Lily WAS muggle-born and what happened in CoS.

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108548

DuffyPoo:
> My personal opinion is that LM was going to give the diary to HP, 
> or why would Dobby have indicated that HP would be in mortal 
> danger?  HP's mortal danger would be: being caught and having his 
> soul sucked out by Dementors.  

Geoff:
"Sorry, I don't follow your drift here. How do Demenotrs come into 
this?"

DuffyPoo again:
Um...Dobby says HP will be in 'mortal danger' if he goes back to Hogwarts.  If Ginny Weasley were the intended recipient of the Diary, I just can't see how that would cause HP to be in 'mortal danger'.  If, however, as I said, HP is the intended recipient (and the plan was changed at the last moment) HP is discovered attacking and killing Muggle-borns...he's not going to walk away free.  Unless there's a wizard juvenile detention somewhere, the kid would be going to Azkaban.  The Dementors were pretty quick to zero in on HP in PoA - for no reason, an innocent - and Fudge was pretty quick to have a dementor suck out young Barty Crouch's soul in GoF...he wasn't even questioned. 

sad1199:
> "Someone posted about a passage from Lucius' house to Hogwarts, is  
> there direct canon on this or speculation? "

DuffyPoo:
> No canon that I know of but that would have to be a heck of a long 
> tunnel.  The Malfoy mansion is in "Wiltshire" appears to me to be a 
> fair distance to anywhere in Scotland (no matter where in Scotland 
> Hogwarts is supposed to be). 


Geoff:
>>>The nearest point in Wiltshire to the Scottish border, which itself 
is a long way south of the Highland Region, would be of the order of 
400 miles. Wiltshire is a county to the west of London.<<<

DuffyPoo again:
So, are you saying I'm right, that it would be a heck of a long tunnel?


DuffyPoo:
> I haven't ruled something to do with the passage on the fourth 
> floor behind the mirror that had been blocked since the winter of 
> CoS. 

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> It's odd to me that no one in the school "last winter" felt any 
> vibration from a tunnel collapse.  

Geoff:
"Why? The tunnel entrance at the school end would be more of a 
passageway; Hogwarts is not built into the side of a hill as far as I 
know so the collapse would very likely have occurred in the 
underground section well away from the buildings."

DuffyPoo:
Beg pardon, I just instinctively felt someone would have 'felt' something.  Even a collapse outside could have, might have, caused vibration inside;  think earthquake.  Since we don't know exactly where on the fourth floor this tunnel starts, or where it ends, the bottom of the stairs or slide could still be in the school.   If the tunnel HP uses collapsed, someone would feel it, I'm sure  When the tunnel in the CoS collapsed, I'm sure they must have felt it, in the school, but since they shortly knew what happened, there was no need to discuss it.  None of this really matters, it's just a feeling I had when I first read the reference F&G make to the tunnel collapsing.  I thought they would feel vibrations, but as it was never mentioned, an alternative is someone closing in the tunnel from the other end.  To F&G it would look like it collapsed, since it was completely blocked.


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