Percy/Molly/Hermione, IFOs, and the Halfblood Question (again)

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 35949

At 5:20 AM +0000 3/1/02, serenadust wrote:
>
>Firstly, have you ever actually had to deal with anyone like
>Hermione in the first year?

Um, other than myself at the same age?  ;)

>Remember her response to the death of
>Lavenders rabbit? She consistantly favors being right over being
>kind.

On the two-out-of-three scale - true, kind, and necessary - I think 
the rabbit incident qualified as both true and necessary, and I think 
Hermione saw it that way, too.  She's usually quite perceptive of, 
say, Neville's feelings.

>I really don't dislike Hermione on the whole, but I don't really see
>her as a paragon of all virture either.

Well, of course not.  Rowling wouldn't be so clumsy as to write a 
true Mary Sue, now, would she?  ;)



At 8:02 AM -0500 3/1/02, Edblanning at aol.com wrote, in response to my confusion:
>>  (me)
>  > Er - which act?  Ron and Harry stealing the car, or Sirius's "framing"?
>>
>
>The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Act, the one which means that cars aren't
>supposed to fly. Sorry, I thought it was clear that I was suggesting an
>answer to your question,

Ah, oh, oh, you mean the Act!  Sorry, if you'd capitalized it I'd've 
understood what you meant.  Eep.  Sorry.  Although, I think that's a 
set of laws rather than a single edict - Misuse of Muggle Artifacts 
has a whole Office at the MoM.  The Act that gets mentioned is the 
Muggle Protection Act, and I can't find anyplace in CoS (*sound of 
wildly flipping pages*) where it spells out exactly what that Act 
entails.



At 1:26 AM +0000 3/2/02, saintbacchus wrote:
>I'm on my second read-through now
>- just finished CoS - so I've probably missed something,
>but I don't recall anyone who has a name (besides Seamus)
>being half-blood.

Er, Tom Riddle and Harry for two.  Hagrid and Madame Maxime probably 
count, unless the average giant can do magic.

According to Ron in CoS 7 (while I had it out), "most wizards these 
days are half-blood," so a number of the names we know probably are; 
it just hasn't become an issue.  Perhaps the Patils are the product 
of a scion of an ancient magical heritage and a Muggle-born.

It'd be amusing to find that Dumbledore was a halfblood himself, son 
of a powerful witch and a befuddled Muggle male, just like Voldemort. 
Oh, wait.  Too obvious, isn't it?  If it were true, Lucius would have 
mentioned it by now.  Hmm.  McGonigall, then.  Or - what if the 
dreadful skeleton Snape's been hiding in his heritage closet is 
neither vampire nor dementor, but plain old Muggle-born?

Do half-bloods pass muster with the Death Eaters?  Voldemort knows 
that Lily was Muggle-born, but he seems willing to try to charm Harry 
into the fold in PS/SS.  Draco bothers to find out whether Harry's 
parents were wizards, but doesn't ask how far back their families go.

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