lion-eagle/Map/V changing wand/prefects/DE names/halfblood/TMR-Harry resemb

Sun Dec 29 09:31:50 UTC 2002

No: HPFGUIDX 48926

Theresnothingtoit wrote:

<< Why is the symbol of Gryffindor a lion and not a griffen? (snip) 
why is the symbol of *raven*claw an eagal? >>

IIRC someone wrote a long time ago that this is normal heraldry: the 
lion and the eagle are the royal animals, king of beasts and king of 
birds, so proud people choose them for their arms. 

Kristen wrote:

<< It is also possible that the map was still in Sirius's file when 
the twins found it. They only saw something sticking out and didn't 
notice where it was located. >>

In PoA, the twins said: "we couldn't help noticing a drawer in one of 
his filing cabinets marked Confiscated and Highly Dangerous. (snip) I 
whipped the drawer open, and grabbed -- this."

jmho asked: 

<<So, Can an owner just change his wand without some negative side 
effects? Didn't Mr. Ollivander say that each wand is unique to his 
owner? So, he must have given the best possible wand to Voldemort. 
Thus, Voldemort can't possibly get a better wand now? (or can he?)>>

Ollivander said: "We use unicorn hairs, phoenix tail feathers, and 
the heartstrings of dragons. No two Ollivander wands are the same, 
just as no two unicorns, dragons, or phoenixes are quite the same. 
And of course, you will never get such good results with another 
wizard's wand." He *didn't* say that there is only one wand that 
each wizard can use. I think it's like shoes: the wand has to fit the 
particular wizard's magic like the shoes have to fit the particular 
wizard's feet. So Voldemort could possibly get a better wand, or at 
least one equally as good and not containing Fawkes's feather, maybe 
by having a wand custom-made to suit him, IF wand-makers can control 
the "fit" of the wand they're making and IF he can find an adequately 
skilled Dark Side wand-maker.  

Tzvi of Brooklyn asked: 

<< We are all pretty sure that Hermione will be made prefect. Are 
there only one prefect per year? However, we all know Harry is always 
special. Does this mean that he won't be made prefect? >>

I believe the theory that there is one boy prefect and one girl 
prefect for each House in each year. So if Harry is the Gryffindor 
boy prefect for Class of 1998, that means Ron isn't: one more thing 
for him to be jealous about. 

Otoh, we did have Molly complaining that Fred and George hadn't been 
made prefects; if Fred and George were less troublesome OR had better 
grades, would the school authorities have flipped a coin for which 
one to make prefect? Or made an exception for twins by choosing TWO 
prefects?

For that matter, if Fred and George had been able to put their names 
into the Goblet of Fire, could it have chosen one of them without the 
other as Champion? 

Tzvi of Brooklyn wrote: << he claims that Voldermort solely knows the 
names of all the Death Eaters. When they return to his side he simply 
introduces them all. >>

He didn't introduce ALL of them, only the ones who had already been 
charged and cleared. We have Fudge's word for the latter: "You are 
merely repeating the names of those who were acquitted of being Death 
Eaters thirteen years ago!" and the narrator's word for the former: 
"Some of the Death Eaters he passed in silence, but he paused before 
others and spoke to them." 

Snazzzybird wrote: << Now his statement that they're both half-bloods 
is inaccurate: Lily Evans Potter was Muggle-born, but she was still a 
witch.>> 

GoF, the chapter where Hagrid is outed as half-giant, when the Trio 
go to visit him hiding in his hut, Hagrid said to Harry: "I'd love 
yeh ter win, I really would. It'd show 'em all ... yeh don't have to 
be pureblood ter do it."	

Snazzzybird quoted Tom Riddle to Harry: 

<< "We even *look* something alike." >>

If TMR and Harry's resemblance indicates that they're related, then 
they must be related through JAMES, because everyone is always going 
on about how much Harry resembles his father... H'mm. Maybe why 
Voldemort was eager to kill James and Harry and not insistent on 
killing Lily is because the prophecy said he would be destroyed by 
his own descendent... 

That would have to be a separate prophecy, not the one about a boy 
born in summer of 1980 who will have special powers or win the war 
for his father's side or whatever, that inspired Voldemort to order 
his followers to procreate... altho' since the only Death Eater 
children we know about in Harry's year are Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, a 
Nott is sorted, and it could be that one of the illegible Ms on JKR's 
list of students is MacNair, it occured to me that it might have been 
LUCIUS rather than Voldemort who discovered the prophecy and ordered 
his followers (a subset of V's followers) to procreate. I don't KNOW 
that Nott and MacNair are Lucius's followers; the circle in the 
graveyard has Nott standing in Goyle's huge shadow, and perhaps 
MacNair right on the other side of Crabbe, but Lucius is separated 
from them at least by a gap that should contain the Lestranges... 