Epilogue (was Re: Ron and Parseltongue)

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183505

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

> The explanation is in the letter. Sirius missed Harry's first 
> birthday because he was away on a mission for the Order. The 
> first broom  would thus have been a belated present, just like the 
> Firebolt.


zanooda:

Maybe, but I'm not entirely convinced :-). I don't think it took
Sirius three months to send the broom. He missed Harry's birthday,
right, but it seems to me that he sent the present the same day or
right after, not in October! Why Lily would even describe him that
birthday tea, if it happened so long ago? She also says that "Harry's
not old enough to know it's his birthday", not that "Harry *was* not
old enough ...". "Harry's" means "Harry is" here, right? Or do I
misunderstand it?

I know that it is my personal perception, and I'm not even saying that
I'm right, because obviously you are the English-speaker here, not me
:-)! Still, that's how I see it - to me, the letter was written very
soon after the birthday, and that birthday tea sounds like a very
recent event to me. BTW, why would the Firebolt be a belated present
:-)? I thought Sirius intended it as a Christmas present. 


> Pippin wrote:
 
> I'm not bothered that the letter got to GP.


zanooda:

Yeah, me neither :-). There are a few possible explanations. 

I accidentally erased the part of your post about the contents of
Sirius's vault not being confiscated, but I wanted to add that they
didn't do it to anyone - Bella and other DEs all still have their
vaults. However, I would really like to know how Bella got her wand
back. They broke Hagrid's wand just because he was expelled, don't
they brake the wands of people who get life sentences? It doesn't seem
logical. And Sirius didn't have his wand after he escaped, iirc.