[HPforGrownups] Molly/Scabbers/Cho's Name

[Laura Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 35974

Eric Oppen said:
>I have to agree with the poster who criticized Molly Weasley for forgetting
>that Ron doesn't like corned-beef.  My own mom ran a nursery school for
>thirteen years, and could rattle off details about every kid in a given
>class.

Still, that's just how your mom's memory works.  My own has *never* seemed able to remember that I have despised tuna-fish sandwiches with a passion ever since I first laid eyes on them.  Yet she still makes them.  It's like she stockpiles those Chicken of The Sea cans especially for when I'm home.  It's almost as if she secretly hopes that if she offers them to me often enough, one day I'll just capitulate and try them.  It's the same with pecans.  She's always sending them to me.  I end up giving them out to random people in my wing.  However, my mother is not neglectful, nor does she even have that many kids (only 3 of us).  It's just her memory doesn't catch those kind of things.  Personally, I think it's pretty funny, although a little irritating.  Myself, I can remember the most obscure facts about a subject I have briefly encountered, yet I couldn't tell you either of my parent's birthdays.  It's not that I don't *care*.  It's just that my mind is not adept at storing that type of information.  I think it's probably the same with Molly.

Catlady said:
>She's only making *four* to-go lunches, even if they all have 
>to be the same kind of sandwiches, even if they have to be whatever 
>was on sale cheap or leftover whether or not the kids like it, how 
>could she not have enough time to put an anti-dessication charm (or 
>Saran Wrap Spell) on the sannies? 

Heh, if the Weasley's house is anything like mine (and I really think it is), Molly is doing *allot* more than making sandwiches.  I shudder to think what my mother would get like in a similar circumstance *ducks*.  Anyway, I don't think the sandwiches were dry because she didn't wrap them properly, just because corned beef sandwiches generally *are* dry -- unless you put butter or something on them *makes a face*.

Pacific said:
>But are the things that damage "Muggle" rats the same things that
>damage magical rats?  Skipping games (jump rope) played with tails
>seems to indicate that magical rats are...different <g>.  Wizarding 
>pets as a whole seem much tougher and smarter than their non-magic
>counterparts.

Yes, but even Harry thinks that Scabbers (unless he is hiding some sort of magical power) is probably getting old and nearing the end of his life.  It's specifically stated that S. has never showed himself to be anything other than a normal rat.

Greyshi Said:
>Based on the name alone and no other clues 
>I thought Cho was Korean. Chang is a Korean last name as well and Cho 
>is a Korean name.

Okay, so is their any associated meaning to "Cho" or "Chang" in Korean?? (*flinches* there probably is no language called Korean is there?  Please excuse my ignorance, you know what I mean -- whatever language they speak there)  Perhaps not a direct meaning (The way the name Petunia means a certain type of flower), but maybe a indirect meaning, they way my own name means something like "crowned victoriously in laurel" referring to a pre-medieval custom, or the name Smith means blacksmith and the name Granger means (I think?) a farmer.

laura

   


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