Dragons and Diary

[Amey Chinchorkar]

No: HPFGUIDX 106507

-	From: "mcmaxslb" <McGregorMax at ec.rr.com>
-	Not really. The DA is a little like the dueling club in CoS and now 
-	it can meet openly. Mind you, one of the appeals of the DA was that 
-	it was a secret. I think Dumbledore will encourage the meetings now 
-	that the war is on in earnest.

Amey:
Yes, but the DA was meeting of very few students. Imagine if the activity continues on a larger scale. Imagine some slytherin moving around with the kind of dueling skills DA members learnt. I hate to think further. I think DA will continue, but at the same level as it is now.

-	Carol, trying not to think of the old Disney movie, "Pete's Dragon"
-	Seriously, I would think that dragons would be
-	associated with either courage or cunning, but not being up on that
-	branch of mythology, I'd be interested in hearing from the experts. If
-	I'm right and Hermione's wand has a dragon heartstring core, what are
-	the implications? (And wouldn't those wands be rather rarer than
-	unicorn tail hair cores because the animal has to die and can only
-	contribute one heartstring? I can't see Mr. Ollivander killing dragons
-	himself at his age, even if he does pull out unicorn tail hairs. He'd
-	have to get them from a distributor of dragon parts.)

Amey:
Sorry to jump in late.

You got me started on thinking of mythology and all. Remember Dragonheart? A dragon gives a part of his heart to somebody and still he lives, and also makes the person live as long as he lives. Is it same? What I mean is, does dragon have to die to give a heartstring? I don’t think any other creature has to die to give material for wand, so why only dragon. I think there must be some non-violent way (on Ollivander’s part, maybe not on dragon’s) to get the heartstring. Otherwise, think of the unicorn tried to gore him for one hair of its tail, what would the dragon do? 

Also one more thing, in eastern cultures, mainly Chinese, dragons are considered as a symbol or representation of phoenix. Any  thoughts anyone???



-	Leeann wondered that herself:
-	Not sure, I can't reference OoP right now, but was there any Order guard
-	posted after Arthur was attacked by the snake/Harry? I would think that the
-	order would have to find another way to "post a guard" after that night.
-	Would it be wise to continue to place an order member outside that door when
-	the MOM and DEs know about them? Would it be wise to flaunt the fact that
-	you know LV wants in to Dept of Mysteries?

Amey:
I would be sorry for that member. We don’t get any references, but they must have had to keep somebody there. I mean, even if there is one attack, LV is not going to stop till the time he gets the prophesy, right? Maybe they kept watch till they knew Harry saw about Avery (sorry, not sure) telling LV that only the mentioned persons can get prophesy. 
Because in the condition Fudge was, he could hardly listen to Dumbledore saying that LV would want the prophesy and keep it under guard.


-	Aggie:
-	Yes, yes, yes,  I UNDERSTAND that,  what I didn't understand  was how 
-	<snip about the how Ginny could be incriminated>
-	It just doesn't add up!  But thanks for trying!!

Amey:
But Tom tells us why he took Ginny in the Chamber. It was a plan to lure Harry there.

"Haven't I already told you," said Riddle quietly, "that killing Mudbloods
doesn't matter to me anymore? For many months now, my new target
has been -you." (CoS)

So, what I think is it was Lucius’ plan to discredit Arthur (how he was planning to prove it we won’t know), but LV does not like to confirm to others’ plans. He has got his own plans.


Amey







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