SecretKeeper/pets/Voldie's wand/shipping the Trio

Tue Dec 24 05:27:32 UTC 2002

No: HPFGUIDX 48769

Lindsay wrote:

<< personally if Harry has a secret keeper I think it's Snape. >>

I can do no better than to quote Steve bboy_mn: "Just one problem, 
Harry's wearabouts is not a secret. ... So, there couldn't be a 
secret keeper because it's obviously wasn't kept secret."

Snuffles wrote:

<< But if Harry were to keep Sirius as a pet, the rules at Hogwarts 
would have to change., i.e. eash student is permitted to bring with 
him if he wishes a cat, a rat, an owl, or a toad. >>

Actually the letter in PS says a cat or an owl or a toad, so Percy 
and Ron's rat is already a pet who is not mentioned in the letter. 
Lee Jordan's tarantula isn't on the list either, altho' some people 
have suggested that he didn't keep it as a pet after that first 
Hogwarts Express trip. I've always felt that a student having a dog 
the size of a cat would not get any aggravation about it from the 
authorities, but that isn't quite the same thing as keeping a dog 
the size of a horse in a shared dorm room. Is there a barn for pet 
horses?

<< If there are the quoted 1000 students at Hogwarts, and each has 
some kind of animal... where do all of these animals go to the 
bathroom? (snip) Surely, Filch is not responsible for cleaning up 
after all of them. He gets angry if there is mud on the floor of the 
enterance hall. >>

Before GoF, I assumed that students have to clean up their own pet's 
litter box, but since GoF, I have assumed that the House Elves do it.

rinceceol wrote:

<< how *DID* Voldemort get his wand back? Where has it been hiding 
these 13 years? >>

In my non-canonical opinion, Voldemort took Peter with him to the 
Potter house. When Voldemort was vaporized, Peter picked up his 
fallen wand. Peter hid Voldie's wand somewhere, and picked it up 
again on his way to Albania. I believe that any wand an Animagus is 
holding, as well as his clothes and wallet and everything else, 
transform into skin and fur of his animal form and transform back 
when he transforms back, so travelling to Albania in rat form 
wouldn't rule out taking the wand with him. 

Jim Ferer wrote:

<< What I can't imagine is any of them getting a mate outside the 
Trio. After you've spent your adolescence in a maelstrom worthy of 
a Norse saga, how can an ordinary person compete? >>

It seems there are a number of non-ordinary people in the wizarding 
world. I don't want to pair off any one of the Trio with Dumbledore, 
but there may be other defeaters of major Dark Wizards hanging 
around, who are less old and/or less annoying beatific than 
Dumbledore. I don't want to pair off any one of the Trio with Snape, 
but he's in the same maelstrom as they are. 

When I'm a Harry/Ron and Hermione/Ginny shipper, or when I'm a 
Harry/Cho, Hermione/Viktor, Ron/OC shipper, I figure that Ginny, or 
Cho, Viktor and the OC, will have to get close enough to the Trio to 
have a major supporting role against V at least by the middle of book 
6. Thus being in the same maelstrom and bearing the same scars. 

Any argument that any one of the Trio marries (permanently) someone 
who was an ally in the struggle against Voldemort is a direct 
contradiction of the faction that *insists* that Our Heroes will 
not marry (permanently) a person they knew during their school years, 
just because real people in the Muggle world don't do that.