QUIDDITCH THROUGH THE AGES BY KENNILWORTHY WHISP

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 165100

If anybody would like to discuss this book as it relates to cannon, 
here are some discussion starters. (and of course feel free to add 
your questions)

1.   "A warning: If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, 
disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner 
damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the 
consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them.
Irma Pince, Hogwarts Librarian"

I am always quite skeptical about the theories of Madam Pince being 
Snape's mother in disguise, but when I read this warning, I was 
thinking that she does sound a bit like Snape here or does she? 
Thoughts?

2. Dumbledore wrote the foreword to this book as well and he 
describes the conversation with Madam Pince, which I found 
interesting. When he persuades Madam Pince to part ways with one of 
the copies of the books to reproduce to Muggles, she suggests some 
alternatives to that such as telling people from Comic Relief U.K. 
that the library had burned down, or simply **pretending that I had 
dropped dead without leaving instructions**.
Thoughts?

3. Oh, and that Madam Pince per Dumbledore had been known to **add 
unusual jinxes to the books in her care**. HBP anybody?


4. "Those few Animagi who transform into winged creatures may enjoy 
flight, but they are a rarity. The witch or wizard who finds him or 
herself transfigured into a bat may take to the air, but, having a 
bat's brain, they are sure to forget where they want to go the 
moment they take flight"

Will we see some more flying Animagi in canon besides Rita dearest?

5. I am not very interested in technical developments of the 
Quidditch itself, but I was curious about something when reading how 
the existence of Golden Snitch came to the existence. As we all know 
some guy named Barberus Bragge, who was chief of wizarding council 
in 1269, brought the cage with the little birdie Golden Snidget to 
the game of quidditch and promised 150 galleons to the player who 
will catch the birdie.

There was a witch who took pity on poor bird, summoned her and 
released away from Quidditch field. Poor witch was fined ten 
galleons and her house was about to be seized, so as she writes her 
sister she is coming to live with her. You can find the whole letter 
on the pages 12-13 of the book. I found two things to be interesting.

The witch (Madame Rabnott) is happy that she was not turned into 
horned toad (That makes me think that the mentioning of horned toads 
in GoF is not accidental) and she is also glad that they did not 
take the Hipoggriff from her. Does it mean that Hippogriffs are 
easier to tame than we were lead to believe? Were they more spread 
as house pets or something in 13th century?

6. Oh, and that was raised in the past on the list, but I may as 
well mention it again. The invention of the Golden Snitch is 
credited to the wizard Bowman Right from Godric Hollow.  The 
ancestor of James Potter, maybe?

Alla