[HPforGrownups] Re: magic late in life

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 146267

On 1/11/06, hickengruendler <hickengruendler at yahoo.de> wrote:
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> Hickengruendler:
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> JKR said, that the person will do magic in "desperate circumstances".
> Therefore I don't think Voldemort will offer anyone to give them
> magic, if they fight for his side. I highly doubt, that's even
> possible, otherwise you would think that Filch already had asked
> Dumbledore to give him some magic. I am and always was a fan of the
> theory, that it's Filch, for two reasons.
>
> a.) He's a bigger character than Mrs Figg and therefore it seems more
> likely to me, that he will do something important.
> b.) Mrs Figg seems to be a pretty strong character even without the
> magic. I kind of admire her for rushing to help, when she realized
> there were Dementors around, even though she knew that she was
> helpless. She found her niche in life even without magic, while
> Filch, in spite of having a secure job, doesn't. Therefore, IMO Filch
> needs the magic more.
>
> I think both Hogwarts and the Dursley house will be attacked in book
> 7 and therefore both Filch and Figg are still legitimate candidates,
> but I would prefer Filch.
>
> Hickengruendler


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Kemper now:
Reading other threads as well, I don't like the idea of Filch either, but
would feel better if the desperate circumstances is saving Madam Pince from
harm or death.  That way it is the power of love (I'm assuming, as many are,
that they have romantic trists) that brings about Filch's unrevealed magic.
If this is the situation, then I'm all for Filch being the one late in
life.  But I will never, regardless of circumstanse, be okay with Figgy
being the one.

-Kemper


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