MuggleSpouses/QuibblerCopyrights/Locusts/Hermione/Dursleys/Draco

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 124875


Sandy asked in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/124532 :

<< How do you suppose these witches/wizards met their muggle mates? It
seems to me that a wizard would have to make a concerted effort to
seek out a muggle to date and marry, because normally, their paths
just don't cross. >>

It seems to me that the most likely way for a pureblood wizard/witch
to meet a Muggle future spouse is by visiting a Muggle-born school
friend, thus meeting the family and maybe some of the neighbors and
pre-Hogwarts friends of the Muggle-born friend. However, that seems
unlikely to apply to Dean Thomas: if his parents met because his
father was a Muggle-born wizard who brought home a school friend who
fell in love with the Muggle sister, the Muggle sister would have
known that her brother was a wizard and went to a wizarding school, so
she would have known that his school friend was a wizard. In addition,
if her brother out-lived her husband, her brother would have known
about him being killed by Death Eaters, and told her.

<< Wizards, on the other hand, would have to give up a lot of basic
magic to live in a muggle house, or they'd interfere with the
electricity we muggles so depend on. >> 

I'm not sure. The vast amount of magic at Hogwarts prevents electrical
devices from working, but one wizard's magic, a couple of wizards'
magic, in a Muggle house might not be enough to interfere with
electricity.

Darkthiry summarized Chapter 38 in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/124570 :

<< a reprint of The Quibbler article, which Luna's father sold to the
Prophet for a sum that will allow them to go to Sweden to seek a
Crumple-Horned Snorkack. >>

Being as how people write for the Quibbler for free, I imagine that
the usual contract (perhaps only printed on the address page with the
statement that sending in an article constitutes giving permission to
print it) is that the writer is giving the Quibbler first publication
right only, and all other rights (reprint rights, movie rights, etc)
revert to the writer. So if Hermione forced Skeeter to sign a special
contract giving Mr Lovegood all rights, that was extra nasty of
Hermione.

Dumbledad wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/124593 :

<< "His food was locusts and wild honey." (Matthew 3:4) Wild honey?
Yes. Locusts? I don't think Dumbledore or Ron will be ordering locusts
anytime soon. >>

I thought those "locusts" were not insects, but rather carob tree
pods. After all, another name for carob pods is "St. John's bread".
Y'know, carob pods, what they make bad fake chocolate out of? They're
street trees around here.

Northsouth wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/124615 :

<< it's Hermione, not Harry, who's going to be the next Minister for
Magic. >>

This is a forbidden "I agree" post.

<< shows an ability to be really, really nasty when she needs to. >>

I've never wondered why Hermione isn't in Ravenclaw, but ever since
drugging Crabbengoyle in Book 2, I've wondered why the Sorting Hat
didn't put her in Slytherin.

Phoenixgod wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/124621 :

<< Except for Hermione lacks this thing called Charisma. Social grace.
Likeability. Leadership quality. Stuff like that Hermione is gifted in
many ways but being a politican fits none of her skill sets. She would
make a good political operative or advisor, at least to a reformer
politician, but she could never be the face of a political team. She's
just not leadership material. >>

That's why she should marry Ginny so Ginny can supply the charisma
part of the team.

Becky wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/124546 :

<< Those who see an alternative [home for orphan baby Harry], what is
it? (Snip) Dumbledore maybe? - No. He is headmaster of a school. I
can't see a Hogwarts being a good place to bring up a one year old.
Plus, as headmaster (and someone very high up in other wizard
institutions) he would have far too many other pressures on his time
to give a one year old the attention needed. Not realistic. (Pretty
much the same goes for MM. What would she do with him when she was
teaching classes?) >>

I don't agree that a school is a bad place to bring up a baby; if I
recall A.A.Milne's autobiography correctly, his father was a
headmaster and he loved his childhood. In addition, Hogwarts is a very
well protected place. I agree that Dumbledore is a very busy man, but
so are most parents. That's what nannies are for. I nominate Madam
Pomfrey. (It's funny that I'm saying this, because I accept DD's
explanation of Harry having been in so much danger that he had to be
put in the MOST PROTECTION place.)

Lupinlore wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/124402 :

<< The only things we can ascribe Harry's so-called "good emotional
health" to are:
1) poor writing on JKR's part,
2) sheer luck shining of Dumbledore's decisions.
Out of deference to the author, I think we prefer option #2 to option
#1. >>

Or 3) The magical protection that Lily put on her baby also protected
his mental health. (I prefer to believe that it did so by putting a
little model of Lily into baby Harry's mind, like the cliched
imaginary friend, to tell him he's a good kid who doesn't deserve all
this Dursley abuse, and to remind him how good people behave.)

If Dumbledore didn't know that Lily's magic protected Harry's mental
health, that is option 2: Dumbledore was lucky that Lily had done that
spell. But if Dumbledore DID know about it, then what?

Arynn Octavia wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/124507 :

<< Harry sufferes more than Draco, and never whines EVER. Yet Draco
has the devoted following. I suspect it has to do more with Tom Felton
that Draco Malfoy >>

Draco had a devoted following before the first movie was ever cast (as
did Snape), so those crushes cannot simply be blamed on the actors.
*Perhaps* Draco's attraction can be blamed on the fanfic trilogy by
Cassandra Claire (Draco Dormiens, Draco Sinister, Draco Veritas),
which began when a friend asked her to write a story that turned Draco
good, and she also turned him intelligent and gave him a bit of
backbone while she was at it. The added intelligence plus canonical
sarcasm = snarky wit. Wealth, posh accent ("drawl') and being a good
broom-flyer are canonical. Alas, part of the attraction of Fanon!Draco
is the attractee's unconsciously buying into the class system. Some of
us are a little bit House Elf inside....

Betsey wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/124452 :

<< I also felt a great deal of sympathy for Draco during the
Gryffindor/Slytherin Quidditch final in PoA. (snip) Draco is the one
to spot the Snitch, Draco is the one who first goes for it, and Harry
beats him to it, not out of any flying skill but on sheer speed that
has everything to do with his Firebolt. Draco is defeated because he
doesn't have the top of the line broom. >>

This is a forbidden "I agree!!!" post.