[the_old_crowd] re: J+L are dead / Snow's questions / Dr 90210

[Kathy King]

Me previouly:


<< (3) If the Phoenix has healing powers in its tears, why didn't
Fawkes just cry on Dumbledore's wand hand that was burned by the
Horcrux to heal it? >>
Catlady:

JKR has decreed that in the Potterverse, no magic can reverse death.
Thus, not even Phoenix tears can reverse death. That's a good argument
for the suggestion made on TOL that DUmbledore's hand is DEAD and
Snape used his 'stopper death' ability mentioned in his opening speech
to keep DEATH from spreading further through DD's body.

Snow:



An answer I can honestly live with… thank you! You obviously can't heal
something that is dead.


Me previouly:

<< (5) How would the twins even know about the `unbreakable vow' at
age nine let alone attempt to perform it on a five-year-old Ron? Where
did they see someone doing this at age nine that they would even know
of `its' existence? >>
Catlady:

My childhood recollection is that smart kids in a house with books
read all the books, even if they don't understand them. My Muggle
memories instead hearing some adult expressing regret that in his
childhood, he had climbed to the top shelf of the bookcase to get the
books his parents had put out of his reach, especially his father (a
police officer)'s photographically illustrated textbook on determining
how long a corpse had been dead.

Snow:



Reading does not appear to be the twins' forte. I agree it would be a factor
to the common variety intellectual child but these children are not common
they are sneaky. They also appear to have a craving for naughty places
(knockturn alley) and items (dung's Venomous Tentacula seeds), which tells
me they don't look for answers in books…along with the fact that their
grades do not reflect the book learning aspect as well.



Me previouly:


<< (6) Does anyone else see the big blonde death eater as a giant with
less skill with his wand than even Hagrid? Is that why the blonde
death eater chose to ignite Hagrid's cabin because he realized it
would be futile to engage stunners against a giant, being one
himself? >>
Catlady:

No. Not only are full-blood giants twenty feet tall, which surely
Rowling have described not merely as 'big', but she specified that
"Unlike Hagrid, who simply looked like an oversized human, Grawp
looked strangely misshapen. What Harry had taken to be a vast mossy
boulder to the left of the great earthen mound he now recognised as
Grawp's head. It was much larger in proportion to the body than a
human head, and was almost perfectly round and covered with tightly
curling, close-growing hair the colour of bracken. The rim of a single
large, fleshy ear was visible on top of the head, which seemed to sit,
rather like Uncle Vernon's, directly upon the shoulders with little or
no neck in between." (from the OoP Chapter titled "Grawp")

Snow:



Sorry my clarity was not defined in this question. I was actually relating
him to Hagrid and Hagrid's abilities or lack thereof. I also doubt that he
is a full giant but as I have already stated elsewhere, he does seem to
relate to Hagrid's non abilities and tough skin.





Me previouly:

<< I could accept that answer for the teddy bear/spider incident, >>

Catlady:

Surely the teddy bear/spider incident was an act of childhood
unintended magic, like Harry finding himself suddenly on the roof when
having been pursued by bullies, or turning his teacher's wig blue. As
in Rowling's response to the Rumor that "Harry is a Metamorphmagus":
<< Anyway: before they have received training, very young witches and
wizards are prone to unstable surges of power, often accidentally
producing effects that they may have to train for a few years to be
able to reproduce deliberately. Their magical ability is bottled up
for weeks at a time and then, when made angry or frightened, it simply
explodes out of them, sometimes (as in the case of the vanishing glass
in the chapter of the same name, 'Philosopher's Stone) causing at
least as much inconvenience to themselves as others. >>

Snow:

You most certainly could be right but I view these precious babes as much
more than the norm. JKR has gone to great lengths to obscurely drop hints to
who these two really are. They have been more of an obsession to me than the
obvious characters because of this.
I think I'll drop this at that note or else I'll be off and running at the
mouth again.


Snow


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