Snape'sprogeny/Pomona/TransferredPowers/Names/Post Owls/Scots/Myrtle/HousElv

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Potioncat wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/128930 :

<< I mean, I know each and everyone of us has wondered about Snape 
and Luna....No, really, has anyone ever heard this rumor before? >>

While she DIDN'T say anything about whether Luna is related to
Ollivander by their shared silver eyes and eccentricity.

Alla wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforG
rownups/message/128932 :

<< I think I will vote for Victor Krum as Snape's son for now. :-) >>

Viktor was 18 during the QWC (according to Ron) so he was 18 to 19
during the rest of GoF, while Harry was 14 in GoF. Severus and James
are the same age. The Lexicon says James and Severus was born in 1960,
there 20 when Harry was born, therefore 15 to 16 when Viktor was born,
therefore still at Hogwarts. Are you suggesting an unusually pleasant
summer holiday in Bulgaria?

KarenTheUnicorn wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/128989 :

<< So Sprout's first name is...isan't that a city? <laughs> >>

Yes, but the city Pomona is named after Pomona the Roman goddess of
apples, and thus moderately relevant to Herbology. I STILL say her
husband's name is Basil and their daughters are Acacia and Jacaranda.

Stephanie musicofsilence wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/129038 :

<< "to give him tools no other wizard possessed – the scar and the
ability it conferred, a magical window into Voldemort's mind."
JKR implies that the *only* powers which Voldemort has transferred
to Harry are his scar and the mental link. >> 

I think she only meant that the scar and mental link are the only
powers that are unique to Harry, not that they are the only powers he
got from Voldemort.

Tonks_op wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/129089 :

<< Why does DD have so many names? Does he have one for each of his
many incarnations?? >>

Albus Wulfric Brian Percival Dumbledore. The usual reason why a 
person has so many given names is either that the parents had a lot 
of people they wanted to name the child after, or that the person had
a lot of godparents and each godparent gave one name. 

Wherr009 wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/129121 :

<< If all this is true about owls (and I'm not saying it isn't) then
why didn't the MoM just "write a letter" to Sirius and follow the owl
to find out where he was? >>

That's one of JKR's FAQs:
http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq_view.cfm?id=18 :

<< Q: In 'Prisoner of Azkaban', why couldn't the Ministry of Magic
have sent Sirius an owl, and then followed it, to find him?

A: Just as wizards can make buildings unplottable, they can also make
themselves untraceable. Voldemort would have been found long ago if it
had been as simple as sending him an owl! >>

Personally, I prefer MY theory that post owls fly via another
dimension, a dimension which only they can enter, with the result 
that they cannot be followed. Altho' the reason they fly in it is not
to avoid pursuit but because it is a dimension in which they can see
their destination even if he is Unplottable or hidden by Fidelius. 

After all, to me if Sirius was Unplottable, an Auror in Hogsmeade who
saw a big white Snowy Owl swoop down on the same hillside day after
day and walked out onto that hillside wouldn't have been able to find
Sirius any better than an Auror in London who tried to follow an owl,
and it wouldn't have been necessary to hurt Hedwig's feelings by using
school owls instead

Hi, Petra http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/129123 :
the Ministry CAN owl a letter to Sirius, they just can't follow the
owl.

Mira wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforG
rownups/message/129194 :

<< Just to add that McGo is the only character with a Scottish name in
the books >>

Death Eater Macnair the executioner? Ernie Macmillan from Dufflepuff?
IIRC there are two MacDougal girls, Morag in Harry's year and Natalie
in the group Sorted during GoF ... 

Steve bboyminn wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/129231 :

<< -I want what ever is holding Moaning Myrtle to an earthly life to
be resolved so she can move on to the next life and rest in peace;
poor girl just breaks my heart. >> 

This is a forbidden "I agree" post.

Pippin wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/129232 :

<< Harry knew that Kreacher didn't wish him or Sirius well, he knew 
as well as JKR that no magic is foolproof, yet it never dawned on him
that the House Elf might be lying. >>

I don't believe that is particularly an example of Harry disrespecting
 House Elves. At the same time, it never dawned on him and he rejected
Hermione's suggestions that the Ministry of Magic building, especially
during the work day, would not be a very sensible place for Voldemort
to torture Sirius. He valued all information by whether it agreed with
his frightening vision.

Hickengruendler wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/129252 :

<< Therefore I really don't think Dobby's behaviour was all that
different. The difference is just that Kreacher's master was on the
good side and fighting for the right cause, while Dobby's was not. >>

This is another forbidden "I agree" post. And another parallelism is
between the two traitors, Snape and Pettigrew. Both betrayed the side
they were on, resulting in the deaths of their friends (okay, we don't
KNOW that it was Snape's information that caused his friend Rosier and
Wilkes to be killed while resisting arrest by Aurors); the difference
is that one's betrayal served bad guys and the other's served good
guys. 

Amiable Dorsai asked in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/129253 :

<< What did you do during the war, Minnie? What did you do for 11 
more years before you started teaching? And what did you teach before
Dumbledore gave up the Transfiguration post? >>

Presumably much of the time between her NEWTs and her teaching job 
was spent earning more and more of Transfiguration and other magic,
whether by apprenticeship, in some kind of Transfiguration school
(which wouldn't be part of a university only because JKR said there is
no wizarding university), or by self-study.