[HPforGrownups] re: Tempting Harry (was book 5 predictions)/ VOLDEMORT/ DADA professers/ Binns/

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 43770

Katze writes:

> I also don't think Voldemort will offer Harry's parents for two reasons.
First,
> he tried this in book one, and it didn't sway Harry.

Can you point me to this in the book?  I almost brought it up earlier, but
couldn't find it so I was afraid I'd been "movieized."  :o

> Second, Rowling has stated
> in interviews that once a person is dead in the Potterverse, there is no
coming
> back. Voldemort was never completely dead and thus allowed him to be
"reborn",
> but Harry's parents are completely dead.

Which I also read in a JKR interview.  That a live Lily and James will never
be seen.

> Swimsalone wrote:
>
> << that James' son would be his downfall, and therefore had to kill
> Harry and James. Lily didn't have to die if James was killed, >>

Catlady responded:

> Unless Lily happened to be pregnant with another son at the time.
> That is just a nitpick and not a plot suggestion.

I think the problem with that is Voldemort's hesitance to kill her and his
repeated orders to "Stand aside."  If she had been pregnant, I think she too
would have been one of the original targets.  So if she was pregnant, I
don't think he knew, or he'd have killed her straight away.

Cindy wonders:

> if Snape wants the DADA job because Snape
> used to have that position before Snape went Bad

If he did, he was awfully young!  If he's 35 as far back as SS/PS, that
makes him 25 when he went back to the good side.  He'd have had to be with
Voldemort a few years at least, so it gets rather tight on the time
schedule.  Still possible, I suppose, if he went into teaching straight out
of school.  If there is truly no "university" equivalent for wizards and
witches to study further.

Melody writes:

> He [Professor Binns] just drolls on and on in a monotone voice that puts
all to sleep.
> The fact he can make Goblin revolutions so boring is great testiment
> to that fact.  A true professor of history does not just tell you what
> happens but paints the world it happened in wondrous technicolor.

I personally think that Binns is put in as a joke on the sterotypical
"boring" history professor.  Myself, I always loved history.  But some
people, well, they need more entertainment.  I think it's a note of sarcasm,
that even a ghost could teach it.

Richelle

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