[the_old_crowd] Out of sight, out of mind?

[susiequsie23]

Kneasy:
First up, something not from the books.
Remember, oh, about 18 months back? There was a little something from 
Jo to the effect that Harry'd be getting a new pet. Haven't seen it 
mentioned for yonks. Gave it some consideration at the time (post 81563 
  'Pets-U-Like'), but nothing lately. 

SSSusan:
Hmmm.  Female cat to get all down & dirty with Crookshanks?  Might assuage the Harry/Hermione shippers a bit.


Kneasy:
Third - Bagman. Yep, he's my hot favourite, too.

SSSusan:
Yup, he's GOTTA come back.  I'm still not convinced he wasn't somehow helping BCJ back in GoF, nor that he might not be the coward Voldy referred to.


Kneasy:  Krum. This book or next?

SSSusan:  I vote for this book.  Somehow working with or alongside the Order, but not sure how likely he'd be to be the new DADA professor, as has been proposed by a few.


Kneasy:
Apparating. Harry's 17, he gets to learn to Apparate. 

SSSusan:
Not 'til book 7, I'm afraid.  Harry turned 11 just before school started in SS/PS... which makes him turning 16 just before his 6th year.  IIRC, Hermione will be the first of the three to turn 17 -- in Sept.?--so that raises an interesting question about whether she will learn to apparate months ahead of the guys, or whether she'll wait.


Kneasy:
Lastly the individual that characterises the title of the post. 
(There's an apocryphal story about a translating device - they fed it 
the phrase 'out of sight out of mind', translated it to Russian, then 
translated it back to English - and got 'invisible lunatic'.
So what'll Lockhart be up to? Anything?

SSSusan:
Ugh.  I hope not.  I feel about Lockhart almost as I feel about Grawp.

Siriusly Snapey Susan


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