[HPforGrownups] Room for Debate (ws Re: J.K. Rowling Comments )

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 164752

As I have been going through the latest messages I am very impressed
with the talent and thought of my fellow members and like others I am
very excited about the upcoming release of DH. To celebrate, I am
going to read one chapter a day until I have the great book in my
hands. There are 162 days left and there are 162 chapters, not
including the school books. I feel my post-Potter depression lifting
and it feels great.

> va32h wonders:
> I really don't think there is anything wrong with wanting to know
> *more*, I just don't understand why people can't be content to just
> fill in the blanks for themselves on stuff that is really,
ultimately
> unimportant. Those missing Gryffindor girls - who cares? If they
have
> to have names, call them Ann and Betty and be done with it. Or,
just
> decide that there are only three girls in Harry's year. Those girls
> are never mentioned, because they don't matter.
>
> What is the Fat Lady's backstory? No idea. Maybe it would be fun to
> invent one - surely just as fun as working out ways that Harry
could
> be an accidental horcrux.

Sam2sar here

I don't think those details are essential but I still want to know. I
am very curios and I feel that those little detail will make the
story complete and help provide closure. If too many details are left
out I will feel let down. Harry has been in my life from before I
became married and had kids. He is like a very good friend and when
DH has been read I am sure that I will feel like I have lost a close
friend. That is why I want the little details, I know little thing
about my friends and love them for it

> va32h, who is too busy trying not to think about how Dementors
breed to worry how they dig a grave.

Sam2sar here
More then that I wonder how you tell the difference between the male
and female dementors. I doubt any one wants to lift up their robes.
(shudders)
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Jeremiah:

Yuck. I got totally grossed out when I read that the Dementors are breeding.
As far as telling the male from the female (assuming they have that kind of
delineation) it's probably in their "rattle." Assuming a hetero-normative
approach... boy dementors have a deeper rattle?

I know the whole "mating" thing freaks people out where they are concerned.
I would have thought it was like this one species of lizards her ein the US
(and there are other species that do this, but this is one I have heard
about) where all the lizards are female and they all lay eggs and the eggs
just hatch. I'd hate to have to imagine a Demetor mating ritual... Dinner, a
movie, suck some sould out of unsuspecting people and then... I don't hink
they'd have a good-night kiss, though. Might be a bit tricky.

I also have wondered how Dumbledore didn't know about the secret passage
behind the Witch with the Hump. And, I know this will be a bit of a shocker,
so pay attention... what was the yellow tent-like thing Hargid was knitting
on the tube? I'm a knitter (and a boy knitter, to boot) and I want to know!
Was it a sweater? An afghan? A blanket for his pumpkins? Maybe a doggie
sweater for Fang (can't you see Fang sporting a bright, canary yellow
sweater)? Maybe a present for Aragog... or maybe he was actually knitting a
tent... JKR! Waht was it!

Jeremiah: who loves all the knitting in the books and covets all the cool
knitting in the movies, too.

(And thanks for the kind words, Carol. Poor Imbridge... she's just
misunderstood and needs some kindness. Or a good thrashing... either way...)


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