Questions

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No: HPFGUIDX 118932


I have a few questions that most likely have been discussed in the 
past; of course the search engine we have renamed as Yahoomort has 
been of little help:   

(1)Nearly Headless Nick is the Gryffindor house ghost. The Sorting 
Hat claims of Gryffindor's traits: "You might belong in Gryffindor, 
where dwell the brave at heart, their daring, nerve, and chivalry set 
Gryffindor's apart" (SS The Sorting Hat)
but
in OOP The Second War 
Begins: Nick tells Harry "I was afraid of death," [
] "I chose to 
remain behind
" If the house's ghost had the traits belonging to 
their house, why was Sir Nicholas afraid to die? Isn't bravery and 
chivalry equal to fearlessness like when Harry dashes off without a 
thought to his own safety? It seems quite odd that Nick was in 
Gryffindor when he didn't display such qualities. 

(2)If the Dursley's are so against anything having to do with magic, 
why was Dudley allowed to watch a magician on television? SS The 
Letters From No One: Dudley whining to his mother
 "It's Monday [
] 
The Great Humberto's on tonight. I want to stay somewhere with a 
television." I may be wrong to think that the Great Humberto is a 
magician but it sounds awfully similar to the Great Houdini. Also it 
sounds as though this were a regiment of Dudley's weekly routine. I 
realize that the Dursley's are more than permissive when it comes to 
Dudley but when it comes to the dirty "M" word and the possibility 
that Harry might be influenced if he were to see the magician 
program, why was Dudley allowed to watch it?  (It is the small 
somewhat insignificant details I tend to question)

(3)Why do the 3rd year students need a permission form signed by 
their guardians to visit Hogsmeade but the children who were underage 
participants of the 2nd task in Goblet, i.e. Hermione, Gabrielle, 
Ron, did not need to inform their parents or have permission, 
wouldn't this task be more dangerous than Hogsmeade? 

(4)Why does it appear that Harry is protected from everyone while 
living with the Dursley's except Dudley? Why can Dudley use Harry as 
a punching bag but Vernon received a shock when he touches Harry? 
Voldemort, in the graveyard, claims that he is so protected at the 
Dursley's that not even he can touch him there, but Dudley can.

(5)Neville's father was an auror and both of Neville's parents were 
in the Order but what was Neville's mother's occupation, something 
Gran didn't approve possibly like the Department of Mysteries where 
one of Harry's parents worked perhaps? There were quite a few spies 
for Voldemort on the inside of the Ministry. How else would Voldemort 
have known who was pregnant or who just had a baby? (Not front-page 
news stories) 



Just a few small things I've been questioning until we can savor of 
every scrumptious bite of book six. 

Snow

"So when you hear someone sneer at the Harry Potter books, either 
they haven't read them, and are therefore too ignorant to be listened 
to, or they haven't understood them, and are therefore not clever 
enough to take part in serious adult conversations."-- Orson Scott 
Card