Random Thoughts

[Linda]

No: HPFGUIDX 56986

Lynn wrote:

> While lying down trying to get rid of a pounding
> headache, the following questions came to mind
> and just made me say Hmmmmm.
 
> 1.  Now that Percy is working, is he paying his
> parents room and board?  Is that why he thinks
> everyone in the house has to be very quiet and
> why he doesn't have to share his room in GoF? 
> (Yea, yea, I know what Ron says about why Percy
> doesn't have to share his room.)  

> 2.  At what age do wizards move out from mummy
> and daddy's and get their own place?
   
> 3.  Are there special wizard realtors or do
> wizards have to deal with Muggle realtors when
> they want to buy a house?

> 4.  Why didn't Bill, Charlie or Mr. Weasley lend
> Ron their dress robes for the Yule Ball?  Even a
> bit big, it would have been better than what Ron
> had to wear.  I'm assuming Fred and George were
> wearing Bill and Charlie's old ones.  
> 
> 5.  Why do the Weasleys keep buying the textbooks
> second hand when the older kids could just pass
> down their books?
> 
> 6.  How powerful a wizard do you have to be in
> order to snap your fingers and have ropes fly out
> and bind someone as Quirrell does in PS?
> 
> 7.  Why did Hermione lie about going after the
> troll?  Was she supposed to have a pass to go to
> the toilet, didn't have one and thought that was
> worse?
> 
> 8.  If Quirrell got through to the Philosopher's 
> Stone, how come everything was able to reset
> somehow, except the troll?
> 
> 9.  Why didn't Harry just tell Quirrell what he
> had previously seen in the Mirror of Erised, his
> parents, instead of making something else up?
> 
> 10.  Why did Lucius Malfoy have no choice but to
> leave when Dooby told him too?  Is an elves
> finger the equivalent of a wizard's wand?
> 
> 11.  Was Harry able to throw off the Imperious
> Curse put on him by Voldemort so easily because
> they are connected by the curse that failed? 
> Because, as Dumbledore has surmised, Voldemort
> transferred some of himself to Harry?
> 
> 12.  How were Crouch, Jr. and Wormtail able to
> get past Moody's foe detectors so easily that
> they were able to get into his house and
> overpower him, granted, after a struggle?
> 
> 13.  Why didn't anyone do the Priori Incantatem
> spell on Sirius's wand to find out if he was the
> one who had cast the spell that blew up the
> street?  Why didn't he suggest that when he was
> arrested?
> 
> 14.  What happened to Wormtail's wand?  Was he
> able to carry it down into the sewer in his
> mouth?
> 
> 15.  Didn't it strike the MoM strange that
> Pettigrew's robes were intact but the spell was
> powerful enough to disintegrate everything but a
> finger?  And why didn't the finger disintegrate
> as well?
> 
> 16.  Why does Snape have an apparent phobia about
> washing his hair?
> 
> 17.  Why didn't everyone eventually get a trial
> after the downfall of Voldemort?  Are there still
> people in Azkaban who have never had a trial?
> 
> 18.  Why would there still be a wizarding
> contract for Harry if he didn't put his name into
> the Goblet of Fire?  
> 
> 19.  Just how much whiskey did the Beauxbaton
> horses drink per day and did there need to be a
> distillery working full-time to supply them?
> 
> 20.  Can Dementors be killed?  If they can, why
> hasn't someone gotten rid of those nasty things
> by now?  Do Dementors have any positive purpose
> at all?
 
Me(Linda):

 Alright I'm going to go in order here. Sorry if you have to scroll 
up and down to match up questions and answers.

          1,2 and 3 I have absolutely no idea.

           4. That does seem reasonable. I wonder if they 
may have actually been too small for Ron. Their gerneral build seems 
to be describrd as thin while Ron is more the stocky type.

           5. I don't see why the transfiguration text books 
couldn't be passed down as there seem to be different levels of 
those. However, with the other exception of DADA (constantly 
changing due to new teachers) most of the text books seem to be ggod 
for more than one year (ie History of Magic).

           6. Never thought about it.

           7. I don't think she wanted the teachers to know that she 
had been crying and why.

           8. Actually the only thing that reset itself was the 
chess set and that could have been part of what it 
were 'programmed ' to do. Devils snare just was. We know Quirrel 
drank from the correct potion because there was only a mouthful left.
As for the key, he probably released it back with the others once he 
opened the door, just like HHR did. I'm missing something...oh yeah, 
Fluffy. Fluffy woke up as soon as the music stopped.

            9. I don't think it would have made any difference 
either way.

           10. According to Hermione,elves have very powerful magic 
of their own. (She's usually right about these things.) I'm sure 
Lucius was aware of that as well.

           11. I don't think that was related to V at all. Harry was 
able to throw it off when Moody (Crouch Jr) cast it as well.

           12. Maybe Moody will explain in OOP.

           13. VERY good question. Maybe they didn't think it was 
necessary?

            14.I don't see how. He was using V's wand in the 
graveyard.

            15. See answer 13. I think they just didn't bother to 
think that far. No one ever said they were rational about it.

            16. He He He
             
            17. Probably the classic stick your head in the sand 
mentality. Fudge was in charge after all.

            18. Harry couldn't proove he didn't put it in. Also, a 
magical contract, like everything else in the WW, probably works 
much 
differantly than one in the muggle world.

            19. Don't know and don't know. However, it MUST have 
been a lot considering their size and how many of them there were.

          and finally

            20. I vaguely remember something in an interview with 
JKR wher she said something regarding this. I can't remember where I 
saw it or which interview it was, sorry. If any body else knows the 
refferance please enlighten me.

           Whew, made it through.

    Linda- who should have been in bed at least an hour ago.