Combined Posts - Harry Grew Up Good - 3 Death Eaters - Future Animagi-Cheetachat

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

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Cindy wrote:

> How does one go about combining posts?  As I type this right now on 
> the message board, I only have the text of this one post to edit
> and to respond to. 

As Neil mentioned, I read the list on webview. I open a Notepad 
window and note down the message numbers of the messages that I think 
I might want to reply to / comment on. When I've read all the posts, 
I either open a second Browser window in order to click "Post" or I 
go into my e-mail client and start a new e-mail addressed to the 
group.

I use the first Browser window to go directly to each post whose 
number I saved. I highlight the part I want to quote, ctrl-C to copy, 
go to where I'm composing the letter (Notepad is safer if your 
Browser/e mail pgm has a habit of crashing at random intervals, with 
MS's lovely Illegal Act message) and ctrl-V to paste it into the new 
post. I put in the '>'s with Insert.

Rose wrote:

> It truly amazes me also that Harry has grown up to be such a 
> wonderful young man with so much concern for other people after a 
> lifetime of "abuse" from the Dursleys. 

My theory is that his mother, Lily, who not only loved him enough 
to die for him, but also was a very powerful witch, magically left 
an image of herself in his mind -- he might have perceived this 
image like an imaginary friend, except it was an imaginary mother -- 
and this image would comfort him when he was miserable ("Let mum kiss 
it and make it better -- you're a good kid, Harry, don't believe 
those silly people who say otherwise") and give him advice as well as 
an example of being nice to people.

scareyfairymary wrote:

> My take on it was that the one too cowardly to return was 
> Karkaroff, one who has left forever was Snape and one doing Dark 
> Lord's work was Crouch jnr. Although it was only on the second 
> reading 

Yes, that's what I though on the second reading, too, and I have the 
same concerns that people have mentioned about Dumbledore announced 
in open court that Snape had been a spy against the Dark Lord, so 
everyone would know it including Lucius Malfoy and Voldemort, so 
1) it would be suicidal for him to try to be a spy again, and 
2) why does Lucius let Draco like Snape? 

My fanfic requires that the Malfoys thought Snape was only pretending 
to have gone to the good side, and Snape thought that Lucius had 
sincerely gone to the good side & that is why he was so shocked that 
Lucius was at the Death Eater meeting. 

Some people have posted reasons why Voldemort could have meant that 
Snape was the coward and Karkaroff was the one who had left forever, 
and therefore Snape could come back with a good excuse for missing 
the meeting and be accepted back after non-fatal punishment.

But on the first reading, when I didn't know yet about Crouch Jr, I 
thought that Karkaroff, Bagman, and Snape were the three Death Eaters 
and I *thought* Snape was the one who had left forever but I was 
*terrified* that he was doing the Dark Lord's work at Hogwarts.  

wallaceelizabeth wrote:

> what has been discussed on the trio becoming animagus, and what
> they would transfigure into.  (snip)
> Has anyone wondered that Dumbledore, as former Transfiguration 
> teacher, would also be an animagus-- could he transfigure into a 
> phoenix. 

In one of her on-line chats, someone asked JKR if Harry would become 
an Animagus like his father and she said he will not. I was 
disappointed to see that, I want them to become Animagi.

Altho' I think Harry isn't show-offy enough to become a stag (or a 
lion, or a golden griffin). I think Harry would actually be a better 
cat than Hermione: curious but good at being invisible. Then I 
thought Hermione might be a raven, an extremely intelligent bird 
with a reputation for scholarship. Then I thought Harry might be a 
better raven than Hermione: flight and black hair.   

Supposedly 'dumbledore' is an old word for 'bumblebee' (altho' the 
dictionary I checked said it was a 'cockchafer', which I looked up in 
turn and was told it was an ephemeral June beetle) so the early 
speculation was that he was a bumblebee Animagus. The phoenix 
Animagus theory came later.

Deeblite wrote:

> it's a heck of a lot easier than this Cheetah Chat seems to be.

But Cheetah Chat lets us use fancy colors and color blends, and fancy 
fonts, and typewriter character piccies, and little jpeg piccies 
beside our names....