Answers, questions......

[The Sparrow]

No: HPFGUIDX 55516

Dave W. wrote in the last digest:
  
I think that for the simple fact that Harry has not
been called a 
Mudblood by any Malfoy gives a clue to whether or not
Aunt Petunia is 
a squib. 

Me: I used to wonder about this too. I'm not sure if
Draco knows that much about Lily (based on
recollections of the top of my head). I don't have the
books with me but I don't recall anyone else except
Draco using the term, plus, I don't think he's said it
since CoS-suposedly the book with all the clues in
it). It's interesting to note here that Hagrid says
'There isn't a witch or wizard alive today that isn't
half-blood or less" (I'm sorry if that's not the exact
quote, I'm also even sorrier if I'm mixing up the
rewritten movie lines for the book!!) If this *is* in
the canon, then is Hagrid just being Hagrid again, or
does this say something immense for the Malfoys?
I agree with you that the Potters are obviously an old
family, as much as the Malfoys I'd say.(I think
perhaps that the Malfoys and the Potters are the
Montegues and Capulets of their time!) 
 After all, Lliy and James had quite a bit of gold in
Gringotts, and what kind of young man just out of
wizard school owns an invisibility cloak? 
I also wondered about the wonderfully easy acceptance
of Lily's witchiness by her parents- it made me think
that perhaps one of her parents is secretly a witch,
or at least a grandparent. 
That lead me to ask something else. Hagrid helped
Harry to get his school things, but what do (supposed)
Muggle families like Hermiones do to find Diagon
Alley? Do they get an instruction letter? Are there
perhaps 'guides' that you meet in The Leaky Cauldron?

I have a question which has no doubt been raised
before- In GoF (sorry can't give you exact quote)
Hermione-I think-says that the heads of the three
schools would be on the judging panel since they were
alive at the last one in 1794. That was over 200 years
ago, yet Dumbledore is only 150. This would also make
Karkaroff and madam Maxine over 200 years old as well.
I've also wondered about Hagrid's age, since he said
somewhere not too long after that he thought he'd
never be alive to see the Triwizard cup played again. 
Any ideas? JKR couldn't have made a mistake as easy as
that. 


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