Sirius' defender, hairy Sisters

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JayKay:
> There's no evidence anyone went leaping to (Sirius') defence, crying,
"No! It's not possible! He'd never do that! There must
be some kind of mistake!"

Actually, there is, in PoA Ch10, when Madame Rosmerta says "Do you know, I still have trouble believing it (...)  Of all the people to go over to the Dark Side, Sirius Black was the last I'd have thought... I mean, I remember him when he was a boy at Hogwarts.  If you'd told me then what he was going to become, I'd have said you'd had too much mead."

Which brings up something that I'm mildly curious about: how old is Madame Rosmerta?  Was she already a barmaid at the Three Broomsticks when Sirius & co were at school?  If so, that puts her at least in her thirties, and probably forties.  The 13yo Ron clearly has a taste for ogling older women!

On a related, albeit risque topic given recent ire on this list, I've been wondering whether the Weird Sisters (all very Shakespearean) are transvestites.  I mean, surely "sisters" implies that the band members are female, the Shakespeare reference is to female characters, yet they are all extremely hairy, which suggests they are likely to be male (unless witches are more hirsuite than Muggle women?).  Then again, wizards mostly seem to wear pretty unisex clothes, which rather wrecks the point of this.

Tabouli.



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