SnitchJames/ExpectedOfHarry/Mandrake/HermioneKnows?/RoomOfequire/Anagram/Econ

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 83635

Furkin Blue Eyes wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83459 :

<< It is however, canon that James was a seeker. He is shown as
playing a snitch that he "nicked" from the quidditch ball trunk and
even sketched a snitch on his test before tracing lily's initials. >>

There is more than one possible reason for James's attachment to 
the Golden Snitch. First, as you said, he might be the Seeker on 
his team. Then JKR might have changed her mind since she gave the
interview that said he was Chaser, or she might have come down with
movie contamination. The first occured when she put in OoP that the
Bones who were killed by Voldemort were Susan's uncle, aunt-by-
marriage, and little first cousins, when she had long ago said in an
interview that they were Susan's grandparents. The second occurred
when Percy's prefect badge in PS/SS was silver, and Ron's red and 
gold prefect badge in OoP was described as looking like Percy's.

Second, we know that Bowman Wright invented the Golden Snitch, lived
in Godric's Hollow, and made a bit of money from his invention, and 
we know that James and Lily hid in Godric's Hollow, and James
inherited a good bit of money. From this, various people have
speculated that the Potters are descended from Bowman Wright and he 
is the origin of their inherited wealth. This led some listie to
speculate that bully!James was playing with a Golden Snitch to remind
his fellow students of his Snitch-derived wealth.

Third -- I've seen this in fanfic, but don't recall ever seeing it 
on list -- LILY might have been the star Seeker from whom Harry
inherited his talent. That would explain James doodling a Golden
Snitch around her inititals, and using a Golden Snitch to try to
attract her attention.

Gretchen Bakies wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83460 :
 
<< Dumbledore said : "You have shown bravery beyond anything I could
have expected of you tonight, Harry. You have shown bravery equal to
those who died fighting Voldemort at the height of his powers. You
have shouldered a grown wizard's burden and found yourself equal to 
it -- **and you have now given us all we have a right to expect.**"
(** my emphasis). Now I know in OOP Dumbledore said he didn't want to
tell Harry about the Prophesy after all he'd gone through that night,
but isn't that going a bit far when clearly Dumbledore *does* expect
more from Harry in the fight against Voldemort.? >>

Catlady says: Dumbledore DOES expect more from Harry, but he is
secretly acknowledging that he expects more from Harry than he has
 a right to ask.

Caipora wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83493 :

<< This thread started off on the topic of ethics. The treatment of
the mandrakes, who are anthropormorphized and then puréed, is one of
the ethically most troubling incidents in the books. >>

Presumably the mandrakes, being plants, have only behaviors, not 
minds nor feelings behind those behaviors, and therefore the
dismembering and crushing of mandrakes is to me less ethically
troubling than all that practising Transfiguration on animals. I 
eat meat, so I have no right to complain that Transfiguring an animal
into an inanimate object is *killing* the animal, but these failed
attempts that result in partial Transfiguration, or all the mouse
vanished except its tail ... that must *hurt*!

Caipora wrote:

<< One of the most puzzling aspects of romance if not sex in Rowling
is Hermione's cool explanations of how girls behave in OotP. Her
demeanor has an air of "been there, done that, got the T-shirt" but
her only romantic relationship we know of is with Viktor, and that 
seem largely epistolary. How does she know so well how other girls
behave? She's given to spells, but in a different sense than other
girls. So how does she know? >>

>From books (also Thren's explanation in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83504 that
Hermione kept quiet and listened while the other girls were talking
girl-talk could also be true --- Hermione may have turned to books to
try to understand the nonsense that she was overhearing).

Laura strikethe pose wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83523 :

<< in the room of requirement was 'a large, cracked foe-glass that
Harry was sure had hung, the previous year, in the fake Moody's
office' (uk edition p346) Why would't it have been a nice shiny
unbroken foe-glass? And why the connection with fake Moody? >>

I think this is evidence for the theory that has been posted on list
that the Room of Requirement doesn't actually creata things, merely
draws in things that were already scatter around Hogwarts. So the 
DADA books in DA's RoR came from Madam Pince's library or someone
professor's personal collection and the cushions on the floor came
from a linen closet. I don't like that theory: if additional cleaning
supplies were already in the castle, why didn't Filch go to the
storeroom to get them instead of the RoR? There is a lot of *stuff* 
in Hogwarts Castle, but why would that include House Elf hangover
remedies?

Hermione Gallo wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83549 :

<< Did you or anyone else ever figure out the anagram I wrote? >>

I couldn't even figure out which phrase, sentence, or paragraph WAS
your anagram!

Flattering Ffred Manawydan wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83561 :

<< Also, of course, most sporting clubs run more than one team. So
would a quidditch club run a first team, a reserve team, and one or
more youth teams (under 11, under 13, under 16, and so on) to make
sure there's a constant supply of new players coming through. >>

I doubt that British and Irish pro Quidditch teams run youth teams
because Hogwarts seems to take care of developing the future players.

Caipora wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83630 :

<< We saw fairy gold at the Quiddich World Cup, and Bagman paid off
Fred and George's bet with it. It was created by magic, and vanished
in a day. I think we can safely take that as Rowling's view of money
made by magic. >>

I was thinking of some more difficult and long-lasting magic, such as
squeezing carbon into diamonds, rather than simply conjuring up the
coins as in that example. Perhaps, unbetweenst to Harry and thus to
us, some of those MoM employees are steering near-earth asteroids 
away from hitting earth, a service for which Muggle governments have
been paying wizarding governments since the 1908 Tunguska event 
warned them what could happen.

Abigailnus wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83622 :

<< The question isn't why Arthur and Molly weren't in the OOP last
time around. The question is, why would they be? We're talking about 
a young couple of absolutely no distinction that we're aware of. >>

I'm not sure they were of **no** distinction whatever: wasn't Arthur
Head Boy in his day?