Cabbage smell,twins and time-turners

[The Sparrow]

No: HPFGUIDX 53279

Morgan D wrote:
In PS/CS ch 2, Harry describes Mrs Figg as a mad old
lady who lived
two streets away, and he says her whole house
smelled of cabbage. In
CoS ch 12, Harry drinks Polyjuice Potion and thinks
it tasted like
overcooked cabbage. That was enough to convince many
readers that
Arabella isnt an old lady at all.

Me:
This is a fine a theory as any of the others, but
really, we have to think of the fact that cabbage is a
funny thing, not to mention nasty. In England,
smelling or eating cabbage is not uncommon, especially
where boarding school and grannies are! I think it's
just one of those things. Just because my socks
occasionally smell of old cheese, doesn't mean my feet
have a night job at the cheddar factory!!:)

Pippin wrote:
I have another to add to the mix. Doesn't it seem a
mite 
suspicious that we have two sets of twins in Harry's
generation 
(the Patils and the Weasleys) and none for the
Marauder years?

Me:
Yeah, the twin thing.....
Twins have certain powers that regular siblings don't
have-telepathy/mind-reading being the most obvious.
Fred and George are an excellent example of connected
twins, being of the same sense of humour, abling them
to have the same goals and finish each others jokes.
It also makes them an impressive 'pre-emtive' pair of
beaters!
The Patils are interesting in that they're in
different houses, and considering Harry hopes that
Padma Patil's nose is dead center(GoF end of ch.22),
we can assume they're not identical-just twins. Maybe
this is another one of those things that are just
that- one of those things. Cabbage is funny, twins are
magical,people are not what they seem....
It would make it easy for twins to use time-turners
though, 'cause if you were seen where you weren't two
minutes ago, people would just assume you were the
'other one'I wonder about these time-turners,if
they're rare like Invisibility cloaks-time is a tricky
thing to be responsible for. Brings me back to my
original thinkin' about Hermione's time-turner. Why
should McGonnagal give her one just to attend extra
classes? Is it because she's friends with Harry?
Sparrow 




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