SuperMolly - Elective CoMC - Priori Incantatem - Werewolves - The First Task

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 25852

dasienk wrote:

> Molly is a powerful witch, no matter what
> she did before marrying Arthur. She has 
> done the most magical thing of all--she 
> Has borne and raised children who are 
> caring,loyal and loving. 

With respect, Muggles can do that, not just play chess.

frantyck wrote:

> [Molly'S] husband was clearly one 
> of the "old crowd" 

Steve Vander Ark wrote:

> More than that! Molly herself is 
> obviously part of the "old crowd."

Thank you, Steve! You said it so much more efficiently than I would
have.

Kelly the Yarn Junkie wrote:

> Hmmm.  If Care of Magical Creatures is, 
> in fact, an elective: 1) Why did Harry need 
> _Fantastic Beasts..._ for his first year? 
> 2) Why didn't Malfoy quit after the Buckbeak
> incident?

Maybe they needed Fantastic Beasts in first year for DADA. They ended up
apparently not using it in DADA first or second year, but they did use
it third year, with the boggarts and grindylows and hinkypunks and not
having gotten to werewolves yet, they're nearly at the end (hey,
alphabetical order!) and maybe Snape wasn't just being nasty when he
said that first years should have known this stuff, maybe Lupin was
giving them the official first year curriculum that they had been
cheated of.

Maybe Draco couldn't quit CoMC after Buckbeak any more than Ron and
Harry could quit Divination: they were taking only the minimum required
number of electives so they couldn't drop any of them. Hermione could
drop Divination and Muggle Studies because she was still taking more
than the minimum required number of electives without them. CoMC,
Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, are those all the electives she'd taking
after dropping Divination and Muggle Studies?

Kelly the Yarn Junkie wrote:

>  I don't think I understand what anyone
>  expected to see to represent
> > the spell that rebounded onto V
> > The Imperio curse, 

I think the curse that rebounded against V should have been represented
by a ghostly image of Harry himself (as baby, student, or adult) or of
V. Which of those would have weirded Harry out worse? 

Catherine wrote:

> Finally, do werewolf cubs exist?  Is the 
> condition genetic?  Or is it only passed 
> on by biting etc.???

FANTASTIC BEASTS says "Humans turn into werewolves only when bitten." It
doesn't say anything about inheriting the condition -- neither does it
say whether werewolves can have human children/wolf cubs (I'm inclined
to believe that female werewolves miscarry all pregnancies because the
transformation is too hard on a fetus -- I also believe that the
Animagus transformation, among all its myriad advantages over werewolf
transformation, safely transform the fetus along with its other). It
also doesn't say anything about whether silver has any special effect on
werewolves.

I agree with your point that either there are no werewolves in the
Forbidden Forest, or there are werewolves who live there all the time
but usually in human form, or there are werewolves who live elsewhere
but go to the Forbidden Forest each month for their transformation. I
believe that there are currently no werewolves in the Forbidden Forest,
altho' for a couple of years in the 1970s there was one werewolf who
lived mostly at Hogwarts but went to the Forbidden Forest each month
during his transformation: the rumors Draco heard about werewolves COUlD
be rumors that started from one of those 'close calls' that Lupin
mentioned during the foursome's animal adventures.

Prefect Marcus wrote:

> I have always explained it by the 
> following: "The first task is designed
> to test your daring."  GOF-AE p281.

> How daring would a simple summoning 
> charm be?  It would be like an olympic
> diver doing a simple half-turn.  Very
> safe, but not worth a whole lot of points.

But Harry DID do a Summoning Charm and got HIGH POINTS from all the
judges except Karkaroff, whose unfairness in this scoring I have always
assumed to be a little joke about the Soviet judges in the Olympics,
back when there was a Soviet Union.
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