ChoosingGoodnes/Snape/Albus/DragonMeat/Sex/Draco an Only Child /DE children

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

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SSSusan wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/126714 :

<< I think Nora's right in this. Look at Harry. He could easily have
become a selfish, whining, angry bully based on his "inside"
experience. But in fact he ended up quite different indeed from the
example set within his family. And, since this appears to have
developed in Harry prior to his entering Hogwarts -- without a whole
lot of other "outside" examples for influence -- it's seems at least
possible that Sirius experienced something similar. >>

Harry had other influences than his home life -- television and school
surely prominent among them. I think his school would have tried to
introduce the students to certain moral virtues, whether by preaching
about the Good Samaritan or assigning reading books about exemplary
children.

Vivian wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/126772 :

<< By the way, should we start thinking that Snape was at Godric's
Hollow too? >>

Remember that dream Harry had after being Sorted? IIRC it involved
Quirrel's turban, the Sorting Hat telling him to transfer to
Slytherin, Draco, and Snape turning into a green flash and LV's shrill
laugh? We know that the green flash and shrill laugh are what Harry
remembered of the Godric's Hollow Event, and I fancy that Draco (who
looks just like Lucius) and Snape in the dream come from Harry's
unconscious memory of Lucius and Snape being at there with LV.

Finwitch wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/126878 :

<< What are we to make of Albus' hair being auburn at the age of 100
and completely white 50 years later? >>

Maybe white hair is a symbol of rank for Headmasters; in GoF,
Karkaroff had black hair in the Pensieve memory but white hair in real
time.

<< Albino (blue eyes for humans, white hair, and no pigment
whatsoever.. >> 

Albino humans have red eyes like albino mice. I think you're thinking
of the white horses with blue eyes called Albino W to distinguish them
from white horses with red eyes called Albino A. I read that about
horses in a book when I was a child and, like whether pandas are
bears, it may have changed since then. The white cats with blue eyes
who are often deaf are called Dominant White or W, and the gene is
said to be related to that causing Wartenberg's Syndrome in humans.

<< How did they ever end up in a situation where Albus doesn't know
whether or not his brother can read?? >>

I think that was just an Albus joke: I imagine that he knows perfectly
well that his brother reads quite a lot. On the other hand, my DH says
that his brothers can't read except they miraculously gain the ability
when they're reading the Help Wanted ads or the Motors Manual.

Jeanette wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/126948 :

<< Would the dragon meat come from a wild dragon or as a side product
of the dragonskin leather industry? Do they farm dragons or is there
an elite group of hunters who supple the trade. >>

There is a Dragon Reservation in Rumania where Charlie Weasley
"studies" dragons. It seems to me more like a Dragon Ranch and
Charlie's interaction with the dragons lent to the TriWizard
Tournament seemed more like WRANGLING dragons than studying them. I
think that the dragon leather, dragon meat, dragon heartstring, dragon
blood, etc, are products of that Rumanian Dragon Reservation.

Hans Andrea wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/126951 :

<< This makes the point that there can be no sexual relationships on
the Path of Liberation. This is a point also made in the Alchemical
Wedding. The guests there are given the opportunity of sleeping with a
beautiful virgin, but when they hold a raffle all the men get men. >>

Of course pairing off all the men with men does not prevent all sexual
relationships.

Emma wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforG
rownups/message/126992 :

<< Given his family's obsession with bloodlines, why is Draco an 
only child?
(Snip)
His parents are trapped in a loveless marriage. (Arranged
marriages would fit with the bloodlines obsession.)>>

I personally believe that Lucius and Narcissa arranged their own
marriage, attracted by each other's bloodlines, shared ideas (e.g.
pureblood superiority), good looks, and common goal (gaining power in
the wizarding world). I think they work as a team and like each other
more than either of them like anyone else.  

<< His parents chose not to have more children. (Draco, like the
others in his year, was conceived and born almost at the height of
the last war. >>

I like to think there was Another Prophecy, which became known to
Voldemort or to Lucius Malfoy, which prophesied the birth of a child
with great powers (meaning Harry) conceived at a certain time (I said
Halloween 1979 but was told that was too long a pregnancy). In hopes
that this child's powers would be used to serve LV or LM, due to be
raised to be loyal to LV or LM, LV or LM ordered all his followers to
go make babies at the prophesied time. That would explain why there
are so many Death Eater children in the same year as Harry. Malfoy,
Crabbe, Goyle, Nott, we don't know if Parkinson pere and Bulstrode
pere were DES, and we don't know if there's a Macnair in Harry;s year
-- not all the names that start with M on the class list are legible.

Anyway, part of my idea is that Lucius and Narcissa are still very
young in wizarding years and were in no hurry to burden themselves
with even one child, but the Other Prophecy intervened.

Class List -- go to HPfGU webpage, go to Photos section, click on
"Harry Potter and Me" folder. There are legible transcriptions of the
names in some very old posts but the bookmarks are on my dead
computer.