Petunia/Headmaster/LVatHogwarts/Mobiliarbus/GH/Lupin=Tutor?/Magic Quill/ Baby

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 158391

Tonks_op wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/158164>:

<< Imagine the pure shock of discovering that the `neighbors' are part
of the WW too! When Petunia sees Mrs. Figg doing magic, Petunia will
not know that this is Figgy's first successfully attempt. Petunia will
say to herself "my God, they are everywhere!!" "They are my
NEIGHBORS!!" And a great change will come over Petunia because of this. >>

I don't think 'discovering' that Mrs Figg is a witch will change
Petunia's mind, because I think Petunia already thinks that Mrs Figg
is a 'mad old woman' whom she might well attempt to run out of the
neighborhood, or at least snub and ignore, if she didn't need her to
babysit Harry.

zgirnius wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/158166>:

<< Personally, I am happy with the idea that young Lupin
misunderstood, and Dumbledore had been Headmaster for years when he
started. Lupin's folks just had no idea until Lupin got his Hogwarts
letter, that any such thing would be happening, and had prepared Lupin
for the knowledge that he would not be going to school like the other
little wizards and witches. When he did get the letter, they
attributed it to the new Headmaster (meaning, new to them, not brand
spanking new). >>

This is a forbidden 'I agree' post.

bboyminn wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/158169>:

<< Everything Voldemort is ultimately seeking could have been his, if
he had only followed a different path. >>

Except immortality. (I don't know why Voldie wants immortality -- he
doesn't appear to find this life so enjoyable that he can't stand for
the fun to end. And I am sure that even his life will be even less
enjoyable after he has achieved his other goal of killing all the
people and destroying all the nice things.)

Snow wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/158176>:

<< thinking about it now, when would Voldemort have had the chance to
place the curse if it wasn't then? >>

The 'Vanishing Cabinet' at Hogwarts was probably already there. If the
one at Borgin and Burkes's was also already there, he could have
learned that they were connected and thus had free run of Hogwarts.

zanooda wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/158180>:

<< Next, Hermione used "mobiliarbus" spell in PoA. Maybe she read
about it somewhere, but it seems like she created it right there on
the spot from two parts, "mobili" being part of many similar spells
(Lupin used Mobilicorpus later). >>

I want to know why Tonks used 'Locomotor trunk!' instead of
'Mobilicista!' (IIRC it was 'cista' we decided when wondering what is
Latin for 'trunk'.)

<< If indeed she created it herself, she had to know that "arbus "
means "tree". >>

Someone has pointed out that Mobiliarbus is a very famous spell from
history, being the one that moved Birnham Wood to Dunsinane, so
Hermione would surely have read about it.

Which reminds me, did Shakespeare give any names of the three witches
in Macbeth?

Abergoat wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/158321>:

<< perhaps because Harry has already started wondering how Hagrid
could claim Snape was at Godric's Hollow trying to get the Potters to
leave... >>

Refresh my memory -- when did Hagrid say that?

BAW wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/158325>:

<< Perhaps that is what Lupin did before coming to Hogwarts -- giving
in-home magical instruction to wizardling children -- muggleborn or
others -- whose parents for whatever reason prefered not to send them
away. >>

While that would explain the 'Professor' on his name-tag on his
beat-up old suitcase, it seems to me that if wizards 'shunned [Lupin]
all [his] adult life, unable to find paid work because of' being a
werewolf, they would refuse to give him a child-care job even more
than an office job. Because they'd be more afraid of tender, juicy
children being harmed by the werewolf than adults.

Cliff wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/158375>: 

<< As there is room for just five boys and five girls in each House, a
total of twenty each per year, are magical children born too late
turned away? Is that how Argus Filch became a squib, born too late in
the year? Or is the list kept open in case a magical child dies? >>

Hogwarts is a castle where doors are sometimes there and sometimes
not, and rooms are in different locations of the same floor depending
on their mood (so I suppose the students need magic to even FIND their
classroom for each class session). It seems likely to me that their
dorm rooms can grow or shrink a little, so as to fit maybe 2 to 7
residents. If there were e.g. *fifteen* girls in the same year in the
same House, I guess two extra dorm rooms would come into their House
from some other part of the Castle, to make room. Gryffindor Tower,
for example, wouldn't have to be any bigger or smaller on the outside
to be bigger or smaller on the inside.

I have quite a different problem with the magic quill writing down the
magic children when they are born in Britain (or in the British
Isles): what about magic children who were born outside of the British
Isles but their parents emigrated to Britain or returned to Britain
before the kids turned 11? They wouldn't be on Hogswarts' list. I
think it would be much better if the quill wrote the list each
Midsummer Day of all the magical children who would be eligible for
the entering class starting that September. That would also answer the
question people used to have: if Neville's grandmother was afraid he
didn't have enough magic to go to Hogwarts, why didn't she ask
Professor McGonagall to look him up in that Book among the kids born
in 1980?

a_svirn wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/158374>:

<< bboyminn: << Let's take a real muggle life example. The police find
the muggle parents murdered and only a infant surviving. Are they
going to hand over the baby to the first person who comes along?
Definitely not; Social Services is going to take the infant into
protective custody until a **suitable** guardian can be found. >>

a_svirn:
You are totally wrong, you know. In real life Social Services would
only get involved if a child's parents died intestate, without
appointing a guardian and thus leaving their kid in the lurch. If
they were prudent enough to take care of the matter and appoint a
legal guardian (as the Potters did) the said guardian steps in their
shoes right away. They can appoint a guardian in their Will (which
is better since they can made financial arrangement as well) or they
can follow the Children Act guidelines. Either way the Social
Services will be satisfied unless they will have a very good *legal*
reason not to. Believe me it's the law. Or look it up if you don't
believe me. >>

I don't know anything about the law, but I hate to think that if the
police went into a house and found only some dead adults and one live
baby, they would leave the baby there with no living person to look
after it until the dead people and the baby have been identified and,
if the baby's parents were among the dead, their will has been found
(and probated?). And I suspect they don't call a babysitter to look
after it in that house, lest evidence be disturbed.