Sirius / Severus / Neville / TMR's diary and LV's wand / Penelope Clearwat

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 85821

I still believe that Sirius's "someplace warm!" hiding place was in
the Caribbean (maybe a Muggle-proof island in the Bermuda Triangle --
Hi, Amura! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/85640 )
and the bright-colored tropical birds who carried his mail were
probably macaws. Sure, macaws live on the mainland rather than the
islands, but Harry's mail is carried by a snowy owl, and snowy owls
don't live in Britain.

Lauri Goodknight-Moon wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/85810 :

<< I believe Sirius' animagus form is JKR's death clue, and it would
have been a huge hint if we had been paying attention, LOL. The "grim"
- a spectral black dog - is a portent of death in British folklore,
everyone knows. In Yorkshire the dog is known as The Padfoot. IMHO,
the moment she introduces us to animagus Sirius Black aka The Padfoot
(snip) she's dropping huge hints that he's going to die. >>

Yes, but she is ALSO demonstrating his canine personality; she can do
multiple things with the same symbol.

Eloise wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/85798 :

<< I'm sure he's suffering now because, despite all his taunts,
*Sirius* is the one who died the hero's death whilst he, ironically,
was the one who had to stay hidden away and couldn't take part on the
show-down at the MOM. >>

Oh, yes, while Severus is surely getting on everyone's nerves by
reciting how nice it is to rid of Sirius, and giving them a back-
handed compliment by saying how fortunate that it was Sirius who was
killed rather than someone not quite so useless, still Sevvie is
suffering terribly from frustration because no one else rises to his
bait in the satisfactory way that Sirius did, and he gets no visible
sign of the pain he gives them. Of the grown-ups, Remus is hurt most
by these taunts but Molly is the one least good at concealing her
feelings ... 

Laik Okae wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/85813 :

<< Neville also knows that its the LeStranges who tortured his parents
without being told. Which makes me wonder how much more he knows about
the Death Eaters and their trials...particularly Snape. >>

And Jen Reese replied in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/85816 :

<< The knowledge about the Lestranges (and perhaps DE's in general)
comes from Gran, I think. As we saw in St. Mungos she is very open
about what happened to Neville's parents: >>

In addition, don't all Neville's friends now know what happened to his
parents because they read the summaries of the escaped Death Eaters's
crime on the front page of the Daily Prophet? Gran probably didn't
tell Neville anything about Snape (she trusts Dumbledore, and
Dumbledore trusts Snape, QED) and the Daily Prophet didn't tell about
Snape.

Carol wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/85817 :

<< How did Lucius happen to have Tom Riddle's diary in his possession? >>

I think that both Tom Riddle's diary and Tom Riddle's father's
ancestral home were both in Lucius's collection of 'Lord Voldemort's
old school things'. I think that Lucius accumulated that collection
while he was serving LV in the previous Reign of Terror, at LV's
instructions, and probably with LV giving him some things to hold
onto. I don't think TMR left the diary at the school (even if it might
have been logical to leave it where it was to be used), but instead
left it with his other school days possessions at the home of one of
the 'useful friends' he said he had made at Hogwarts (which I imagine
to have been Lucius's father or older brother), a 'useful friend' who
supported him while he studied Dark Arts and gave him money to travel.

<< I still haven't read any wholly convincing explanations of how
Voldemort got his wand back.) >>

I accept the theory that LV brought Pettigrew along with him when he
went to kill the Potters, and Pettigrew grabbed up LV's wand before
fleeing from the disaster. Then he either had LV's wand with him
through all the years of rat-hood, or he hid it somewhere where he
went to retrieve it before going to Albania.

Carol wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/85819 :

<< To return to Penny, she may not know that Ginny was possessed, but
she certainly knows that Ginny was taken into the Chamber of Secrets
and almost killed. I'm also holding out the hope that she'll somehow
convince Percy to talk to Ginny about what happened to her, >>

Percy may have broken up with Penny. Possibly because one of his
bosses (Crouch Sr or Fudge) let him know that marrying a Muggle-born
was not a good career move. Possibly because Percy and Penny
quarrelled over whether to believe DD that LV was back or to believe
Fudge, or if she was outraged at him sending back his mother's Weasley
sweater and ordered him to go to Molly and apologize...