DD-Erised/Calling by Surname/The Box/Sorting AlbusSeverus/Sorting DeanThomas

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 177072

Finwitch wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/176954>:

<< Dumbledore- He might have just refused to answer, could he not? I
think he told the truth but not the whole truth. I think he might have
seen himself holding socks, but also Ariana. The socks being a
christmas gift from her to Albus - or from Albus to her. (I do wonder
about Albus reading knitting patterns...) >>

Before DH, I had always theorized that DD was telling the truth about
what he saw in the Mirror, just not the whole truth; I figured it was
the ugly, uncomfortable hand-knit socks that his late beloved wife or
mother had given him every Christmas, and his real desire was his lost
beloved person, not the socks. I hadn't thought it would be a sister.

I always thought DD's remark to Slughorn and Harry about looking at
the Muggle knitting magazines in the loo was *completely* in jest,
which with my track record makes it very likely that DD was completely
addicted to knitting.

Kemper wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/176956>:

<< I think it's appropriate to his character that he's referred by his
surname. It only seems to be Cissy, Lily and Albus who refer to Snape
with his first name. They are also the only ones who show any sort of
empathy or intimacy (not sexual) to him. Everyone else he keeps at arm
and wand's length. >>

And Igor. There was some kind of intimacy in that relationship, even
if the relationship was only that when they were both Death Eaters,
they were sent on assignments together. Maybe they knew each other
even before they became Death Eaters. We now know that Karkaroff was
never Potions Master at Hogwarts nor Head of Slytherin House (because
Slughorn was filling those posts), but has it been ruled out that he
could have taught another subject at Hogwarts and had Snape as
favorite student?

And Remus, but I think he was following DD's instruction that Hogwarts
Professors should call each other by first name and Order members
should call each other by first name, possibly motivated by the
pleasure that it irritated Severus.

And Minerva: "Really, Severus," said Professor McGonagall sharply, "I
see no reason to stop the boy playing Quidditch. This cat wasn't hit
over the head with a broomstick. There is no evidence at all that
Potter has done anything wrong."

Potioncat wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/176957>:

<< What event that must have happened off page, whether or not it was
described, is one you'd like to read? So? What would you be looking
for? >>

My answwer is approximately the same as Alla's. The event I would want
to read is The Prank. Some people want to read it to find out whether
Sirius was being an attempted murderer or just an idiot. I'm certain
he was being just an idiot, but I'm very curious how he induced
Severus to go down the tunnel.

And what I would be looking for all through the manuscript is anything
that can be taken as evidence for the Sirius/Remus ship.

In addition, I want to know whether there is actually something the
Bloody Baron could *do* to punish Peeves (what could he do and why
can't anyone else do it?). Or maybe Carol is right and Peeves is
scared of the Baron just because the Baron has such a bad temper that
if he *could* do something, he *would* do it.

Leah wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/177035>:

<< What's the child going to choose - the house of a brave dead man
who is only a name to the boy, the house about which his brother has
been teasing him unmercifully all the way to Kings Cross and for some
time before, or the house of his parents, and all his grandparents,
and his older brother? >>

I want little Albie Sevvie to choose Slytherin (where they will call
him Severus) and I've planned out how it can happen. On the Hogwarts
Express, Albie and Rosie find Jamie and his friends re-uniting after
the holiday. Jamie introduces them to those of his friends who aren't
Weasleys as 'this is my idiot little brother Albie and my obnoxious
little cousin Rosie' and the friends join him in 'teasing' the
'babies'. Rosie throws it right back at them ("YOu're just jealous
that you can't be as obnoxious as I can") but Albie is sensitive and
makes an excuse to leave that compartment ("Where's the loo?"). So
Albie wanders into another compartment with some other new firsties
and makes friends with them. They turn out to be Slythies. The Sorting
Hat says to Albie something like: "Another Weasley, I see. I suppose
you'll fit into Gryffindor with your brother and your cousins-" and
Albie, suddenly reliving some nasty thing Jamie did to him, says: "Do
I have to be with my brother?" "No, you can be in SLYTHERIN!"

Zanooda wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/177039>:

<< this one maybe is not JKR's fault :-). I have both american and
british editions of SS/PS, and Dean Thomas is only mentioned in the
american edition, not in the british one. So originally there were
really three kids left. I think that maybe american editors added
Dean, but forgot to change the number from three to four :-). >>

Yes, but the American editors only added Dean Thomas to that paragraph
because he was in much of the rest of the story and they knew
alphabetical order. Dean Thomas must have been sorted between
somewhere between Harry Potter and Lisa Turpin, even if the narrator
didn't mention him.