Did Harry ever shed tears ? Phoenix animagus perhaps ?

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 80528

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, eowynn_24 <eowynn_24 at y...> 
wrote:
> Wouldnt it be interesting if Harry could be an animagus >in the 
form 
> form of a phoenix? Is this possible o cannonites and, if >not, why
> not? 

I believe that JKR said that none of the kids will become animagi.
I also doubt that one can turn into a magical animal like the
phoenix. All animagi seen thus far turned into "ordinary" animals.

> >It is also clear from CoS that Harry can {whether he knows it or 
not} 
> >summon a phoenix when in trouble just like Dumbledore can. 

No he can't. The phoenix belongs to Dumbledore and only came in
response to Harry's loyalty to Dumbledore. I also have a hunch
that Dumbledore himself may have sent him (i.e. he somehow knew
he needed help). Perhaps the phoenix could sense that Harry was
in trouble because his wand was taken by Riddle, and the core of
the wand is Fawkes' tail feather.

> >What if someone who is not related Harry {or whomever} by blood 
> >sacrificed his life for him ? Is there any special charm or shield 
> >generated by this sacrifice or must it be through a blood relation?

My understanding is that the shield requires the blood connection.
If it weren't, Dumbledore could have left Harry with the Weasleys
and not the Dursleys...

> >In CoS, when Ron and Harry took the polyjuice potion and ran into 
a 
> >Ravenclaw who turned out to be Percy's girlfriend Penelope 
Clearwater 
> >(pgs 219, 258 us ed) coming out of the entrance to the dungeon 
where 
> >the Slytherin lurk ... uh what was she doing there? If she wasn't 
> >Percy's girlfriend I wouldn't have given it a second thought ... 

I believe that Percy and Penny looked for secluded spots to kiss
as far away from their respective houses' dormitories. Both
Gryffindor and Ravenclaw have dormitories up in a tower so they
naturally hid in the dungeons.
 
> OK, now with out my books i don't have anything to back this, plus 
I could be completely off base. I always thought that since the 
Hufflepuffs and the Gryffindors went up the same set of stairs to 
their separate dormitories (splitting some ways before they reach 
said dorms.), that Ravenclaw and Slytherine were both located in the 
dungeons, just separate ways once you entered. Is this just movie 
contamination?

Yes. In OoP it is mentioned at least in one place that Ravenclaw
dormitories are in a tower and Hufflepuff in the dungeons (I don't
remember the exact place but I think it's described when they
depart the first DA lesson).

> >And my ultimate never got an answer to post --- Does anyone care 
that 
> >Luna was NOT on the Hogwarts Express at the end of OOTP ???????

It is never said she was not on the train. She was not in the same
compartment as Harry, but then she hasn't been there the first
four books either... I am sure she was on the train.

Salit