Parvati Patil (Was:Recurrences)

[justcarol67]

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Kneasy wrote:
... thinking about some of the creatures that Harry has had to deal
> > with over the past 5 books when I began to discern a pattern.
> > 
> > ... he has had to  deal with some unfriendly life-form that tries to
> > rip his guts out, he has already has seen/met/had dealings with ....
> > 
> > So we have:
> > 
> > -Python in zoo                
> > -Snake at Duelling Club,
> > -Basilisk
<snip>
> > -Lee Jordan's spider (??His pet trantula??)
> > -Aragog
<snip>

> > Pavarti Patil. Not an Arabic or Egyptian name.  The name sounds more
> > likely to be Persian or Indian. So why does she fear a Boggart 
> > masquerading as a bandage wrapped mummy, which is strictly 
> > Egyptian ... and when her own mythology has some very nasty beasts
> > of its own?
> > 
> bboy_mn:
> 
> Why does anybody fear anything? As far as I can remember, Seamus and
> the Banshee is the only example of someone fearing something
> significantly related to their own culture. That's one out of ten.
> Given that only one out of ten had a culturally oriented Boggart, why
> would it be unsual for Pavarti to fear something that she must
> certainly be aware of, that most people of all cultures are aware of,
> and something that most people would logically fear. We fear what we
> fear, it never makes logical sense.

Carol:
It's Parvati, guys, and IIRC, Parvati, Padma (her twin's name), and
Patil are all Indian names, but Parvati and Padma are as Anglicized as
anyone in the books. I think a mummy is just something that a kid
who's been taught that mummies are real might be scared of. Presumably
she doesn't have anything in her own life (a scary relative or
whatever) to be afraid of. I do agree with Kneasy that most of the
monsters Harry faces have been foreshadowed, however, (Remember the
spider on Harry's sock in chapter 2 of PS/SS? Unlike Ron, he's not
afraid of spiders because he dealt with them every day while he lived
in that closet.) so I wouldn't be surprised if a mummy shows up
somewhere. (Or a vampire, either, as long as it isn't Snape!)

I do wonder what's up with the Patil twins, since JKR has gone out of
her way to make them different, in contrast to the minute and subtle
differences between Fred and George. Will Parvati do something brave?
Admittedly, she stood up to Draco when he was teasing Neville during
their first flying lesson and she's a member of DADA, but that's all
we've seen so far.

Carol, with apologies for straying from the original topic