questions about HP (Evans?)

[Emily Anne Rude]

No: HPFGUIDX 85091

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...>
wrote:
 
> So we keep taking statements *logically* when we should be thinking 
> *magically*.

~I completely agree.  So many little things (and big things) are being
      examined altogether too logically.  It's the Potterverse, for
crying out loud!  (Apologies to Severus for calling it the
potterverse...bad kune, bad kune..)
 
> [If you have a copy of CoS which says 'ancestor', it's an official 
> mistake. It should read 'descendant'.]

~Thank you kindly.

> Similarly, for the purposes of the protection spell:
> as far as I can work out, Dumbledore needed someone who
> 
> a) knew they were related to Lily
> b) knew what a spell was
> c) could consent to the spell.
> 
> So Dudley simply doesn't count. 

~yup yup.  

> They don't exist. Magically, that is. When you're setting up the 
> spell, you don't consider them, so they have no *effective* 
> existence.
> 
> So Dumbledore can happily talk about Petunia as Lily's only 
> remaining relative, even though we know (from our logical
viewpoint) 
> that Petunia *wasn't* the only remaining relative. To Dumbledore's 
> mind, Dudley couldn't seal the charm, and so he doesn't exist. 

~I consider that as quite important...

> 
> Agatha Christie has her detective Miss Marple frequently remark
that 
> she never believes what people *say*. Unless there is objective 
> evidence to back it up, don't believe it.
> 
> Same applies in the Potterverse, IMO. Don't believe what people 
> *say*.
> 
> Firstly, there's the possibility that they're lying.
> 
> Secondly, there's also the possibility that what you think they
mean 
> and what they think they mean are not the same thing at all.
> 
> Pip!Squeak

~thank you thank you for that marvelous post- may I add that unless
you trust *someone* (Ddore) then you will be quite frustrated indeed.
    I have heard some nasty things about Ddore being somehow evil-
which of course I simply don't believe. (now watch, he'll end up
killing Harry or something)  But, really, you can't be paranoid *all*
the time.  
note- I'm really really brand new to this group so if I did something
   dreadfully wrong please don't get angry ... I didn't include the
whole text in my reply- is that bad?