the DEW DROP Hands, an apology, and bit of TBAY

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 46497

JOdel asked:
 >Who says Flitwick & Trelawney don't have assigned hands?

Well for now, only we say.  ;)  They very well could.  Just in my
theory, the people that have a dedicated watch hand are the ones that
are linked to Dumbledore's plans outside of school.


>Does Dumbledore only use this watch for special events, or does he
>carry it every day?

Hard to say.  It could be his "old crowd" watch, and he has another
"school work" watch.  After all, the Weasley's have two wizard clocks
in their house that have two different purposes.


>If it's an everyday watch it would make a lot more sense for the
>hands to represent Hogwarts staff. Which Hagrid is. He was tracking
>Hagrid, not Harry.

That is what I found a bit vague.  Dumbledore could of been looking at
the 'Hagrid hand' to know Hagrid was late, or he could of been looking
at the 'Harry' hand to see that Harry was late and thus also was
Hagrid.  It would seen odd for Dumbledore to say Harry is late since
Harry had no say in their punctuality.


> After all, wouldn't the Headmaster need to be able to find any
>member of the staff at any time regardless of whatever ememrgencies
>are likely to blow up in a school of magic?

True.  Though Dumbledore did send that silver arrow to Hagrid to get
him.  And now I wonder, how did he know Hagrid was there?  Yes, the
light in the window or smoke in the chimney could of been a giveaway,
but he did *know* Hagrid was definitely there.


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Dominique Medal wrote:
>The watch does not follow people. It is instead some sort of
>celestial watch. I don't know how it works, but I imagine that magic
>is heavily involved.  While he may have assigned planets to various
>people, this is not supported by canon.  All canon seems to imply is
>that Hagrid was supposed to be at the Dursleys' by a certain time,
>which Dumbledore can tell from his celestial watch.

Well, Dominique we are not told what exactly this watch is.  It could
be celestial, I agree.  But the possibility that it could be similar
to the wizard clocks at the Weasley's house is also there.  As you
pointed out, Dumbledore looked at the watch and saw that Hagrid is
late.  Now he could of saw that by the time or by the fact that
Hagrid's (or Harry's) hand of the watch was pointing at the
area/planets that means the person is late.

Either way, Dumbledore did expect Hagrid there by a certain time, and
by either watch reading he was late.

And, I don't believe the planets are what the people are assigned.
With the Weasley clocks, the hands are assigned to the family members.
 Now Dumbledore's watch has twelve hands, so I theorize they are for
twelve different people.  The planets are just a type of celestial
language that Dumbledore is reading to discover the state of the
assigned hand character.

Hope that clears up the DEW DROP theory there for you.


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Elkins' ADMIN post over in the Movie site reminded me that I forgot to
do this yesterday:

I wrote that:
>>Iris wrote:<<
>>If you did torture the person who tortured you I would say that that
>>was morally wrong. **snip** I can see the argument if he uses the
>>AK spell, but maybe he'll use Gryffindor's sword.

Then Iris pointed out:
>It wasn't me. I don't know who wrote it, mais c'était pas moi, >m'dame!

Iris, I am so sorry about that.  ~Katey wrote that quote.  I did not
mean to put words in your mouth that you did not intend to say.
Forgive me.


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Catlady wrote:
> Melody TBAYed (at the Moon?):

<< "I don't know. I was happily walking when I think the tree
attacked me." >>

> Was it a Whomping Willow? Is there a theory named WHOMPING WILLOW?


I did leave that rather vague, didn't I?  Good.  :)  Think of the Old
Man Willow in the LotR: FotR.  It is kind of a play of that.

Kind of.  ;)

What is important though is that I am recovering well in the Safe House.

So my question is what does "at the moon?" mean?  I am at a loss
there.  Could someone post or email me with the translation.  Did I
break a TBAY rule?  Is there even rules for TBAY?


Melody