Harry / Inquisitorial Squad / HH-GG-RR-SS/

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 121558


Del asked in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/121270 :

<< And of course there's still that unanswered question : what is that
power that Harry possesses that makes him the Vanquisher? What is it
that he has and that nobody else has?  >>

I think it really ought to be the scar connection with LV. That would
make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Angie wrote in 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/121434 :

<< I'm sure Harry did well just to get the Dursley's to pay for
glasses -- I can't see them springing for Lasic! >> 

Brits have posted that the Dursleys didn't pay for Harry's glasses,
that the round black plastic frames are what the National Health provides.

Nora wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/121431 :

<< That subplot, IMO, really torpedoed the idea (prevalent in fanfic
and other outre realms) that the Slytherins were oh-so-deeply loyal to
Snape. >>

Not unless there is an example of the Inquisitorial Squad tattling on
Snape to Umbridge -- I don't recall there being one. While I *suppose*
that canon!Draco is loyal only to his parents, and canon Draco's
clique are loyal only to Draco, canon has not *shown* us that they
didn't think they were helping Snape, that Umbridge would give him a
very high evaluation for having such useful students in his House. 

<< JKR has told us (per interview, natch) that the DEs go back aways,
as the "Knights of Walpurgis" >>

But her interview DID NOT say that the Knights of Walpurgis were
devoted to racism before Voldemort got a hold of them. Probably they
were, but for all WE know they were scholarly researchers into
immortality. 

Tonks_op wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/121439 :

<< HH, SS, GG, RR. put together with the name Hogwarts. >>

I have a theory that the Founders built their school on a place named
Hogwald, between Hoglake and Hogmount, so Godric (their de facto
leader) was planning to name it Hogwald School. But Salazar and Rowena
complained that the name contained Godric and Helga's initials but not
theirs. So Godric said: Okay, HoGwaRtS, that has all the initials,
happy now? 

I don't think there's any great meaning to the alliteration (wizards
like it, JKR likes it, like Severus Snape and Dedalus Diggle and
Filius Flitwick and so on) because I assume that those were epithets
rather than family names, and the people who gave the nicknames would
have liked alliteration, too..

Alla wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/121478 :

<< But don't forget that in JKR world REAL witches were not afraid of
those burnings and saved themselves, while who really suffered were
muggle folks. >> 

I think that is one of those false statements put in children's
textbooks to get them to have the 'right' attitudes. The tale of
Wendelin the Weird and her Flame-Freezing Charm wouldn't have to be
literally false to have been an extremely unusual situation, but it
would give a false impression to emphasize that unusual rather than
the (perhaps far more common) cases in which wizards and witches WERE
burnt by Muggles, having been caught without their wands or the
Muggles were able to take their wands away from them. That false
impression, that Muggles can't harm wizarding folk, would be useful to
keep children from questioning the general assumption that Muggles are
weak and unable to do very much, thus inferior. Otherwise, smart-ass
kids like me might raise their hands to ask: "If Muggles are so weak
and helpless, how were they able to kill so many people who had magic?"