HBP's notes/Lupin on GH night/non-Latin spell/Love Potion/fetalLV/ Marge/Nev

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 148474

a_svirn wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/148270 :

<< What can you possibly tell about the boy in the textbook, except
that he's talented in Potions and Dark Arts? Unlike the Pensive
Episode or Riddle's Diary, it does not reveal much about his
personality. Certainly there is nothing to suggest that he's "good"
much less "like Harry".  Admmitely, there is nothing to suggest that
he's "bad" either, but still it's hardly a key to his soul. >>

We can tell that he's a smart-ass, based on the 'Just shove a bezoar
down their throats' note. To some listies, that *is* his good quality.
Perhaps someone who has read more of the notes written in the textbook
than we have could have learned more about him, a sense of humor, a
taste for literary references, a style of magic...

a_svirn wrote in 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/148342 :

<< from where she stood Lupin simply did not feature in it. For the
simple reason that he didn't take his part in the final showdown.
Which, in turn, poses another question: just why didn't he take his
part in it? >>

I've always thought it happened on a Full Moon night, while Remus was
chained up in the garden shed. When he returned to human, his world
had shockingly changed.

Lolita wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/148358 :

<< On the other hand, I find it interesting that [Avada Kedavra] is
the only spell in HP (as far as I remember) that isn't based either 
on sth that resembles English or on broken Latin. >>

Alohomora. There has been a suggestion that '-mora' comes from Latin,
'mura', wall, but I have heard no suggestion that 'aloho-' comes from
Latin or English.

Alla wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/148407 :

<< And Tom Riddle Sr. and Merope seem like such a nice foreshadowing
for Snape possibly wanting to drug Lily with Love Potion and (maybe?)
abandoning such idea at some point. Heeee! You know my not very
flattering opinion of his moral character. :) >>

Many teens have wanted to give someone a Love Potion ... me included.
Wanting to is not a sign of bad moral character. 

Jen wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/148411 :

<< JKR did say in the TLC/MN interview there was something significant
about the fetal form Voldemort took prior to a full body: >>

I think uglybaby!Voldemort looked like a fetus because that body had
been made in poor Bertha's womb -- mind destroyed, her body could
still be used as an incubator.

Geoff wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/148462 :

<< It is interesting that Petunia actually vetoes Aunt Marge
because she "hates the boy". Seems to run counter to some of the
treatment they hand to him elsewhere. >>

I thought Petunia meant that Marge would refuse to babysit the hated boy.

Eggplant wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/148464 :

<<  His grandfather might have been killed to induce his parents to
talk if torture wasn't working. >>

Neville's grandfather might have died peacefully of old age, in bed,
surrounded by family members and a private nurse, after Neville was
already living with his gammer and gaffer.