[HPforGrownups] Opinions on Ten Big Mysteries

[Catherine Keegan]

No: HPFGUIDX 26281

At 10:22 PM 9/18/01 +0000, you wrote:
>1.  Is Snape a vampire, half-vampire, or just a wizard?

I think he's just a wizard (who used to be a DE).

>2.  Among Snape, Bagman, Karkarov and Fudge, who are Death Eaters,
>and which DE is too cowardly to return and which DE has left forever?

It sounds like Snape was the one who has left forever.  Karkarov is the too 
cowardly guy and Bagman might have been one.  I can almost see him hanging 
around the dangerous guys (dressed in his Quidditch robes, of course!).

>3.  In PoA, was Lupin simply sleeping on the train, or did Dumbledore
>ask him to take the train to protect Harry?

I'm with the camp that he was taking the train because it was cheap or free.

>4.  How many students are at Hogwarts?

I'll go with what I read in a JRK interview: ca. 1000

>5.  Does Snape really want the DADA job?

Hmmm.  I think he likes what he's doing but he'd like to be offered it.

>6.  Does Trelawney have any predictive powers aside from the two
>correct predictions Dumbledore acknowledges?

I think she has abilities but they're not very controllable.  She must have 
something or she'd be somewhere else.

>7.  In GoF, why is Wormtail performing magic with Voldemort's wand,
>and does Wormtail still have his own wand?

I think he lost it during the explosion, too.

>8.  Are you convinced that you cannot apparate on the Hogwarts
>grounds, or is this a red herring?

Great question!  How does Lucius get there?  Did he take the train?  How 
about Fudge?  Is there a portkey in Hogsemeade?  Hmmm.  I think I'll go 
with can't apparate on Hogwarts' grounds.

>9.  Why don't Fred, George or Harry see or notice Pettigrew on the
>Marauder's Map?

mumble.  I need to think about this one awhile.

>10.  In what order and by whom are James, Lily and Harry attacked?
J, L and then H.

Thanks Laura!  What a great list.

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