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ANIMAGI
Brooke Shanks wrote:

<< I think Lily Potter was an Animagus & that her animal form was a 
frog... (remember she was always coming home with frog spawn?) >>

I don't think Lily was an Animagus. If she was, in what way does a 
Frog indicate her personality? If pockets full of frog spawn was 
proof of Frog Animagery, then Ron would be a Frog Animagus. When 
Harry first visited the Burrow in CoS and went to Ron's room, "Ron's 
magic wand was lying on top of a fish tank full of frog spawn on the 
windowsill". 

Hermia Woods wrote:

<< I actually was thinking Ginny will end up an Animagus, myself -- 
likely another cat, since there were repeated references to her 
curling up (sometimes "like a cat" was actually said). She curls into 
chairs, sits on the floor with crookshanks, etc. >>

Now that you mention it, I think it more likely that she'll be a 
*tigress* or a *panther* as she certainly seems fierce and powerful 
enough!

SNAPE
Kelly Grosskreutz wrote:

<< On a side note, has anyone thought about how Snape might be 
feeling about Sirius's death? After all, here is another death he 
tried to prevent and failed. He hated him, true, but he still tried 
to keep him alive. >>

I thought Snape would expect to feel happy and gratified at the death 
of his old enemy, a death that he can blame on said enemy's own 
reckless foolishness, but would be surprised to find his triumph 
empty. He no longer has Sirius around to insult him -- but he no 
longer has Sirius around to insult, but he still has the memories of 
Sirius insulting him, and no way to hit back at a memory ... maybe 
we'll see him trying to pick a fight with Remus to make up for it.

Tamara wrote:

<< It's always struck me as odd that people are constantly reminding 
Harry to call Snape Professor. Whenever he is talking to someone and 
he says Snape, they always say "Professor". Always. But I don't 
think they do that with other Professors. He says Dumbledore and I 
don't believe adults correct him and say Professor. >>

Because they can hear the disrespect in his voice when he says 
"Snape" and the respect in his voice when he says "Dumbledore".

CLASS ON THESTRALS
Gertie Keddle wrote:

<< but why the heck would you have a class on animals that only what, 
three? of your students ended up being able to see? Aside from Harry, 
who would expect 15 year olds to have seen someone die? >>

I suppose even the students who can't see them could benefit from 
learning how to detect their presence, how to catch them and harness 
them despite not being able to see them, and so on. If the wizarding 
folk have the old custom that people who die of old age die at home, 
with their families around them, it would be quite likely that 
several 15 year olds had seen their grandparent (like Neville) or 
great-grand or great-grandparent or aunt or uncle die.

Tom Wall wrote:

<< Gryffindor wanted only the bravest, Slytherin the pure-of-blood, 
and Ravenclaw the smartest. Helga Hufflepuff, it seems, was the only 
one who didn't give a hoot who you were, where you came from, or what 
your abilities were. In other words, IMHO, Helga Hufflepuff had the 
best attitude out of all of them. >>

It always seems to me that Helga wanted students who work hard and 
obey the rules, and try not to call attention to themselves. It seems 
to me that she would expel Slytherin AND Gryffindor types for their 
rule-breaking, and many Ravenclaw types for reading ahead in their 
books and studying topics that weren't on the curriculum.

Calimora wrote:

<< Slytherin house doesn't seem to gather all of ambitious people >>

I've always felt that Slytherin House accumulates not so much the 
ambitious as the unscrupulous, those who aren't picky about what
means they use to achieve their ends, even if their ends are 
un-ambitious things like "obey Draco".

Shef wrote:

<< I'm also wondering how Crabbe and GOyle got into Slytherin. 
They're not cunning, and show no signs of ambition. THe only 
qualifications they have are being pure-blooded. >>

See my above. Also, my below was in your same post.  

Richelle wrote:

<< right now I've really got doubts about Seamus being very 
trustworthy in the future. >>

In the first book, the Sorting Hat took almost a minute to Sort him. 
I've always wondered what that was a Clue about ... was it trying to 
put him in Slytherin?