Random Thoughts

[Monita]

No: HPFGUIDX 57003

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ladi lyndi <ladilyndi at y...> 
wrote:
> While lying down trying to get rid of a pounding
> headache, the following questions came to mind
> and just made me say Hmmmmm.


Lyn,
Picky Picky. I take it you still like the series after picking so 
many nits from it, aye?
Well, Ok I have a few answers for some of your muses so lets begin.> 

>10.  Why did Lucius Malfoy have no choice but to
> leave when Dobby told him too?  Is an elves
> finger the equivalent of a wizard's wand?

Ok GOF will tell you that elf magic is considerably powerful.
Oh Darn that book is so big! It will take me all day to find the 
canon, I'll get back to you with it. Suffice for now to say that Elf 
magic, is not easily overcome by a wizard, and, perhaps Lucius is not 
so talented a wizard. It appears to me in the series that he gets by 
on his wits more than his wizardry anyway. Maybe he personally is no 
match for Dobby in combat and knows it.

> 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?

Yeah, I think they can be killed. JK just hasnt told us how, or 
whether they can reproduce either. THey however do display survival 
instinct in that they side with whoever is winning, <GOF Dumbledore 
says that the DE's are their natural allies but they have sided with 
the ministry purely to ensure their own survival> and also that they 
seek sustenance actively <POA their pursual of Harry>. Those with 
survival instinct can be killed, and I think the only way we know of 
so far for killing Dementors, is starvation.
 
 > 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?

Short answer: YES. Long answer: The MOM is a sham. 
It is controlled by bullies, like Lucius, and weak incompentents, 
like Fudge. The typically political manner of dealing with this 
situation fits the bill and it is. The Bad guys are in the gaol and 
the world is restored to peace. We need do no more. File anything 
else away now, lest we open a can of worms that would make us look 
bad.

> 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?

No, to both. Harry threw off the Imperious curse because he is not 
susceptible to that particular unforgivable. Even in his first 
experience with it he was able to hear his own voice. When Crouch AKA 
Moody uses the Imperius on Harry in the first lesson he is, after a 
few rounds able to entirely throw off the curse and behave normally. 
Though he needs to concentrate harder against a power such as 
Voldemorts it is his own inherent ability that makes him able to 
resist.
 
> 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?

Probably a trick that Voldemort knew. And it was likely to have to do 
with the fact that they were both considered by the wider community 
to be dead. Moody could have been first confused by the appearance of 
two apparent ghosts in his foe detectors and in his hesitation was 
taken by use of a cunning plot devised by Voldemort.
Thats what I think and I'm sticking to it. > 

> 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?

Do you mean at his trial?
I suppose that they all figured that he was certainly guilty. I dont 
suppose that in his blind fury at Peter much logical thought could 
have come to mind about the peril he himself faced. I'd say the short 
answer to that was it all happened too fast and he was in Azkaban 
before he had even come to realise that Peter had gotten away.

> 14. What happened to Wormtail's wand?  Was he
> able to carry it down into the sewer in his
> mouth?

I am pretty sure he left it behind along with his finger. More 
evidence to the story that Sirius had done away with him. 

> 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?

Dumb MOM aye! no idea Lyn. I guess they just didnt care, Voldemort 
was done away with, and peace restored, they simply refused to open a 
can of worms that could make them look bad.> 

> 16.  Why does Snape have an apparent phobia about
> washing his hair?

Actually its a scientific fact that greasiness is a result of 
overwashing the hair. It causes the oil glands to overproduce. 
Interesting fact aye?

> 18.  Why would there still be a wizarding
> contract for Harry if he didn't put his name into
> the Goblet of Fire?  

What do you mean?
Harry didnt put his name in Crouch did?

> 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?

It seems to be something that a qualified wizard can do easily. I 
think snape does it too in POA.

> 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?

And these are three questions that I have pondered myself and come to 
one conclusion for two, and another for the other.
1.Harry and Hermione where young and had less time to think about 
their answers than we have. 2. The troll was a troll not a spell like 
the others nb the dog did not reset either. 

well Lyn I hope that was some fun for us all
from TheValk 

btw.....
> 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?
LOL ????????