Harry Lives With / The Fountain of Magical Brethren / The Hanged Man

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Martha fakeplastiKcynic wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/86709 :

<< contemplating writing a book called "Harry lives with Sirius and
Remus" ;-) >>

"Harry Has Two Godfathers" at
http://azkabanslair.slashcity.org/HarryHasTwoGodfathers.htm or
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/Marcelle1/2godfathers.html or
http://legato_bluesummers.tripod.com/fanfics/two_godfathers.htm or
a whole mess of other archives (I Googled for it)

steve bboy_mn wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/86784 :

<< I think the significance [of the centaur, goblin, and House Elf
statues in the fountain] is that these are the only intelligent
sentient humanoid creatures in the wizard world. >>

There are other intelligent sentient creatures at least as humanoid as
Centaurs: merpeople, Veelas, hags, giants, maybe vampires, depending
what vampires are in the Potterverse.

I think the statue refers to some historical event when a specific
wizard, witch, centaur, goblin, and House Elf worked together to solve
some major crisis, and that it foreshadows that the solution to
Voldemort will require the same cast of characters: JKR has already
set up plenty of wizards and witches (Harry, Ron, Neville, Hermione,
Luna, Ginny), Dobby the House Elf, and Firenze the centaur. I assume
that Book 6 will introduce a goblin ally via Bill's Gringotts connection.

Maybe JKR will set it so that the previous solution was only temporary
because the wizarding folk seized power over the magical non-humans,
such as outlawing them from using wands -- if the problem came back
and Voldemort is the problem, that correlates with the previously
posted theory that Salazar Slytherin's evil soul takes over the body
or at least corrupts the soul of, like, y'know, one wizard per
century, who thus becomes a Dark Lord (Grindelwald, Voldemort, etc). 

Maybe she means to finagle it so the new solution is permanent
(Salazar Slytherin's soul passes on) because the wizarding folk
acknowledge, legislate, and respect the equal rights of non-human
people. But it will be hard to show Dobby, Firenze, and Goblin X as
the saviors being admired by the wizards and witches, when the
Prophecy has set up that it will be a wizard, Harry or Neville, who
deals with Voldemort.

Angel Moules wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/86828 :

<< "The Hanged Man" suggests to me that the area might have been part
of the 19th Century riots that gripped the countryside as farming was
mordernised (c.f. Ulverton, by Adam Thorpe). It suggests a particular
hanging, perhaps one where the locals were in sympathy with the
criminal rather than the victim. >>

I thought "The Hanged Man" was just a pun on HANGleton, and perhaps a
reference to a Tarot card.