spoiler replies and one original thought (btw Locomotor trunkis)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Amy Z wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_o
ld_crowd/message/2219 :

<< <spoiler space>
Upon a time a Surrey lad
Learned he was a wizard, like his dad.
He went to school and learned to spell
And fight the bad guy very well.
At age sixteen he headed back
And so we now know myth from fact:
His DADA teacher was (excised)
His team in Quidditch (blank) the prize.
He got (some number of) OWLs
And learned a lot of (something) spells.
The Half-Blood Prince, that man of mystery,
Was (whatsisface); that much is history.
Harry traveled with (Professor X)
And put on (whosit) a risky hex.
Did someone die? Did someone sicken?
Stop this crazy game of chicken.
Who kissed whom, or were they celibate?
Are you still here just for the hell of it?
Do not risk another look,
Turn this off and read your book!
</spoiler space> >>

Fabulous!

Who thinks Lavender gave Ron a Love Potion? It seemed to me that his
desire to stop snogging her came on very suddenly after Slughorn gave
him the antidote to Romilda's more powerful Love Potion. Maybe
Lavender's was less overwhelming because she made it herself instead
of buying it from Fred and George?

Ewe2 Penguin eeked in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/2182 :

<< I just read the Time interview (snip)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1083935-1,00.html >>

Hey, thanks for the link. In the third page (of four), it says
"Voldemort (whose name Rowling pronounces with a silent t)".

mooseming wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/2184 :

<< Does anyone else think that Ron's birthday present from his parents
was actually *DD's* watch? >>

The watches are described differently. DD's in PS/SS "it. It was a
very odd watch. It had twelve hands but no numbers; instead, little
planets were moving around the edge." Ron's watch in HBP: "a heavy
gold watch with odd symbols around the edge and tiny moving stars
instead of hands."

Ron's watch - no hands. DD's watch - 12 hands. 
Ron's watch - odd symbols. DD's watch - no mention of odd symbols.
Ron's watch - moving stars. DD's watch - moving planets.
I also think that 'instead of hands' is a bit closer to the center
than 'around the edge'.

Fran wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_ol
d_crowd/message/2187 :

<< RAB as one person's initials could be too obvious...could it be R
and B. The R and B are linked together like partners >>

But the note says "I", not ever "we": "I know I will be dead long
before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who
discovered your secret. I have stolen the real horcrux and intend to
destroy it as soon as I can. I face death (etc)".

I can fantasize a Ronald Arthur Bilius Weasley who called himself
R.A.B. (pronounced 'Rab') like American Civil War general J.E.B.
Stuart. And who named his three sons Ronald, Arthur, and Bilius.
Arthur we've met
(http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=7 says
"Arthur Weasley was one of three brothers"). Uncle Bilius saw a Grim
and died. Uncle Ronald is a figment of my imagination. 

If Draco could say (doubtlessly quoting Lucius) that "All the Weasleys
have red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford"*,
Arthur's children should have some first cousins with them at
Hogwarts! Altho' if Harry and Ron could have studied in the Gryffindor
common room and eaten at the Gryffindor table for five years without
ever noticing that McLaggen, maybe they also managed to overlook
another half-dozen red-headed Weasleys.

*Why does my memory make that quote 'red hair, no money, and more
children than they can afford'? Is it movie contamination?