How we read HP books WAS :Re: Half-Blood Prince

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 183881

> > Alla wrote:
> 
> > I also want to add one of my all time favorite examples of 
> > Yaxley and somebody else (HAHA and I do not 
> > remember name right now) working at the Ministry.
> 
> zanooda:
> I'm not sure about Yaxley working at the Ministry, Alla. If you 
> mean "The Dark Lord Ascending", he definitely couldn't be a 
> Ministry worker at that time. Wasn't he apprehended at the end
> of HBP? 

Mike:
I thought Yaxley was the big blonde DE firing off all the AKs in 
the corridor. He was described in DH as being rather larger than 
Snape. He would have been one that escaped. And since he wasn't 
caught, there would be no reason for him to be fired from a Ministry 
job, if indeed he had one at the time. 

Also, as someone who successfully took part in that raid without 
getting caught, I can see how he would think himself moving up the
DE ladder. Until, of course, he had to be Crucio-ed by Draco for 
failing to catch Harry after the wedding. ;-) 

Can I admit that I took some measure of delight in seeing these DEs 
being Crucio-ed by LV or another DE? Sorry to see Draco being forced 
to do it, but delighted that people like Yaxley were being zapped.


> zanooda:
> Scrmigeour told Harry that "somebody Stupefied a DE on top of
> the tower" or something like that. 
> 
> Wasn't it Yaxley whom Harry Petrficus Totalused (not Stupefied)
> on the tower?

Mike:
That was "Brutal Face", and I don't think we ever learned his name.


> zanooda: 
> Maybe Yaxley worked at the Ministry before, like Avery did, but
> it was never mentioned in the book, IIRC. I thought he Imperiused
> Thicknesse not at the Ministry, but somewhere else.

Mike:
That's why I thought, like Alla, that he worked at the Ministry. 
Because he was the one who Imperiused Thickness. It was him, wasn't 
it? 

Avery worked at the Ministry? Was that before he was caught in the 
MoM raid at the end of OotP?


> zanooda, who didn't check her facts and who can be totally wrong
> on all counts :-)!

Mike, who didn't check his facts either and would be delighted if it 
turns out he got something right that zanooda got wrong, because it 
would be a first ;-))