Dragons and Floo Powder

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 32860

At 9:58 AM +0000 1/5/02, grey_wolf_c wrote:
>
>Canon says Draco's name means dragon (PS/SS). This is the true origin
>of the pararelism of my theory. Nothing else was intended.

Looking at FBaWTFT, which IIRC is considered canon, if secondary - 
there is only one American dragon species, two Eastern ones, and all 
the rest are Western.  One of the Eastern ones is Chinese and the 
other resides in New Zealand.  "Draco" is in fact Latin for "dragon." 
The native speakers of Latin would never have applied the term to a 
Japanese dragon, and in canon, there aren't any anyway.

Therefore, I think the idea that Rowling meant Neville's brief tour 
of duty as a canary as an indication of his future interactions with 
Draco based on an obscure Japanese legend involving Japanese dragons 
and a yellow bird is, to be blunt, stretching it.  :)


At 8:24 AM -0500 1/5/02, Edblanning at aol.com wrote:
>Can you floo in and out of Hogwarts? The head in the fire thing which Sirius
>uses seems to be related. No-one , as far as I can remember either considers
>that this may be how he gets into the castle, or equally, states that it is
>impossible, as we are told several times about dis/apparation.

There appears to be a "floo network" of fireplaces that can be 
reached by floo powder, as Arthur Weasley has to have a friend at the 
Floo Regulation Panel at the Ministry add the Dursleys' fireplace to 
the network for the afternoon to pick Harry up at the beginning of 
GoF.  If Hogwarts were on the network, I imagine that many students 
would prefer to travel in that manner, so I dobt it is, but perhaps 
there is an intranet between the fireplaces within Hogwarts, so that 
(for example) in an emergency McGonagall could floo up to the 
Divination classroom to deliver a message to the Gryffindor students.


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