Marauders learning to be animagi, SnapeFAQ, Ghosts, Baby Harry,

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 35732


--- gwendolyngrace <lee_hillman at urmc.rochester.edu>
wrote:
> 
> So why do you feel that his lycanthropy makes his
> ability to change
> forms different, now as opposed to then?
> 
> Is it because the wolf is so much a part of his
> nature, or is it
> because lycanthropy and self-transfiguration can't
> work together, or
> is it some other theory?
I've got a theory!
I don't think he can become an animagus (or if he
could, he'd be a wolf) because if he did, then
wouldn't it seem that being in another form would
prevent the transformation from happening, and thus he
would've been able to use becoming an animagus as a
cure for the monthly lycanthropy?

In other words, if he could be a bunny or even a
bobcat, would the moon have the same affect on him?
Perhaps *that* is the true mystery behind the
Shrieking Shack scene - that they'd transfigured Remus
into a fluffy bunny and were *convinced* that it was
going to work - and Sirius sent Snape down there to
*prove* to him that Remus wasn't dangerous or scary -
he was a harmless, fluffy bunny! But oops! It didn't
work! So Snape met up with a werewolf, when all Sirius
wanted him to find was a bunny rabbit!

Yoris wrote:
> This is the best snape review i ever read!!!
Everything about it is perfect,
> please let her write the snape FAQ!!! 

Erm. Maybe one of the mods should answer this, instead
of me (a longtime elf and FAQ writer (if I could ever
sit down and plough thru the 35000 messages to find
those few mentions of Malfoys)) but I'll take the
bait.
Gwendolyn Grace, who has a long history of excellent
Snape posts and Snapexpertise, is in the middle of
spending about 100+ hours writing the Snape FAQ. She's
ploughed through about 28,000 messages so far, and is
doing a thorough job on covering all the oft-discussed
topics revolving around the Potions Master.  She's
also an Elf here, and like all the elves and mods and
geists, spends a tonne of time making the back-end of
the HP4GU community sing - just like all of you are
going to when you read the wonderful FAQ she's putting
together, which will be out some time before Book V.
We think :) (:schnoogles gwen)

jklb66 wrote:
> I've always felt that AK 
> steals more than just the victim's life, and that it
gives whatever 
> it takes (soul, essence, power) to the dark
wizard/witch performing 
> the curse.  I think this could be a possible
explanation of why 
> Voldemort's inner circle are called "Death Eaters";
they  actually 
> feed on or absorb the power they steal from other
wizards/witches.  
> (For any of you who watched the tv series
"Highlander" this will 
> sound very familiar.)  Perhaps the 5 of Voldemort's
victims who were 
> released from him thanks to Priori Incantatem will
be able to rest 
> peacefully now.

Or perhaps they'll now be ghosts, free roaming, and
able to be of use to Harry - especially his parents -
in later books. JKR did say that eventually we'd learn
why some people became ghosts, and this would also be
a way for (a) more of the Marauder history to come
into play, and (b) Harry to learn more about his
family. I actually don't think she'll do this, because
it seems to *easy* for Harry to have Ghost!mom and
Ghost!dad lurking in perpetuity (although that would
put an end to SHIP debates for Harry - what better
romance killer could there be than having parents
prepared to pop through walls at any moment?). But
maybe they'll be waiting at Privet Drive and be able
to spend some time with him before they next *next*
great adventure.

Conquistas2000 wrote:
> How come nobody spilled the beans to Harry that he's
a wizard (before
> Hogwarts)?
> In SS/PS, the wizard folks recognize Harry (Tip
their hat, etc..), 
> and happens often enough that Harry notices it.  In
the 10 years, why
> didn't any of the wizards/witches strike up a
conversaion with Harry
> or tell of his origins?

I agree with those who say timing and circumstance.
Mrs Figg had reasons of secrecy, and nobody else was
able to get close enough for long enough to explain
anything. But he does accept things easily enough when
Hagrid tells him about them - and perhaps that's
because he has long-unthought-of childhood memories of
magic. An 11 year old isn't going to consciously
remember being 15 months old, but a 3 year old will -
and it's possible that Harry got through his early
years with the Dursleys by remembering things from
when he was younger. I've always been intrigued by the
image of Harry in his little cupboard, doing a lumos
spell by thought alone, or making his toys move, or
making a book read it to him. It's one of the reasons
I hope he's an extra-powerful wizard - I want him
to've been able to do these things as a wee one, to
make it less difficult to live the life he led. Poor
woobiekins.

heidi
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