[HPforGrownups] re: Lavendar's rabbit / TimeTurner-MaraudersMap / Chamberpot Room

[Jedi Knight Jo]

No: HPFGUIDX 36048

All the stuff in arrows: Catlady

>>There is evidence that Lavender is Muggle-born, so getting a letter 
from her parents to her would take more than one owl. (My theory: 
Post UK to an address on Charing Cross road next door to the Leaky 
Cauldron, where it is picked up once a day and taken to the Owl Post 
Office in Diagon Alley, where the outer envelope is opened, the money 
in the outer envelope is used to pay for the owl, and the inner 
envelope, addressed to the real recipient (Lavender Brown, Hogwarts 
School, Scotland) is given to the owl.)<<

Hey I really like this theory - it's a good idea.  I've always wondered about Lavender and Co actually - whether they're Muggle born or not and how they get around the owl post thing if they are. 

>>Being Muggle-born might also explain why she didn't take Binky to 
school with her: her parents were ignorant enough to think that the 
part of the Hogwarts letter that says students may bring a cat OR an 
owl OR a toad meant what it said, and that she wasn't allowed to 
bring some other kind of pet.<<

I can see even the wizarding people thinking this.  I mean, there must be a reason why they actually put in the letter that you can bring a cat or a rat or a toad and not just say that you are allowed one pet.  I have a feeling (having seen this discussed before) that the letter Harry got was probably the one that wizarding parents get to tell them their children are magical enough to have been accepted - their parents would already know about the existence of Hogwarts so they would know what to do next.  I figured Muggle parents got more information and/or a visit from a staff member.

>>You'd think, tho', that by third year, she'd have seen enough of Ron's 
rat, Lee's tarantula, and other non-standard pets to know that no one
would give her aggravation about bringing her bunny to schoool.<< 

Scabbers was always something I wondered about too.  It would seem that the Weasley parents are familiar enough by now to know that a rat isn't an approved pet (at least for a first year - Scabbers was originally Percy's so I wondered if maybe older students are allowed different pets), but they let Ron take him anyway.  Similarly, I never thought about Lee Jordan having the giant tarantula as a pet (maybe a new friend for Aragog?), I always thought it was to play a nice joke one someone (or a few someones) - his friendship with the Twins means he has to have a sense of humour and his Quidditch commentary shows it even more (how did he get that job anyway?).  It never even occurred to me that the tarantula was a pet rather than a prank waiting to happen. :)

>>To me, the bigger mystery is how Fred and George NEVER saw Peter 
Pettigrew hanging arouund with Ron. S'okay, they had no need to look 
into the Gryffindor Class of 1998 boys' dorm, so they didn't see Ron 
in bed with a male name they didn't recognise, but how did they never 
see Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Peter wandering the Castle together?<<

Good point.  Maybe it's because they never spied on Little Brother?  Maybe they just never noticed Ron and Co when they were looking at the map to avoid being caught in trouble by a teacher?  If they're intent on, say. what Snape is doing where, it's fairly safe to say that they might miss Ron when he's likely to be mixed in with a load of other students taking a class or eating or going through the corridors.

>>"Q: If you could travel to Hogwarts for an hour, what would you do 
there? 
JKR: Go straight into a certain room, mentioned in book four which 
has certain magical properties Harry hasn't discovered yet!"  

And when this statement was being debated, someone made a plausible 
argument that she was referring to the chamberpot room. Of course, 
other people made equally plausible arguments for the prefects' 
bathroom, the little room next to the Great Hall, and the kitchen.<<

How about the room where the wands were 'weighed' as part of the Tournament?

--Jo




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