[the_old_crowd] Some More Potential OoP Flints (also posted on HPfGU)

[Monika Huebner]

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 16:12:45 -0000, "Phyllis"
<erisedstraeh2002 at ...> wrote:

>Some more potential flints I've noticed in OoP:
>
>1.	It's described as a "tight fit" when Harry and Mr. Weasley 
>are crammed into the telephone box to go down to the Ministry of 
>Magic, but then Harry and five friends are able to fit into the box 
>on the Sirius rescue mission?

Doesn't make a lot of sense, unless it expands magically if more
people try to get in. What bothers me more about it is that anyone
seems to be able to get into the ministry at any time, be it day or
night, provided that he knows which number to dial. You dial, you say
your name, and you're welcome. I guess that's how the Death Eaters got
in, too...

>2.	In the Room of Requirement, a whistle appears when Harry 
>wants one.  Why then doesn't a Boggart appear when Harry thinks about 
>how useful a Boggart would be in helping the DA learn the Patronus 
>Charm?

Maybe because a Boggart is a magical creature and can't be conjured up
like an object?

>3.	Lupin is able to open the door to 12 Grimmauld Place by 
>tapping it with his wand.  So then why do the other members of the 
>Order have to ring the doorbell?

While I like Carole's explanation about the others wanting to be
polite, I don't know if it's really polite to ring the bell if you
know exactly that it will cause dear old mum to start screaming. ;-)
But wasn't it mostly Mundungus who used the doorbell? This guy doesn't
strike me as being overly sensitive.

>4.	Someone on the main HPfGU list astutely mentioned that the 
>entire Hogwarts student body should know that Harry can conjure a 
>Patronus since he did so at the Gryffindor-Ravenclaw Quidditch match 
>in PoA.  I found it also odd that the question Lupin asks Harry to 
>verify his identify when the Guard comes to Privet Drive is "What 
>form does your patronus take?"  when there are lots of other people 
>other than Harry (most notably, sons of DEs such as Malfoy, Crabbe 
>and Goyle) who also know this information.

Did they really know what a Patronus was? Do they know now? Not
everyone reads about advanced magic in books like Hermione, and it
doesn't seem to be something that's on the schedule. Lupin said in PoA
it was highly advanced magic, so I assumed most students wouldn't even
know about it.

>5.	There are fifty witches and wizards at Harry's hearing, and 
>Arthur indicates his belief that this constitutes the entire 
>Wizengamot.  However, at Karkaroff's hearing in GoF, there were over 
>200 witches and wizards in attendance.

Maybe it was bigger at the time? There were certainly more and more
important trials during that post-war era.

Monika