please, can you read this Harry-potterquestionnaire and keep it in mind when you're listing your own questions?

[Katty Geltmeyer]

No: HPFGUIDX 177966

Hey
Perhaps, someone of you was lucky enough
to obtain a golden ticket for j.K.
Rowling's "open book tour" in the USA or
Canada.

Please, can you read this questionnaire
and keep it in mind while you are
listing your own
"things to ask"?

I had no chance to obtain a ticket,
because I'm not living in the USA or
Canada.

Thanks a lot by advance for your help!

Sincerely,

Katty (from Belgium)

Questionnaire:

1a: Food is one of the first of five
Principal Exceptions to Gamps Law of
Elemental Transfiguration (Hermione told
this in dh15). Does this mean there
couldn't be wishing tables or wishing
clothes (cf. Household Tales, by
Brothers Grimm: e.g "The Wishing-Table,
the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the
Sack", "The Knapsack, the Hat, and the
Horn") in the
Harry-Potter-universe?

1b: What are the other 4 Principal
Exceptions to Gamps Law of Elemental
Transfiguration?

2: What's the core of the elder wand?

3: Some questions about werewolves:

a: How many werewolves are there in
Britain?
b: How exactly the illness of lycantropy
is working?
- When and for which creatures (only
humans) are werewolf bites dangerous?
- What will be the effect on
hmans/animals/animagi when they are
bitten by a werewolf in his
human/transformed form?
- In "Fantastic beasts and where to find
them", it was stated that only the bite
is dangerous for humans, though there
wasn't any case mentioned for prooving
this statement.

c: In HBP Lupin told us werewolf bites
are cursed. But how is this curse
exactly working? If its working as a
virus or micro-organism, the werewolf
(either transformed or in his human
form) has it in his blood and could give
it to others (Cf. the illness of rabies
by animals and hydrophobia by humans).
If that's the case, why didn't Sirius
become a werewolf after his fight with
Lupin? Cf. In Prisoner of Azkaban (also
in the film), Lupin transformed into a
werewolf and Sirius sent him back by
fighting him as padfood (his animal
form). After that fight, the dog was
covered with bites. But Sirius never
became a werewolf, although he was
bitten by one. If the bite contaminates
the blood of the animagus and this curse
is working like a virus or
micro-organism, the contamination would
still be there by the time he/she
becomes a human.

4: Some questions about horcruxes:

a: How does the proces of making a
horcrux exactly work? I mean: is the
murder, necessary to make a horcrux,
needed to happen simultaneously? If
that's the case, how could the murder
of the Riddle-family be used for making
a horcrux? I thought at the moment of
the murders, Voldemort didn't know how
to make one.

b: Is it necessary for the horcruxmaker
to kill somebody by himself, or can
he only cause the murder? I thought
Hokey killed her mistress by using a
poison, so, Hokey committed murder and
was the acting person. If you have to
commit murder for splitting your
soul, houw could Voldemort
use this murder for making a horcrux?
How did he kill Hepsiba Smit then?

c: Could the wand of a wizard become the
horcrux of it's owner?

d: By making a horcrux, is poisoning
someone as usefull as using the killing
curse, strangling somebody or another
directly way of
killing?

5: Is aunt Marge's dog Ripper named
after "Jack the Ripper"?

6: Could a blind-born wizard or witch
come to Hogwarts and learn magic?
He/she can't aim with a wand, nor see
something (object,
place, ...) in his/her mind, nor read
the books. Okay, they perhaps could
use wandless magic and non-verbal
spells. But these are an advanced use
of magic only capable and good wizards
can do so. But how to learn and practice
this kind of magic without learning
the use of the simple one?

7: Could someone do legilimency when
he/she wants to read the thoughts of a
person who's born blind? A blind born
person, don't have visual memories nor
visual thoughts: they don't see
something "in their mind".

8: Where is Fawkes now, and what will
happen with him?

9: Who made (or owned):
a: the Mirror of Erised
b: the opal necklace (Who cursed this
object?)

10: What did the centaurs do with
Umbridge after they took her into the
forest?  How did Dumbledore bring her
back?

11: Where could the school "Beauxbatons"
be located in France? Could there
be  any link with the things Hermione
said in chapter 1(Prisoner of Azkaban)
about her holidays in France? In that
chapter, she said: "There is some local
history of witchcraft here."
And later, in Goblet of Fire, she
mentioned she ate bouillabaisse during
that holiday. Could that passage in PA
(about that holiday) be refering to the
Albigenses?

12: In the first chapter of Philosopher
Stone, Dumbledore said to McGonagall
"I would trust Hagrid with my life,". Is
this of any significance, or is this
common used?

13: Was Merope a witch or a squib (as
her father called her, or was he just
insulting her)?

14: Was it significant Harry named his
snowy owl Hedwig?

15: How was Dumbledore's portrait
created? I mean: there was no painter
mentioned and Dumbledore was a very busy
man, so it would be difficult to portray him!

16: How is an Imperius curse exactly
working? I mean: if e.g. Malfoy has
casted the Imperius curse on Mrs Rosmerta,
would only he able to control her? If so,
when did Draco do this? When did he leave the
school?

17: Who's the current
headmaster/headmistress of Hogwarts?

18: Who's the wife of Draco malfoy? Did
he marry Pansy Parkinson?

19: The polyjuice potion containing
Harry's hair turned a clear, bright
gold. Does the look of that potion
containing somebody's hair tell us
something about that person? So, is
it significant/important?


20: Some questions about Fenrir
Greyback:
a: How old is he?
b: Who bit him?
c: Was he an adult or a child when he
received the bite? He seemed to be old
enough to have received a wand (cf.
dh23), so is this an indication to 
find how old he was at the time he
was bitten?

21: What happened with the Dursleys
after Voldemort's defeat?