[HPforGrownups] A dumb question/ Snape's child/ Molly's Memory/ Arthur Weasley

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 43261

Eloise writes:

> Champions) and not Harry touching the Triwizard Cup? Or was Crouch/Moody
just
> too arrogant to consider the possibility that he couldn't guarantee Harry
> getting there first?
> It very nearly happened, didn't it? If Cedric had been less noble about
the
> whole thing, he alone would have been transported to the Graveyard. What
> then?

Well, that's an interesting problem.  A few solutions.  1) As you say
Moody/Crouch may not have thought of such a thing.  2) Perhaps it was rigged
to activate only upon Harry's touch?  Thus anything touching it would be
apparated, but only if Harry too were touching it?  Don't know if that's
possible, but also don't know that it's not possible, so maybe.  Other
possibilities???

Arcum writes (on possibility of Snape having a child):

> Oh, I could see it. A lot of his nastiness I see as having acrued over
time. It could be good > for a few bangs, too. Suppose
> Snape had a child who died as a direct result of DE activities? That
> could easily have been what pushed him over to Dumbledores court.

Hmm, what if the woman and unborn child were killed either by Voldemort for
some stupid reason or as you say, resulting from DE activities?  Snape
could've kept up the front to support Voldemort, yet inside a hatred would
be growing stronger all the time.

now Leon says:
> The only problem with the theory is that Dumbledor says in GOF that Snape
> changed over from Voldemort's team well in advance of his (Voldy's)
> downfall, and was a double-agent at great personal risk. Even 9 months
> (assuming Lily was due at that moment, which she wasn't; and assuming
Snape
> could know immediately at the moment of conception - still all of that
does
> not count as "well in advance".

Where does it say "well in advance?"  Sorry, can't recall.  Doesn't mean it
isn't there, understand, my brain's just a bit fried.

Uncmark writes:

> Hagrid was expelled and became groundskeeper about 50 years before
> Harry's Time (placed at 1943 by the Harry Potter Lexicon) So who was
> Ogg and when did Molly and Arthur attend Hogwarts?

Actually, according to Tom Riddle in the diary, and this much he should've
known, I think, "Only the Transfiguration teacher, Dumbledore, seemed to
think Hagrid was innocent.  He persuaded Dippet to keep Hagrid on and train
him as groundskeeper."

Note it says *train* him as groundskeeper.  I should imagine that at a place
as big as Hogwarts it would take quite a while to train him.  I'm also 95%
sure that someplace it says assistant groundskeeper or some such thing, but
can't find it now that I need to.

Oh, and I also think Arthur Weasley will be MoM by the end of book 7.  Or at
the end will be made MoM.  Just wanted to throw that in.  Love those
Weasleys!  Well, most of them.

Richelle