Krum / romance /Half-bloods / Slytherin House / Grindelwald

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No: HPFGUIDX 38673

Aldrea wrote:

> I liked Krum also, but I don't see how he can be in the books again
> unless he transfers to Hogwarts(perhaps to be closer to Hermione?)

At the QWC, Ron said that Krum was only 18. If he were a normal 
Hogwarts student, he would have just finished school rather than 
having another year to go. It is possible that Durmstrang students 
are a different age than Hogwarts students, but I prefer to believe 
that Krum made an arrangement to go to school half-time, spending two 
years for his seventh year, in order to have time to play Quidditch 
with the National Team. So he should finish school at the end of GoF. 
So he would be free to come to Hogwarts as some kind of hanger-on 
(assistant flying teacher, foreign language tutor, independent 
researcher in the library) in order to join Dumbledore's team against 
the Dark Side. Or if he joined a British pro Quidditch team, he could 
live in Hogsmeade, maybe rent a room from a family there or at the 
Three Broomsticks.

> I wonder if wizards celebrate Valentine's Day? 

Gilderoy Lockhart made a Big Deal of it, with ugly dwarves in silly 
costumes delivering Valentine cards.

Penny wrote:

> Hermione, OTOH, isn't *currently* going to be too willing to 
> sublimate her own ambitions & successes to pacify an insecure 
> boyfriend.

Yes, that's why I like Hermione/Viktor, even tho' I don't think JKR 
is going to make it happen.

Ethanol Barbara wrote:

> In the real world, "half-bloods" (yes, I hate that word, too) often 
> have to struggle with prejudices. The way Draco treats "mudbloods" 
> one woud suppose he hates their descendants as well.

I very much get the impression that the wizarding bigots DON'T hate 
Half-bloods. Tom Marvolo Riddle was a Half-blood to the point where 
CoS had the working title of HP and the Halfblood Prince. Presumably 
the way that USAmerican white supremacists may be proud of happening 
to be descended from Mayflower colonists, but don't hate other white 
native-born Americans for not having as long an American ancestry. 
Maybe the cost for a Half-blood being accepted by the bigots is they 
have to diss their Muggle parent.

Mike Wiltse wrote:

> The real question should be "If Harry had wanted to go into 
> Slytherin, would the sorting hat have let him?"

If Harry had wanted to go into Slytherin when all he knew was that 
the Song said that Slytherins are ambitious, and the hat told him 
that being in Slytherin would help him become great, he would have 
been a different person than the Harry we know, the one who would 
rather have a normal life and not be fussed over than be a hero.

Brin wrote:

> Now what if Tom was created by Grindelwald? 

Ooo-hoo! We don't know that Grindelwald was German or European just 
because of his name; he COULD have been English. We don't know 
Grindelwald's first name and I believe we don't know Tom's mother's 
last name (I believe that naming her son Marvolo after her father 
means it was his first name, not the family surname.) 

So what if Grindelwald knew by his dark magic that the baby he 
planned to create had to be fathered by Muggle Tom Riddle Sr, so he 
cast an Imperius-type Love Spell on his own daughter to make her fall 
desperately in love with that git?

I have this suspicion that maybe Salazar Slytherin was also hungry 
for immortality, so that he also made himself so immortal that losing 
his body didn't kill him, but he had to hang around as a mist much 
longer than 13 years ... he had to hang around as a mist until he was 
able to possess the body of baby Tom Marvolo Riddle, too young to 
have developed values and preferences of his own (beyond crying for 
milk and fear of falling). So that Voldemort is a re-incarnation of 
Slytherin in a way that Grindelwald was not.