Wizarding farm / Kendra / Xenophilius's ugly necklace

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 179515

Steve bboy_minn wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/179346>:

<< And as long as we are on the subject of cooking, which ties to the
subject of food, where do wizards get their food? >>

Agatha Timms had an eel farm, because she bet half of it on the
Quidditch World Cup with Bagman. People do eat eels (I had some fried
eel at a sushi restaurant, I think they call it unagi, that was quite
tasty). 

When the Trio visited St Mungo's, the portrait that claimed that Ron's
freckles were splattergroit told him to stand neck deep in a barrel of
eels' eyes under the Full Moon. It occurred to me that it would take a
lot of eels to fill that barrel, and perhaps Madam Timms raised them
only for the eyes as a magical ingredient rather than raising them as
a food.

Steve bboy_minn wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/179375>:

<< we also see a lot of unusual names (Luna, Mundungus, Albus,
Aberforth, Rubeus). >>

None of those characters were Muggle-born. I wouldn't have had a
problem with an early to middle 19th century Kendra if she had been
Wizard-born.

Speaking of Luna, one of my small disappointments is that Ollivander
wasn't her grandfather. Her late mother could have been his daughter.
And I would have preferred Luna's adult career to have been as a wand
maker rather than as a naturalist.

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/179417>:

<< As we find out later, Xenophilius, like DD and GG before him, is in
quest of the Hallows >>

And Xenophilius says something about all seekers of the Hallows wear
the symbol to identify themselves to each other, so that they can
update each other on their discoveries. As soon as he said that, it
struck me as idiotic. Do competitors in a scavenger hunt tell each
other the clues they've found so far? It would be very unpleasant for
Xenophilius if he gave a 'fellow Seeker' the idea that he had found
one Hallow already, and the other Seeker cut his throat in his sleep
in case that one Hallow was the Wand.