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Post by Ritsu on Aug 7, 2005 12:20:47 GMT -5
So, I have some little questions, that are really non-important, concerning the past books and things that happen here and there. The most un-silly of them are:
1. Doesn't Harry have a godmother? Because when a baby's born, usually there's a godfather and a godmother.
2. Why doesn't Harry have twice removed cousins or uncles from James's side? I don't believe the whole Potter family is dead.
3. Why wasn't Percy in Slytherin? He's ambitious and walks over everyone who's in his way. He's not Gryffindor-ish at all.
Here you can post yours too, and maybe speculate and answer (because sometimes the answer is so obvious!) about other people's little doubts.
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Post by KoNeko on Aug 12, 2005 10:03:46 GMT -5
What I still can't get over is the fact that Harry spent 10 years of his life living in a cupboard, then went to a wizarding school where he was an instant celebrity and was closely involved in several deaths and yet doesn't seem to have any mental impairment... 
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Post by nancy on Aug 15, 2005 23:18:04 GMT -5
lol!!
So true Ko, so true!
well you know Rita, at least where I'm from, sometimes babies only have godfathers or godmothers. Like when my little sister was born, she only had a godfather. Then the guy got married like 5 years later and my sister got a godmother in the process.
I think Percy changed... or maybe... maybe it was the same desicion thing as with Harry. Percy chose gryffindor, but he could've been a slytherin as well.
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Post by KoNeko on Aug 16, 2005 10:14:21 GMT -5
I think part of the "Why is Percy in Gryffindor" thing is just for practical reasons; all the weasleys are in the same house so that it's easy to focus the story in just one house common room or whatnot. I mean, Hermione could easily have been a Ravenclaw, Cedric could have been... well, anything, but a Gryff perhaps, and yeah. The list goes on. I think it's just more of a question of practicality.
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Post by Benjamin Kingsley on Aug 17, 2005 4:14:48 GMT -5
Forget cousins and stuff...doesnt harry have any grandparents? and wouldnt he have already met his mothers parents? surely his aunty would visit them at some stage..
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Post by Sarah on Aug 17, 2005 23:31:17 GMT -5
perhaps they died? the books said he saw all different types of relatives (of all ages) in the Mirror of Erised, right?
and on the Godparents--i know a girl who got a godfather and godmother who didn't even know each other...so maybe harry has a godmother, but doesn't know it yet. but then again, he could just only have a godfather. *sigh* complications, complications...
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Post by Ritsu on Aug 24, 2005 7:15:08 GMT -5
But Ko, about the housing thing, I remember that some time ago we were discussing why Hermione wasn't in Ravenclaw and came to the conclusion that, although she has the brains, she also has a lot of courage and bravery, which puts her directly in Gryffindor. I agree that Cedric should be in Gryffindor too... and I think Luna should be a Hufflepuff. She's so spacey, and she hasn't proved to be amazingly clever - yet. I agree on the practical thing, but... I don't know, what difference would it make to the story if Percy was in Slytherin? He's been a brat ever since we knew him, and his recent behaviour is very Slytherin-ish, so.. I dunno.
Benjamin, I do believe Harry's grandparents, all of them, are dead. At least James's parents are. He saw them on the Mirror of the Erised... about Petunia's parents, I don't know, but if they haven't appeared so far, it's because they're dead too.
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Post by Me on Aug 26, 2005 0:56:27 GMT -5
Ahhhhh! I had a really great question last night in my head but I can't seem to remember what it was. Last night I had one of those nights where I couldn't sleep so I just thought about everything and anything going on in my life and Harry Potter just ran through my head. I think it had something to do either with Sirius of Aragog.
I believe that Percy is brave. He's a little misguided now. He wants to believe that he's right. He wants this so badly that it's alienated him from his family. Maybe he'll come around, maybe he won't. I believe in his own way he is brave.
I don't like Percy much right now. And Percy is ambitious, but there is nothing wrong with a little ambition. Where would we all be if we had no ambitions.
I realize that Harry is a half-blood, but it would make sense for him to have relatives from James' side. James' family were purebloods right? And Sirius said all purebloods were intermarried therefore related in some way or another. It would therefore make sense for him to have a relative or two out there that weren't the Durselys. Unless the Potter family had a limit of one child per marriage kind of deal... 
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Post by KoNeko on Aug 29, 2005 22:19:36 GMT -5
I was thinking more that Aunt Petunia (and therefore Uncle Vernon) would have met Harry at some time before his parents died. You know how families are when a baby is born and everyone goes to flock over there and check out the bub? Why didn't that happen with Harry?
Hmmm, if Harry is a halfblood and James is a pureblood then Harry would be related to Draco... (They had an article about genetics and half/pure/mudbloods in a scientific journal.)
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Post by hermoine on Aug 30, 2005 7:52:15 GMT -5
1. Doesn't Harry have a godmother? Because when a baby's born, usually there's a godfather and a godmother. 2. Why doesn't Harry have twice removed cousins or uncles from James's side? I don't believe the whole Potter family is dead.
It is true though that Harry probably has some distant cousins and uncles though. He was probably given into the Dursleys' care because they are the closest relatives he has, and due to the fact that Dumbledore didn't want him to turn out spoilt. Of course, some of the Potters' relatives may have died in the pas fights with Voldemort; maybe there will be some mention of them in the 7th book.
I recall JK had said Harry's grandparents would be mentioned in HBP, but clearly they weren't.
This week I got POA on DVD and probably due to the fact that my brother kept going "Dementor dementor!" whenever he felt like it or because I've finished off Inkheart, but I got a question of my own to ask.
We know that Dementors suck souls of out people, leaving them to "live", if that's what you want to call it. Now what would happen to those souls if a Dementor was finished off? I was watching an interview on the DVD, in which JK said she always pictured the Dementors to be Death. I know Death you can't exactly win over death, but consider, is it possible that you can free the souls in a Dementor?
In Inkheart, (this is a spoiler) the monster loses its powers and turns back into the hundreds of magical creatures it was made up of. Can the same be done with a Dementor? |
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Post by KoNeko on Sept 19, 2005 16:36:21 GMT -5
I think Luna should be a Hufflepuff. She's so spacey, and she hasn't proved to be amazingly clever - yet. 
I remember Dumbledore mentioning right at the beginning of HP1 that the Dursleys were the only living relatives Harry had left, since now his parents were dead, which is why he was there in the first place.
I don't think that you can free the souls from a dementor. As I see it, a dementor is sort of like a thing that requires souls to live, in that it consumes them (sort of like eating them for survival). To think of the souls being freed from a dementor is kind of like thinking that you can free my lunch from inside me after I have consumed it. As the food breaks down it becomes part of me and can't just be separated like that. However, since I know that souls are fiddly sorts of things then I could imagine that JK might bring up an argument for doing so, but my gut instinct (no pun there) is that you can't free the souls from a dementor. (A horcrux on the other hand, is a completely different issue...  ) |
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Post by louchocolate on Feb 28, 2006 15:31:05 GMT -5
Jk Rowling might have ticked us harry could have a godmother who is still alive, what harry saw in the mirror in book 1 might be the people who he wants Dumblerde could have been wrong, about the mirror, I hope sirius comes beack, say I if you think sirius is still alive I I rest my case
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Post by hermoine on Jan 9, 2007 9:54:18 GMT -5
I suppose this question isn't silly at all but this seemed the most general thread I could post it in. So my brother decided to watch GOF again and watching some scenes got me thinking:
So we know that the duelling scene in GOF between Harry and Voldemort is the result of the fact that their wands interconnected because they are of the same phoenix feather, belonging to Fawkes. Now that got me wondering. Do we know anything about Fawkes? Did he belong to Dumbledore at the time his feathers were taken? If so doesn't that involve a whole load of things to do with destiny and Dumbledore being more than the wise man we know him to be(which is already alot)?
And if he obtained Fawkes afterwards for preventative measure so to say doesn't it give you all the impression that he might have seen all of this coming from way afar? We know he had heard Trelawney's prophecy(by pure luck might I add! adding to the idea of destiny?), he followed Tom around from his childhood as we learned from HBP(I've forgotten loads of stuff from that book so I'm very much aware I might be missing something essential in my reasoning).
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Post by Fluffy on Jan 14, 2007 12:10:42 GMT -5
We know he knows more than he had time to tell Harry, so this is definitely not outside the realm of possibility.
What I want to know is whether Dumbledore suspected that Harry wasn't an Avada Kedavra survivor at all, but the seventh horcrux. You would think he would have noticed that. So, *note to self* maybe it's time to go back through the books and look for lines that indicate that Dumbledore knows. Certainly his insistence that Harry study occlumency could have been spurred solely by the dreams, but....
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Post by superstitious13 on May 2, 2007 15:15:17 GMT -5
I was thinking more that Aunt Petunia (and therefore Uncle Vernon) would have met Harry at some time before his parents died. You know how families are when a baby is born and everyone goes to flock over there and check out the bub? Why didn't that happen with Harry? In the first book the whole first chapter was about how petunia and vernon didn't associate with the potter's at all...vernon did even know harry's name for sure... |
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