Heart/CAPSLOCK/clock/NotBully!Harry/Choice/Buried/HP'sCareer/Neville/badS

[Kelly Molinari]

No: HPFGUIDX 163547

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at ...> wrote:


> Kelly signed off from
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/163166> with:
> 
> << whose 6 children MADE her a Mrs. Weasley Clock for Christmas. >>

> Catlady's response:
> With the hands for their names or pictures permanently stuck at 'Being
> Good'?
> 



Kelly responds:
     The hands move around quite often, though I don't know how,
usually pointing at "HOME, SCHOOL, WORK or TRAVELLING". Occassionally
someome would find themselves in "MORTAL PERIL or LOST" but only for a
few hours. Thankfully no one has been in "PRISON or the HOSPITAL". For
general information: "BEING GOOD" is not a position on the clock.


> kat7555 wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/163152>:
> 
> << Once Harry was out of the Dursley household he could have become a
> bully like Dudley but he chose a different path. >>
> 

>SNIP of beginning of Catlady's response, continuing with: 
> I think it was part of Lily that she magically left with her son;
> thus, "Lily's eyes". I think Lily was able, with her magic, to put an
> image of herself in her baby's mind, that would be like an 'imaginary
> mum' (by analogy with 'imaginary friend') who would cuddle Harry and
> tell him that he's a good kid who doesn't deserve Dursley abuse and
> tell him about how decent people behave, thus being that one caring
> adult said to be necessary to even a 'resilient' child's survival of
> serious abuse... I kind of think Lily used her last magic to put this
> image in his head intentionally, instead of using her last magic in
> one last attempt to escape Voldemort. That is the heroic self-sacrifce
> that canon credits her, accepting her own death because it was more
> important to her to give her baby this protection of her love. I admit
> I don't know why she would do that if she really believed that he
> would be dead seconds after she was. 
> 
> When Harry resisted the Imperius Curse, the Curse's Moody-voice in his
> head told him to jump up on the desk, and "another voice had awoken in
> the back of his brain. Stupid to do, really, said the voice." I
> believe that that other voice is what's left of the image-Lily after
> all these years; she doesn't appear often, she appears as Harry's
> voice instead of her own, but she still is caring for Harry -- and
> still has free will.
> 
> In addition, so far we've always seen Harry wondering and trying to
> find out about his father, and not about his mother. Some say that's a
> plot device because JKR is saving some big surprise about Lily, and
> some say it's normal because Harry is 11 to 16 so far, puberty and
> adolescence, and much more concerned about a male image to identify
> with. But *I* say that he doesn't search so much for Lily because,
> unknown to himself, he already has her with him.
> 
>SNIP



Kelly adds:
     Has anyone ever thought that the Scar came from Lily and not
Voldemort? Some sort of Charm that caused the curse to bounce off.
Just a thought ...


>SNIP



> 
> Sunnylove wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/163352>:
> 
> << Why does Neville even come out of this episode alive and unhurt?
> I would expect a sadist like Bella to use the baby as a lever over
> Alice and Frank. Why doesn't she? >>
> 
> Catlady responds:
>Maybe his parents had thrown an Invisibility Cloak over him so Bella &
> friends didn't know he was there.


Kelly adds: If Neville was even there, Bella didn't care about
anything but finding Voldemort. I'm sure that she knew that Frank and
Alice told her all that they knew while she was Imperiousing them.
Using the baby Neville would be pointless. Now if Bella had heard
about the prophecy... what would have happened then? 



> Lois/fourpawsg wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/163521>:
> 
> << When did you all figure out when Snape was Bad? >>

> Catlady'd response:
> Meow <purr> or woof woof <wag>?
> I had to laugh at your question because I knew how many people on this
> list think Snape is good -- you've already gotten some of the replies
> saying so.
SNIP
> I felt confident that Snape was on the good side. But when he killed
> Dumbledore and fled the Tower -- I shouted out: "Rowling is good! Even
> after Snape killed Dumbledore, we still don't know which side he's on!"
>


Kelly: I sure hope we find out if Snape is one or the other. I don't
know if I can live with nagging questions on Snapes loyalties. I for
one think that Snape and only Snape can help Harry defeat Voldemort
now that Dumbledore is dead. The question is how long will it take for
Harry to realise this?


Kelly, hoping the wait for "Deathly Hallows" is shorter than I think
it will be.