Filk - Pet - House Elves - full Moon - Snape/Hermione

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 26914

Susan Hall wrote:

> The Last Waltz
> (To the tune of Lily, Rosemary, & The Jack of Hearts)

Wow!

Catherine in California wrote:

> > For anyone who is interested, Narcissa's own
> > hand was Death, The Lovers  and the nine of
> > Swords, all reversed, but it was too difficult
> > to make that scan. 
> What does that mean?  I know almost nothing
> about the Tarot but I'm curious!

Death means a Major Change, not *necessarily* Catastrophic -- the Tower
is more Catastrophic. The Lovers means choice, except some artists draw
it to mean Love. The Nine of Swords --- it's been so long that I had to
go look, I had thought it was the ten swords piercing the bloody corpse
but actually it is the person waking up in bed with a nightmare of nine
swords. My beloved Morgan-Greer deck shows two bound hands rather than
showing the whole person and bed as does Rider-Waite. That Susan
troubled to specify that they were all Reversed, probably she is of the
faction that believes that a card being reversed (upsidedown to the
reader) means it is showing something Bad. There are other schools of
thought, including one that reversal doesn't matter.

Giving myself the pleasure of interpreting, Narcissa would have
interpreted that hand as meaning that she was about to have a major
catastrophe, specifically that her beloved (the Stag of Hearts) was
going to break up with her (choosing Lily instead) and leave her crying
alone.

Hey, SUSAN!!! Whose used James's Invisibility Cloak to end Lily's
engagement to Lucius? It ought to be James, using her own cloak to
reclaim his own girlfriend, but "It could hide from anyone // Except of
course the Jack of Hearts." he wouldn't be trying to hide from himself.

Saitaina wrote:

> I think the 'cat, owl, toad' thing is a 
> suggested pet rule and only for first years
> as Lee brought his spider in book one. 

It doesn't seem all that binding on first years, either: Ron was a first
year when he (as Lucy Austin has pointed out) brought Percy's old rat.

But there is a difference between bringing a rat, tarantula, or dog and
bringing a big black dog, pony, or hippogriff: the smaller pets are much
easier to conceal. Just put it in a shoebox during inspections and reply
on the kindness of prefects and teachers to pretend not to notice it at
other times. 

(My college allowed undergraduates to keep pet cats, but not dogs, in
our dorm rooms if we registered them for a $5 fee. Miao Chang from Hong
Kong had a little Pekinese dog which she registered as a cat. Another
girl (whose 
name is on the tip of my tongue even tho' I knew her better than Miao)
had a big terrier named Ladvy. Whenever the Dean of the Undergraduate
College saw Ladvy, she would pat him and say "Nice kitty" -- she had a
Great Pyrenee named Hume, must have been a dog lover.) 

Imagine trying to keep a Big dog, a pony, or a hippogriff in a five
person dorm room!

Rowena Grunnion-ffitch wrote:

> They are Brownies, or rather the descendants
> of Brownies who have been magically enslaved.
> They don't need pay, or pensions or vacations,
> they need the spells forcing them to continue
> to work for particular Wizardly families removed.  
(elsewhere) 
> This can and must be changed.

This is all very cool and I agree with you, and I expect Hermione would 
agree with you if you told her "Offering them clothes they refuse to
accept is irrelevant. Removing the spells that make them want to stay
enslaved is what would be effective" instead of calling her names. Which
better than my idea, which she would condemn scornfully, which is she
should have started a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to House
Elves to pass and enforce 
laws against wizards who torture their House Elves. 

HOWEVER, Hermione did just as much research as we did (rather more than
I did, what with all that time she spent in the library) and SHE read
wizarding books, not just Muggle books that get a lot of things wrong.

Rowena Grunnion-ffitch wrote:

> [Arthur] disapproves of the way Diggory
> and Crouch Sr. were treating Winky. This
> does not necessarily mean he is opposed
> to wizards having House elves just that
> he thinks they deserve some courtesy and
> consideration.

I want to think that Arthur is a really nice guy and all of the nice
things he says are sincere, but.... it COULD be that he pretends to
agree with Hermione as a diplomatic tactic to get her to Shut The Hell
Up Already. Just as the interaction in which he speaks kindly to Winky
while Amos is nastily interrogating her could be nothing but a well
practised "good cop, bad cop" routine.

Amy Z wrote:

> Why doesn't Lupin transform when
> the Boggart turns into the moon, then? 

I believed and still believe that the werewolf transformation is
controlled by the Phase of the Moon, not the Sight of a Moon (despite
the famous Shrieking Shack Flint). He transforms indoors at Full Moon.
He does not transform when a Boggart looks like a moon.

Hagridd wrote of Snape/Hermione:

> This is Child Pornography-- nothing more,
> nothing less. 

Not if she's over 18 in this story. I haven't read this story and am not
a fan of that ship, but she is over 18 is Sphynx's "Letter" (and, for
the record, he is still 20 years older than she is, that hasn't
changed).
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