[HPforGrownups] Weasleys, Malfoys, and Tathal the betrayer

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 51971

Quoth Catlady

>I think the Ministry of Magic not only provided the cars to King's
>Cross, but paid for the rooms at the Leaky Cauldron. Remember how
>pleased Fudge was that the run-away Harry was at the Leaky Cauldron,
>and told him he could visit Diagon Alley but not go back to the
>Muggles?

As an employee of one of the Muggle ministries, I know that if you have to
stay away as part of your official duties, the ministry pays your hotel
bill. I suspect that Arthur could have wangled it on his expenses,
especially with Fudge's apparent approval...

>Charlie Weasley. Ron said he's researching dragons in Rumania.
>Personally, I suspect he's *wrangling* dragons rather than
>*researching* them ---  bringing four nesting dragons to Hogwarts
>for the Triwizard Tournament would mess up any reasonable research
>plan those four specimens were involved in. And the 30 or so wizards

I looked up the reference last night and the exact word is "studying". Maybe
dragons are like elephants in that some are wild and others sort of
domesticated!

>working in unison to stun, levitate, and transport those dragons
>seemed well practised at their wrangling. Dragons seem to be almost
>a livestock, what with dragon's heartstring wands, dragonhide boots
>and gloves, dragon liver at seventeen Sickles the ounce, twelve uses
>of dragons' blood....

Perhaps being magical creatures (and powerful ones) their bodily parts have
a greater magical potential than, say, weasels! So there would have to be
(or we would hope so) some sort of managed programme of harvesting,
otherwise they'd end up extinct.

>By the way, you always have verses in Welsh in your sig, and it
>seems to me that they aren't always the same verse, so maybe can

If you can remember different stuff in my sig, you've been on lists with me
for very many years! However:

>you translate "Tathal Twyll Golau" for me? In the Patrick Ford

"twyll" is "betrayal" and "golau" is "light" so perhaps "Tathal the bright
betrayer" would be a translation.

>translation of Culhwh and Olwen, in the list of Arthur's men, I
>found "Tathal Twyll Golau whose treachery was patent" and that
>description sounds like an ancestor of the Malfoys.

Do you think the Malfoys are treacherous? They seem like loyal Voldemortians
to me!

>However, Isaac Bonewitz *did* get a Bachelor of Arts in Magic degree
>from the University of California at Berkeley back in the 1960s. His
>diploma is reproduced on the back cover of his book REAL MAGIC. His
>type of magic, thaumaturgy, is more like Hogwarts than it's like
>prestidigitation. (Not that it's much like Hogwarts.)

I've heard this also. Wasn't the story that Berkeley experimented with
allowing students to set their own degree subjects for a very short time?

Cheers

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