Some More Questions and Comments on OOTP.

[Richard Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 127091


I have finished my rereading of the OOTP and have some questions and 
comments:

(1) What are the magical portraits in DD's office and elsewhere?  
They talk, have emotions, sleep, travel to other portraits.  What are 
they and how are they created?

(2) How do thestrals find places?  (For that matter, how did post 
owls find Sirius when he was in hiding and how do they muggle houses 
like Hermione's?)  Do they read the mind of their riders?  I think 
London cabbies have to pass a written test on the streets of London 
because the place is so complicated, but the thestrals found London, 
the Ministry, and the visitors' entrance without any problem.

(3) Why was there no night guard on duty at the Ministry the night of 
the battle?  There was the might Sturgis Podmore was caught.  Or was 
there a guard and the D.E.'s knocked him out and hid him (clearing 
the path for Harry)?  How did LV waltz into London and the Ministry 
undetected?

(4) Why were Harry, Ginny, and Neville entranced by the veil and the 
others not?  Why could Harry and Luna hear voices and the others 
didn't?

(5) The D.E. Dolohov tried to use "Accio Prophecy" to get the 
prophecy.  Why didn't Lucius just use that from the start before 
Harry knew he was there?  He could have avoided a fight that he lost.

(6) The prophecy says "neither can live while the other survives."  
Well, aren't both LV and Harry living now?

(7) All that stuff in the DoM on time: I'm guessing time-travel will 
reappear.

(8) Notice how much more significant Hermione and Neville were in the 
DoM than Ron or Ginny.  I'm thinking that means in Books 6 and 7, 
they will be still more prominent.  And the fact that all six were in 
this fights means that all six will significant as a group in Books 6 
and 7.

(9) Ron's brain attack will be significant.  DD said there will be 
no "lasting damage," but Pomfrey noted that "thoughts could leave 
deeper scars than almost anything."

(10) Do Hermione's parents know about all the danger Harry keeps 
putting her in?  And, if they do, what do they think about it?

(11) I don't understand the significance of the scene with Luna 
saying that lost things will return and her easing Harry's pain a 
little.  I can't believe it means that Sirius is going to return.

(12) Harry is angry at the loss of Sirius, disappointed with DD, and 
depressed about the murder in the prophecy — HBP ain't going to be no 
light comedy.

Richard Jones