Goblin Business/Nagini Milk/Snape Saving HP's Life/What Ron is Good At

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 96908

Steve bboy_mn asked in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/96410 :

<< -Do, as I very much suspect, the Goblins have muggle 'front'
businesses that they use to funnel money into and out of the muggle
world? >>

JKR appears to think so. In AOL Chat 29 October 2000:

Q: When people trade in Muggle money for Wizard money, what does
Gringotts do with the Muggle money?

JKR: Those goblins are sneaky people. They manage to put the Muggle
money back into circulation. They are like "fences" --British slang,
do you understand it? 

Siriusly Snapey Susan asked in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/96415 :

<< Why was Nagini's milk able to sustain Voldy? >>

In RL, to speak of 'milking' a snake means to draw the venom from its
fangs into a container. I've always assumed it was Nagini's VENOM that
sustains UglyBaby!Voldy.

Potioncat asked in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/96470 :

<< If Harry cannot be killed by anyone but LV, why was Snape so busy
trying to save his life in the first year? >>

Presumably Snape does not believe that Harry cannot be killed by
anyone but LV. Do we know for sure that he knows about the Prophecy? 

Marcelletiger wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/96901 :

<< Is there anything special about Ron? Does anything stand out about
him, or is nothing supposed to stand out about him as the youngest
of so many brothers?

Harry is, well, Harry, and has a affinity for defensive magic and
quiddich. Hermione is mentally gifted. Even Neville is rather good
at herbology. Dean=drawing. Dudley=eating; punching. etc, etc... >>

Ron is good at chess.