When?

[Barry Arrowsmith]

No: HPFGUIDX 118655

Interesting spread of ideas amongst the responses,
with Veelas leading the pack.

I can understand why some would make this choice,
which of course is a lead-up to me saying that I'll stiil
look for other explanations. The Veelas certainly have
a compulsive effect, no doubt about it, but would the
organisers of  the QWC allow massed Unforgivable
curses to be thrown around?

I suspect that Veelas are another mythological reference that JKR has 
slipped into  her books, this time from Ulysses - Sirens.
Half woman, half bird, singing songs so sweet that the hearer was 
entranced and forgot everything else, eventually dying of hunger. 
Ulysses wants to  hear the siren's song, so he tied himself to the 
mast. His oarsmen had their ears stopped up with wax and were 
unaffected.

And when the Veelas get annoyed:
  "their faces were elongating into sharp, cruel-beaked bird heads, and 
long, scaly wings were bursting from their shoulders."
Plus their influence can be negated by stuffing your fingers in your 
ears - as Arthur tells the boys to do at one point and as the 
medi-wizard does when giving the referee a kick.

So, I may be wrong but I've got a reasonable excuse for differing.

I really hope that  this missing Imperio! isn't another little wrinkle 
somewhere in the murky obscurity  of GH  and the missing 24 hours. Oh, 
dear. That'd be verging on the unfair IMO. One miniscule hint and then 
presenting it as a key part of the eventual explication is liable to 
cause mutterings from the back of the audience.

Time to scour the canon - again. Are there any passages were it looks 
as if Harry's behaviour is not what one would expect given the 
circumstances? And where this is repeated so it could be considered a 
trend? Can't think of any off-hand.

It  can be hard work being a  fan.

Kneasy