[HPforGrownups] Theories and Questions...

[Maria Kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 52536


Amanda wrote:
>>>First of all: How did Lupin, who has never been a professor before as 
werewolves aren't generally allowed to have prestigious jobs in the 
wizarding world, know that chocolate counteracts the effects of a 
dementor when Prof. McGonagall didn't know this. He claims to not 
know much about fighting dementors but he can conjure a patronus and 
knows how to counteract them??? <snip>>>>

Phyllis answered:

And Lupin doesn't say that he doesn't know much about fighting 
dementors.  What he says is:  "I don't pretend to be an expert at 
fighting Dementors, Harry - quite the contrary."  So while he may not 
be an expert, Lupin clearly does know what needs to be done and how 
to teach Harry to do it.

I add: Right. And he's modest, and doesn't like to attract attention to himself. If he were Lockhart - well, we all know what that would have sounded like. ;) 

"Ah, i am just the right person to help you, young Harry! As a matter of fact, one of the reasons I won the Witch Weekly Most Charming Smile Award three years ago was because I fought off a dementor with it - I just smiled and -poof- he was gone. But I don't expect you to have the same effect on them, so you'll have to stick to a simpler defence. It is called the Patronus Charm. I named it that, by the way. I defeated ten dementors at once with it when I was just a little younger than you. Many accomplished wizards tend to have trouble with it, though, so I wouldn't be surprised that you..." blah blah blah.

As for chocolate, Phyllis covered most of that in her answer, too, so I'll just add again - just because he can't find work doesn't mean he doesn't read books. Hermione hasn't ever tried Apparating off Hogwarts grounds, but she knows it can't be done.

Amanda:
Since,3 out of the 4 years Harry has attended Hogwarts, one teacher 
usually ends up being on the dark side and plots to get HArry in some 
way, why don't they just give new teachers a healthy dose of 
Veritaserum before they start their job?..If they would have done 
this...none of the things that happened because of a foul teacher 
would have came about......

Me:

I think it's mainly an ethical problem. I'm of the opinion that drugging people with such a potion is morally unacceptable, however bad the track record of the DADA teachers is, especially before they do anything dire. 

Amanda goes on:

Next..and I am sure this one has probably been discussed, but I just 
stumbled upon it so forgive me...The color green is obviously used to 
be the color of evil..<snip examples>

Could it be that Red is the color of good <snip>I might be reaching out on a limb here but it makes sense to me....Something else I came up with based on this 
color theory is this:

Me:

There are *definitely* several posts on red and green somewhere in the archives, but I don't remember where. I also don't remember the particulars (some help I am <g>), but IIRC green *is not* the color of evil. It has a very complex and ambiguous meaning. Two of your examples, BTW, do not support the Evil!Green theory - Harry's eyes (which he inherited from saintly, self-sacrificing Lily 'Pure' Potter), and Slytherin. IMO it's a stretch to call the House evil. Unpleasant to Gryffindor, yes. Evil, no. 

And red... Voldemort has lovely red eyes, doesn't he? I just swoon when I read about 'em.

>>>IF, and I mean IF, the color green is linked to evil, can we assume 
that the ministry has turned evil if it uses a lot of 
green..."...toward the first of two old-fashioned dark green cars, 
each of which was driven by a furtive-looking wizard wearing a suit 
of emerals velvet." Now I am really reaching on this one but since we 
know that some DE's have been working for the ministry..maybe they 
are slowly trying to convert it to evil...<snip>>>>

I dunno. I thought that JKR dressed those wizards in emerald-green because it's color you *don't* see very often in clothes. Especially green suits. It's just very funny - furtive-looking wizards in suits (camouflage), trying to look like Muggles but *failing*, 'cause their suits are green. I laughed when I read that, honestly.

But green does seem to be rather popular with wizards, doesn't it? Maybe they wear it because they're Harry Potter fans? <g>

Maria



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