apparate too?"
"Because you're not of age and you haven't passed your test," snapped 
Mrs. Weasley....
"You have to pass a test to Apparate?" Harry asked.
"Oh yes," said Mr. Weasley..."The Department of Magical 
Transportation had to fine a couple of people the other day for 
Apparating without a license.  It's not easy, Apparition, and when 
it's not done properly it can lead to nasty complications...."You 
don't mess around with Apparition.  There are plenty of adult wizards 
who don't bother with it."

After reading that bit, I figured that Apparition is kind of like 
muggle driving.  Something you have to practice and be licensed for, 
but is not a mandatory skill. 

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Catlady wrote:
>Counter-example: Cedric.  "Kill the spare"...it was WASTEFUL.

*  I agree.  But I think that Voldy was too busy obsessing over Harry 
and his own imminent "re-birth" to power to bother with Cedric.  
Perhaps he regretted that decision, perhaps not.  Could we see 
Voldy's limited view used against him in later books?

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Cindy wrote:
> In PS/SS, Hagrid tells Harry about Gringotts.  He says it is 
> guarded by "spells -- enchantments", with dragons guarding the high-
> security vaults. As Bill is a curse-breaker and Charlie is a dragon 
> specialist, are the Weaseys going to break into Gringotts in a 
> future book?

* Weasley corruption?  Aaaaaack!  It's possible, but I'd like to drop 
in another possibility:  that they have to *break out*.  Perhaps they 
(along with Harry and who knows who else) are locked into a high-
security vault by some Big Bad (Voldy or a lackey) and they must 
escape.  Ahh, curiouser & curiouser....

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Arabella Figg: Fabulous postings & predictions by many:

* Loved reading all the possibilities for Ms. Figg - my mind is 
reeling!  I'm hoping for a resolution to the cabbage smell and her 
collection of cats in her "muggle" home.  And I'd like to see her as 
Dumbledore's "lost" paramour.  

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Susanna/pigwidgeon37's fab essay:

* Couldn't resist reading it on an empty stomach! <vbg>  Will weep 
softly for the two weeks I must endure a low-iodine diet.  Then it's 
pumpkin pasties a go-go!  

P.S. - I think that the Fat Lady probably nicked the liquors from 
some sort of still life that is hanging in Hogwarts, but I like 
Joywitch's idea of a new picture from Dean much better.

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Many interesting musings on Butterbeer:

*  Marachino cherries have an alcohol content (remembering an episode 
of Family Ties where Tom Hanks drinks a jar of 'em), as does vanilla 
extract.  I've thought that butterbeer has some vague alcohol content 
similar to that, which would affect house-elves, but not necessarily 
humans.


- Denise, S.A.D (pending), C.R.A.B., and Never-L.O.O.N. (who now has 
visions of sloshed house-elves on baking day playing through her mind)