Lucius' Influence/Muggle Magic/Barty Jr!Moody Teaching Harry/Rita Skeeter

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Carol said:
"Lucius is concerned about the MoM conducting a raid on his house 
since in GoF he is trying to sell stuff he'd rather not have found in 
his house should there be a raid."
-and-
"Could those raids for Muggle things be a cover up for what the MOM 
is really looking for -- evidence of Dark Arts?"

That raid thing didn't really pan out did it? I'm wondering as I was 
reading that maybe we'll see more about this in the future, now that
Voldemort is back, and we'll be seeing more evidence of the Dark 
Arts? Or was it just a minor detail? hmmm...I mean, I can understand 
the MoM wanting to check things out every once in a while but this 
just *screams* "Cops," like they had reason to suspect (other than 
Lucius being a known DE) that something was going on.

I'm sorry, I can't remember who said:
> Religious magic and magic in HP books
> are obviously not the same magic, but because we
> use the same word, such conflicts may arise.

very brief so as to avoid OT and Banned Topics and Howlers, oh my!:
I'm thinking of Pagans when I see the term religious magic and they 
generally spell it "magick" so as to avoid being compared to pulling-
rabbit-from-hat magic, and--in this case--HP magic, and possibly 
therefore avoiding confusion/conflicts. Just my 2 cents...

On Barty Jr-as-Moody Teaching Harry:

I am having a hard time thinking that Voldemort, with all of his 
power, couldn't know about Priori Incantatem.
....that's all I have to say about that...but...

At the end of GoF, when Barty Jr. was given the Veritaserum, he 
mentions the Marauder's Map and says that Harry saw Crouch's name (in 
Snape's office) and just thought it was the Sr. That leads me to 
think that, even tho he was taking the Polyjuice Potion, his real 
name would show up on the Map, right? Maybe that can be filed under 
the burning question of how come nobody ever discovered PP's name as 
PP!Scabbers on the Map...Or did he not drink the Potion for a short 
time so that he really *was* Crouch Jr.? 

And finally:
Has anyone thoutht that maybe Rita Skeeter's with the "Dark Side," 
since her articles seem to quote the Slytherins a lot? Or could it 
just be that she'll talk to anyone for a scoop, doesn't matter who, 
and they're too eager to give her dirt? 

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*having just finished re-reading the books and proud of the fact that 
she ventured out in ListLand to make her first post while being so 
new to the group*