[HPforGrownups] re: Malkin/meanSnape/Darrin Slytherins/Smartest atHogwarts/Alliteration/Rosmerta

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 57655


--- Catlady wrote:
> The problem with that is that so many cats look
> so similar that I 
> have never had any trouble finding commercial
> photos of cats who look 
> EXACTLY like my Nan, my Obi, my Sasha, my
> Taliesin, my Cinnamon .... 
> I even saw a picture in the Foster & Smith
> catalog one time that 
> looked like my Pixy! (she's a tiny pastel
> tortoiseshell with a pointy 
> face, rather unusual combination)

Lynn:

One difference is that there would be
characteristics you may not find on your average
cat.  This is why the MoM makes note of the
particular markings on registered animagi.  We
know from McGonagall and dear old Rita that you
can see the shape of their glasses in their
markings. 


Catlady wrote:
   
> [Slytherin] did leave the basilisk behind in
his Chamber
> of Secrets, but we 
> have only the psychotic TMR's word that his
> reason for leaving the 
> basilisk was to kill "Mudbloods". He may well
> have intended the 
> Basilisk to be used as defense against any army
> that attacked the 
> school, or that the Basilisk remain in the
> Chamber to guard whatever 
> OTHER secrets he had hidden there. 


Lynn:

My problem with the defense argument is how would
Salazar know that one of his heirs would be at
Hogwarts at a time when the Chamber may be
opened.  Guarding other secrets he may have
hidden there is a reasonable argument and I
wonder if the Chamber has since been explored. 
For some reason I doubt this as it would make too
much sense.  LOL  While I agree we can't take
TMR's word for the reason, I don't think the
reason Slytherin left the basilisk was for benign
reasons.  I would tend more to his heir being
able to take over (take back?) Hogwarts for
Slytherin.


Lynn

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