Scar/Acromantula/Twins/SnapeSuffer/FoundersRooms/SortingNeville&Seamus

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 155471

Ken Hutchinson wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/155124>: 

<< end up looking like Mad-Eye. I could see this fear coming to pass
in the process of removing a soul fragment from Harry. Given Fleur's
example I can see Ginny not caring about how Harry looks too. I hope
the series ends on that note anyway, no matter how it is accomplished. >>

So the famous last word 'scar' is in a sentence like 'He laughed,
remembering when he been embarrassed about having one lone scar"?

Leah wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/155162>:

<< someone must have obtained an acromantula egg from South America
(FB says they live in Brazil) >>

*My* copy of FB says Acromantulae originated in Borneo. 

Marion Ros wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/155301>:

<< the same kid brother whose teddy they transformed into a spider,
giving him a lovely phobia, >>

"when I was three [so the twins were 5], Fred turned my - my teddy
bear into a great big fiIthy spider
because I broke his toy broomstick .... "

'Fred', not 'they'. I erased the rest of this paragraph because Eric
Oppen said it better (of course) in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/155346>.

"whose pet puffskein they've murdered when they used it as a bludger
at Quidditch practice >>

I'm inclined to think so -- just another example that Rowling doesn't
care about cruelty to animals. But when I went on about it at length,
someone pointed out that 1) Ron's scribble in FB doesn't say that it
died, 2) and magical people are extremely resilient (e.g. Neville
surviving the fall from the runaway broom in PS/SS) so magical beasts
might also be, 3) so maybe it wasn't killed or badly injured, just
pained and annoyed, so it ran away to a better home.

Alla wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/155358>:

<< At least hopefully JKR will fulfill my wish and would write **one**
scene with Snape suffering and helpless. >>

That was the OoP Pensieve scene.

Tonks_op wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/155416>:

<< I am wonder if each of the founders has a secret room in the castle. >>

I think that was recently suggested, with the Headmaster's Office as
the Gryffindor Room and the Kitchen as the Hufflepuff Room. Maybe the
 the Library (at least the Restricted Section) is the Ravenclaw Room,
rather than the Room of Requirement. Then the Great Hall could be the
room of all four Houses joining together.

While Dumbledore was the first person to mention what turned out to be
the Room of Requirement to us readers, I seriously doubt he was the
first person to discover it. When Harry found it as 'place to hide
things', it was a *huge* room stuffed to the gills with different
junk. I think it is supposed to have taken many hundreds of years of
hiding things in it to accumulate that much junk.

DD mentioned it in conversation with Karkaroff while dining at the
Head Table at the Yule Ball in GoF. If Karkaroff had never been a
Hogwarts student or staff member, then he wouldn't know to say "Oh,
that's the Room of Requirement, you must be the *las*t person to have
discovered it." Percy was listening in on the conversation, but Percy
would never contradict the Headmaster like that in public while the
Headmaster was still in Ministry favor. 

If Cedric or Roger or Parvati or Cho (I'm trying to think of Hogwarts
people at that table) heard the remark, if they knew about the RoR,
they wouldn't contradict their Headmaster, either. Harry, who did hear
it, and Hermione, who was positioned to hear it, apparently didn't
know about the RoR (because when they were looking for where to have
DA club, neither of them thought of RoR until Dobby suggested it).

Y'know, if DD said that simply to drop a hint to Harry, which Harry
didn't pick up on, then maybe he was supposed to walk his screaming
egg three times past that stretch of wall instead of waiting for
Cedric to give him the password to the prefect's bathroom...

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/155438>:

<< Yet Neville's placement in Gryffindor is not automatic. Possibly,
the Hat placed him there because he begged it to do so even though it
thought he was better suited to Hufflepuff.) >>

I think Sorting Neville took so long because the Hat wanted to put him
in Gryffindor almost immediately, but he argued with it, insisting he
only belonged in Hufflepuff. Eventually the Hat told him that anyone
who argues *that* vehemently with a powerful magical object has enough
courage to be in -- "GRYFFINDOR!" 

For many years I was *certain* that it *meant something* that it took
almost an entire minute to Sort Seamus. I thought maybe he would turn
traitor like Pettigrew at a particularly dramatic and dangerous moment
... Maybe his distrust of Harry in OoP foreshadowed that ... But now
it would seem out of left field to have a conversation like: Hermione:
"How could you give Harry to Voldemort for thirty pieces of silver?!
What kind of Gryffindor are you?!" Seamus: "The Sorting Hat wanted to
put me in Slytherin but I argued."