Privet Drive / Ethical Legilimency /

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 102210

Carolyn a_reader wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/102174 :

<< the Privet Drive scenario may be dispensed with altogether from
Book 6 onwards, as no longer necessary to the plot. She might even
have some fun actually blowing it up, as a metaphor for the
destruction of dullness. >>

Destruction of dullness, or destruction of security? I imagine
destruction of dullness to be a Good Thing, thus out of book in a
story about Bad Things Happening.d 

Lee Storm wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/102192 :

<< I would think that legilimency would have its ethical "code of
conduct," if you will. In most SF that speaks of telepathy or empathy
or any mind contacting ability, there is a privacy restriction
involved, so I would be surprised if the same didn't hold true with
legilimency. >>

A wizard who is an ethical person would use Legilimency in an ethical
way. A wizard who is not an ethical person (as in my previous post, I
believe that wizards raise their children to believe that ethics are
optional) will use Legilimency however he/she wants. We're heard of
Ministry regulation of Animagic and Apparation, but not of Legilimency 

Moonmyst wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/102208 :

<< Could this be signs of Alice trying to come out of her stupor?
Could she be trying to communicate with her son? Is there anything on
the papers? Could she have recovered that far? Does she know of a
danger to her son that is helping her to fight to regain her right
mind in order to warn him? >>

Last summer there were endless attempts to turn "Drooble's Best
Blowing Gum" into an anagram of "Lucius Malfoy is bribing the Healers
to drug the Longbottoms to prevent them from recovering their memories
and testifying that he was one of their attackers" as the message that
Alice was trying to tell Neville.

Me, in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/102143 :

<< I'm thinking, it might have seemed good to Molly to name twin sons
Fabian and Gideon after her brothers (especially if her brothers
happened to be twins) >>

JKR's website says that Arthur Weasley was one of three brothers.
Maybe Bill (surely Bilius Arthur Weasley) and Charlie are named after
Arther's brothers (maybe named in alphabetical order, making The
Burrow their ancestral home, inherited by Arthur as oldest son), so it
was Molly's turn to name babies after brothers. Maybe Percy was named
after Molly's father: Percy Prewett is the kind of name JKR seems to
like. 

Where are Arthur's brothers' children? The MINIMUM way that Lucius's
statement, quoted by Draco, that "all the Weasleys" have red hair, no
money, and more children than they can afford, can be true is if each
brother has at least 3 children. 

But she killed my lovely vision of Arthur having had 3 or 4 older
siblings who, between them, had over 20 red-haired children at
Hogwarts overlapping with Lucius's school days.