Some Sybil questions (or questions on the Sybil...)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 124848


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
 
> > 
> > 1. Canon is silent on how old she is. 
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> Well, I'll take ahot at your questions and see if I can add anything
> to the mix.
> 
> I speculate that Sybil is older than Snape (35) and younger than
> McGonagall (70), so that places her in the 50 to 60 range. Which in
> turn implies that she got her job at Hogwarts at the age of 35 to 45
> (in round numbers). 

Hickengruendler:

Maybe I am influenced by the movie, but I think even before seeing it 
I imagined her to be in her fourties, maybe even early fourties. I 
suppose it's because I have the impression that she spendt most of 
her life in Hogwarts and was in her twenties when she was hired. But 
it's just speculation anyway.
 
> 
> 
> > Ffred: #2. Was there no psychic ability in the two intervening
> > generations? Does that mean that Seers have to be female?
> > 
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> Oddly, if we look at the real world, most psychics do seem to be
> female. Can we assume that translates as well into the wizard 
world? 

Hickengruendler:

No. One of the prophecies the sextett destroyed in the DoM was one 
from a man.
 
> 
> 
> > Ffred: #4. Given that Hogsmeade is walking distance of Hogwarts, 
why
> > did Dumbledore go to interview her rather than asking her to go 
to 
> > the castle?
> > 
> 
 
Hickengruendler:

It was necessariy for the plot. ;-)
 
> 
> > Ffred: #5. The question about who the eavesdropper was has been 
> > frequently discussed, so I won't pose it again, just to point out 
> > that it couldn't have been Peter ...edited...
 > bboyminn:
> 
> Peter could have been the eavesdropper, I don't have a problem with
> that and even find the idea somewhat appealing. 

Hickengruendler:

I agree with Ffred on that point. The eavesdropper was caught, after 
all. If it were Peter, then Dumbledore and the Potters would have 
known it and never made him secret-keeper.  

Hickengruendler