Magical motives (Dursleys) & character list symbols

[saintbacchus]

No: HPFGUIDX 36369

Sirius Kase:
<<
How about his wife and her family? I tend to go a
little easier on Vernon than most around here. I think
he is extremely protective of his family especially
from what he sees as a powerful evil force that he
doesn't understand.
>>

I agree. If he'd actually met a magical person, I think
Vernon would know more about the magical world (for
instance, that cloaks aren't just "some stupid new
fashion" as he thinks in the beginning of PS). He seems
to know pretty much nothing about it, and as we all
know, ignorance breeds fear. Vernon may not believe in
imagination, but that doesn't mean it doesn't run wild
without him even realizing it.

If Vernon has one good point, it's got to be his
protectiveness. It's not played up in the books, but I
found it rather touching. And if it extended beyond his
immediate family, it would be even more so. =P


<<I wonder if he ever met James and Lily?>>

I think he has met Lily and James - PS says that "they"
haven't seen L&J for some years, implying that at one
point or other, V&P have met with J&L. Presumably
someone as straightlaced as Vernon would want to meet
his future wife's family, anyway. However, whatever he
thought of them would almost certainly have been colored
by whatever Petunia had already told him. He probably
met Lily with a specific picture in mind; If Lily had a
hair out of place, that would be confirmation of his
mental picture. If she didn't, well, she must be hiding
something.


Nyarth:
<<
So i suppose the N, D, (D) refers to their breeding,
but I can't see how. We know Justin and Hermione are
muggle-born, they both have an [N]. The star of David and
the circled star of David must be hal-blood and
full-blood, but I don't know which is which.

Interestingly, whichever symbol means half-blood, there's
half-bloods in Slytherin (look at Bulstrode and Goyle -
different symbols). I've always wondered whether or not
muggle-borns get sorted into Slyth - some people assume
they aren't. But the traits of ambition and cunning are
hardly exclusive to the wizard born.
>>

True, but canon says specifically that Slytherin hated
muggle-borns (that's why he left Hogwarts). I suspect
that the Sorting Hat knows this and keeps anyone with
less than a "proper" amount of wizard blood out of
Slytherin. Harry is kind of a peculiar case, though, so
I could be wrong.

Meanwhile, I'll go out on a limb and suggest that the
uncircled Star is half-blood. That's probably enough for
Slytherin (or if not, it might have needed adjusting as
more and more halfblood students started showing up).
Millicent Bulstrode the cat lover thus shares her breeding
with a number of Hufflepuffs, whereas Crabbe and Goyle the
Death Eaters' sons are more "pure." I suggest that the N
stands for "Non-magical" or maybe just "No."

BTW, Li Su = Cho Chang? If not, then what's with all the
Asian students in Ravenclaw? (I'm only partly facetious
here.)

--Anna