Sneakoscopes and Gred and Forge/Arabella Figg

[Nicole L.]

No: HPFGUIDX 42969

> Animagus_Raven throws off the invisibility cloak and
> shouts "Ahh, 
> Haaaa"
> looks confused and somewhat embarrassed
> "Sorry, I though you were professors Snape and
> Quirrel in an animated 
> conversation."

Can I just say that I truly enjoyed this grand
entrance?  Not only are you an animagus, you have an
invisibility cloak.  Brilliant!  :)

Animagus_Raven went on to say:
> 
> Notice that there is no `up to no good' on the
> clock.  Fred and 
> George's hands would probably be parked there
> permanently.  That 
> setting was probably removed.  On a related topic, I
> wonder how fast 
> a Sneakoscope would last around Fred and George?  It
> would probably 
> burn itself up rather quickly.

Wasn't Harry's Sneakoscope around Gred and Forge?  I
believe that it was an, as far as I know, it only went
off when Scabbers!Pettigrew was around.  This does
bring up an interesting question.  Could it be that
the Sneakoscope only detects people who are not
trustworthy in the malicious sense?  By this I mean
that it wouldn't detect harmless tricksters, but would
detect people who want to do actual harm to the owner.
 While Gred and Forge do have a very wicked sense of
humor and have been known to do things that aren't all
that nice, they have proven themselves worthy of
Harry's trust.  Anyway, I love Gred and Forge.  They
may very well be my favorite characters.  I know there
are listees out there who think that their pranks get
a little over the top but IMHO they are relatively
harmless.  Especially when I compare them to the
stories that my husband tells me of him and his
friends at that age.  They were throwing illegal
fireworks at one another and making flaming waterfalls
(pouring gasoline out of a container and lighting the
stream of gas with a match).  And this from a man who
turned out to be an accountant for a large
corporation!  Give me Gred and Forge any day. 

Animagus_Raven then posed the following question:
> 3)  Could Arabella Figg be Dumbledore's girlfriend? 
> Take that all 
> you Sirius girlfriend theorists.  I'm voting that
> `old' people are 
> old.

Okay, now is the time for me to say the thing that's
been nagging at the back of my mind throughout the
whole Arabella Figg thread.  In GoF, when Dumbledore
asks Sirius to round up the "Old Crowd", doesn't he
refer to her as "Arabella Figg"?  If she truly were
Sirius's girlfriend, wouldn't it have been more
natural for him to refer to her as "Arabella"?  It
just seems strange to me that Dumbledore would need to
refer to her by her first and last name.  Anyway, I
really don't like the whole Polyjuiced!Arabella
theory.  I think that she is an old woman.  Really,
it's extraordinary enough that she's been living as a
Muggle old woman all this time on Privet Drive without
Harry's knowing she is actually a witch.  I don't
think that it's necessary for there to be anything
more to it than that.

~Nicole, who was very puzzled to see a Yahoo! Group
devoted to fans of Legolas from LOTR and Draco Malfoy.
 What a weird combination!

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