Lupin, Prince, Grubbly-Plank, Levi-Strauss, Kreachur, Dark Lord / Transfigur

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 117870


I thought I had replied previously to Pippin's theory that there is no
such thing as a werewolf cub but rather even the youngest infant who
contracts lycanthropy turns into a full-grown werewolf, but I can't
find that reply using Y!Mort's search. So here it is again:

I can't imagine a pre-pubescent child turning into a full-grown wolf. 

I understand that the werewolf cub wouldn't be "adorable"; at least if
it scented human, it would go into the same desperate rage/hunger
compulsion to attack humans, and it would be just as infectious and
have sharp fangs. But it might be a little less  physically strong,
thus less likely to fight through the chains that confine it for the
protection of humans.  

While I was looking for something else, I stumbled upon the Lupin
quote, and found that it includes *both* 'great man' and 'nice man':
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2003/062
6-alberthall-fry.htm :

<< when I created Professor Lupin who has a condition that is
contagious of course and so people are very frightened of him and I
really like Professor Lupin, the character, because he's somebody who
also has his failing he's such a great man and he's a wonderful
teacher in fact I would say that Lupin is the one time I've written a
teacher I loved really liked to have had because Professor McGonnagol
is a very good teacher but she can be quite scary at times, very
strict. So Lupin's a wonderful teacher and a very nice man but he has
a failing and his failing is that he does like to be liked and that's
where he slips up because he has been disliked so often that he's
always so pleased to have friends so he cuts them and awful lot of
slack. >>

Ginger, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/117470 :

<< wondering if our own Catlady is really a full Muggle ;o) >>

*big smile* The late Bruce Pelz once asked if my brother and I had the
same middle name (it was my mother's mother's maiden name) because we
were named after a large friendly dog that we hoped would leave us a
fortune.

Eustace_Scrubb,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/117473 :

<< Professor Grubbly-Plank serving both as a short-term and long-term
substitute for Hagrid (wonder what she's up to when not
substituting?); >>

She must have some profession that involves Caring for Magical
Creatures. Maybe she's a veterinarian for magical creatures (she
treated Hedwig's wounded wing). Maybe she's a pet-sitter. 

I'd like to think that one thing you could do with a NEWT in CMC is go
into the Pest Control business -- people would owl you for help when
they found Chizpurfles or Bundiums or an Ashwinder trail in their
house. But there doesn't seem to be room for private enterprise in
that field -- FB keeps referring to Department for the Regulation and
Control of Magical Creatures (Pest Sub-Division). I suppose that if
Grubbly-Plank worked there, she couldn't take time off for a temp job
at Hogwarts. Maybe she has retired from there.

Pippin, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/117550 :

<< Why not regard the whole kit'n'caboodle -- text,
promos, chats, website, films and legosets etc. --- as a
multimedia work? >>

Isn't that the Claude Levi-Strauss theory?

DuffyPoo, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/117645 :

<< I don't think the hands are bandaged because he had to punish
himself over thebetrayal, at all. I think Beaky bit him. I don't know
why Beaky didn't eat him...would have saved all this trouble. ;) >>

But it might have poisoned poor Beaky.

Potioncat, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/117766
:

<< Dark Lord? Was the keeper of the Hall a (former) Death Eater? DD
doesn't tell us what the label said before. >>

Didn't someone (Kneasy?) already suggest that the Prophecy was so
labelled because of uncertainty as to *which* Dark Lord it referred?
Connected, perhaps, to the 'possession' theory.

Mimbeltonia, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGr
ownups/message/117656 :

<< Cedric Diggory was transfiguring a rock into a living dog etc. 
etc. >>

That reminds me -- it seems that the students do a lot of
transfiguring between living and inanimate things. Your example of
Cedric transfiguring a rock into a dog goes along with the class
exercise of transfiguring a teapot into a tortoise. (And there was
also hedgehog into pincushion. Does transfiguring a living creature
into an inanimate object kill it?) Does transfiguing an inanimate
object into a living creature *create* a life, a confusing
metaphysical act which usually only God(s) and messy biological
processes are believed able to do? Or is the so-called living creature
really a robot made of meat?