Rubeus' Serendipities

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 39696

Nearly Brainless Connection:

I was thinking about COS the other day (opportunities to read the actual *text* are rare) and realised a funny parallel.

Five hundred years before, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington was almost beheaded and almost killed (in the sense that though technically dead he is still around as a ghost)

Fifty years before, Hagrid's wand was almost broken (even if it's in separate pieces it still has some function) and he was almost expelled (in the sense that though technically expelled he is still around).

Does it mean anything?

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Mothers and Dragons:

In 1932, the Ilfracombe Incident occurred, in which a dragon flew over a Somerset beach, requiring many Muggles (with the possible exception of Dodgy Dirk) to be memory charmed (see FB).  If we accept the Lexicon chronology, Hagrid's mother Fridwulfa abandoned him and his father at about this time.

Coincidence?  Did the dragon carry her off, and Hagrid and his Dad then get caught in the memory-charmfest?  I think Rita Skeeter implies she is still alive but does she really know?

Or is there a romantic explanation: every time a giantess loses her temper, a wee baby dragon is born... ?

David


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