CHAPTER DISCUSSION: PS/SS 4, The Keeper of the Keys

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> Potioncat:
> But she has said that.
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> She's talked about the deleted side-story of Theo Nott and Draco talking at Draco's house. That was a scene intended--iirc--to show us Draco interacting with a true peer. Also there was Ron's cousin--Mafalda, Meleficent---something like that---who didn't make it into the book at all.
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> I don't have any specific interview in mind, they've all blurred at this point. But I don't see a contradition or untruth in saying she had it all planned out, yet having some things change as she went along. <SNIP>

Alla:

I think you can consider me convinced on this point, thanks for reminding me. She also talked about not being able to kill Arthur as planned, come to think of it.


Potioncat:
> Back to Lily and James being recruited, do we have either canon or interview that said that LV attempted or wanted to get them to join the DEs? I feel like we do, I just don't remember what it was.<SNIP>

Alla:

Yes, we do, I am not ready to give it up, I know I have read it, but when I went to Quick Quill to search, I could not figure out how to search their new layout, so no I cannot provide a link. I do not believe it is in the books though, I can be wrong.



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> Alla: 
> > Because Hagrid is clear IMO, he is asking if things happened around Harry when he was angry and upset and he IS upset when Dursleys do it to him, but nothing happens, you know?
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> Potioncat:
> I know we are commenting on our own opinions and reactions to canon, but I don't see an inconsistency. We know that magic does not solve all problems; nor is it perfect. Hagrid asks, "Never made things happen when you was scared or angry?" He isn't asking if things always happened. Think of Neville, apparantly he never had any accidental magic at all until he was dropped out a window; even though his family had started trying to trick it out of him.
> JMO

Alla:

Yeah, on this we have to agree to disagree it seems. I know that magic in the books does not serve all problems and not perfect. However Harry is not Neville and he does show his accidental magic pretty early, I feel that if accidental magic shows up when Harry is angry or upset, when Dursleys anger or upset him (and we know that they do), it will be very reasonable for his magic to act up.

I may not be so adamant in thinking that if not Aunt Marge. It took **one** accident of her badmouthing Harry's parents for Harry to get so angry that she got blown up. She did not need to starve him, lock him in the cupboard, threaten to smack him with the pan (was it Petunia's pan that Harry ducked from?), she did not need to do all that, just badmouthing Harry's parents was enough. In this book we see Petunia and Vernon badmouthing Harry's parents as well and nothing happened. I just do not find it consistent. JMO.

Alla.