[HPforGrownups] Just Wondering...Add Your Opinion...

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 32620

At 1:31 AM +0000 1/3/02, alihp719 wrote:
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>Is it significant that Fawkes' colors, red and gold, are the same as
>Gryffindor's? (I think so!)

Probably.  Hermione mentions that Dumbledore was in Gryffindor on the 
train in PS/SS; it makes sense that his pet would have the proper 
colors.

>Just how important are the house elves, and what kind of magic do
>they have?? (Dobby is my all time favorite character :) )

We don't know how important they are yet.  However, Dobby was able to 
levitate a giant violet dessert, close the passageway to Platform 9 
3/4, tamper with the enchantment on a bludger, and cast a jinx that 
flung Lucius Malfoy backwars down the stairs - all without a wand. 
Winky was somehow able to bind Crouch Jr. to her magically, again 
without a wand.  And the Hogwarts house-elves appear to be able to 
port dinners and dishes up a story, from the kitchen to the Great 
Hall, despite the anti-Apportation wards on Hogwarts.  So they must 
be pretty buff, magically.

>Why would Scabbers bite Goyle on the train to Hogwarts when he,
>Crabbe, and Malfoy are annoying Ron, Hermione and Harry? Wouldn't he
>like them considering their families are Voldemort's supporters as
>well?

Pettigrew serves Voldemort out of fear, not loyalty.  Moreover, he'd 
been thinking like a rat for over a decade at that point.  There he 
was, lying in a pile of candy, either eating to his stomach's content 
or having a nice little nap, and here this great pudgy hand comes 
down on him.  Why would he bother checking to see if it was the son 
of some other Death Eater before giving it a good nip?  He might not 
have recognized him, and likely wouldn't care even if he did.

>Who is the head of Ravenclaw? (This is probably in the book somewhere
>but I can't remember, and it's bothering me!)

Professor Flitwick, according to the Lexicon.

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