Some More Potential OoP Flints

[Zen]

No: HPFGUIDX 68381

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Phyllis" 
<erisedstraeh2002 at y...> wrote:
> Some more potential OoP flints I've noticed (with apologies if 
these 
> have already been raised, I'm having difficulty keeping up):
> 
> 1.	It's described as a "tight fit" when Harry and Mr. Weasley 
> are crammed into the telephone box to go down to the Ministry of 
> Magic, but then Harry and five friends are able to fit into the box 
> on the Sirius rescue mission?

I'm betting that that phone box expands to fit as many people as need 
to be in there at a given time.

> 2.	In the Room of Requirement, a whistle appears when Harry 
> wants one.  Why then doesn't a Boggart appear when Harry thinks 
about 
> how useful a Boggart would be in helping the DA learn the Patronus 
> Charm?

I believe someone has stated a theory that the Room can "summon" what 
actually exists in the castle, but not create out of thin air.  If 
there isn't one hiding in a clock or a closet someplace, then there 
isn't one in stock, so to speak.

> 3.	Lupin is able to open the door to 12 Grimmauld Place by 
> tapping it with his wand.  So then why do the other members of the 
> Order have to ring the doorbell?

Sheer habit, no doubt.  When faced with a front door, you ring the 
bell.  Seems to me that Sirius gets mightily annoyed with everyone 
who "forgets" that the bell ringing will wake his mother (and all 
that that implies).

> 4.	Someone (sorry, can't remember who now!) astutely mentioned 
> that the entire Hogwarts student body should know that Harry can 
> conjure a Patronus since he did so at the Gryffindor-Ravenclaw 
> Quidditch match in PoA.  I found it also odd that the question 
Lupin 
> asks Harry to verify his identify when the Guard comes to Privet 
> Drive is "What form does your patronus take?"  when there are lots 
of 
> other people other than Harry (most notably, sons of DEs such as 
> Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle) who also know this information.

The first two times Harry clearly saw his own corporeal Patronus on 
the night Wormtail was exposed, he thought it was a unicorn or a 
horse.  (I don't think he was paying that much attention to its 
appearance on the Quidditch pitch; there was a Snitch that was far 
more pressing at the moment.)  I think most people watching an 
exciting Quidditch match, especially with the sudden addition of a 
Dementor on the pitch, would be far too distracted to clearly 
distinguish its exact species.

> 5.	There are fifty witches and wizards at Harry's hearing, and 
> Arthur indicates his belief that this constitutes the entire 
> Wizengamot.  However, at Karkaroff's hearing in GoF, there were 
over 
> 200 witches and wizards in attendance.

Wouldn't there be many more members of the Wizengamot during a time 
when the WW is dealing with the fallout of Voldemort, and there are 
hundreds of DEs to deal with?

> 6.	Harry refers to Lupin as being "sacked," but he actually 
> resigned the DADA position in PoA.

Yes, Lupin resigned.  But he was forced into it by Snape's outing him 
to Slytherin and the rest of Hogwarts, and probably Harry & Co. view 
it as a de facto sacking.

> 
> ~Phyllis

Zen
who hasn't nearly enough to do at work today (yay)