But he's only mentioned once! And in retrospect. You'd think he'd at least have gotten an nice bow to wear at the wedding...or tripped up a couple of Ministry goons along the way.

This is the reason why there is cat-fic.

The city manager in town is named Cruikshank. I am amused.

According to Wikipedia, Crookshanks is half-cat, half kneazle: [link]

And Sue beats me to the kneazle info. Oh, well.

I wonder if Harry ever got another owl. I'm sure the family had one, and we know the two boys have one each for school, but did Harry ever find another Hedwig for himself?

These are the things that spawn fic.

I've got my Deathly Hallows audiobook and I'm ready to "read" while commuting. Somehow I've managed to avoid hearing spoilers.

I'm predicting the two things that loads of people have predicted, Snape is on the anti-Voldamort side because he loved Lilly and will betray Voldamort at a crucial point (although I can't really figure out how the killing of Dumbledore fits in this, did Dumbledore arrange it? If so, why?). I'm also going with the idea that a part of Voldamort's soul is in Harry as it explained so much when I heard the idea. Going on from the popular stuff, I'm thinking that Harry will die and be reborn at some point wagering on the symbolic meaning of both the pheonix feather and holly wood of his wand. I'm thinking it will involve the veil and the locked room in the department of mysteries. I have no idea how the other missing horcuxes (I've been listening on audiobooks so I can't spell anything) will be found. At the end of the story, Voldamort is dead, Bellatrix is dead (Neville's doing, but not with a killing curse, maybe a stunning and falling sort of time), Draco or his dad is dead (by Voldamort, not the good guys), Snape is a goner (by Voldamort after Snape betrays him to save Harry), unfortunately a Weasly(Mr. Weasly, Bill, or Percy), some member of the DA, and some other really tough to take death like maybe Hagrid.

Stay tuned for commute and post (not at the same time though).

Note: I apologize in advance for the abuse of spelling and grammer as I'll be writing these very fast and pasting them in without looking at other posts.

It's fun watching Gud make a blind stab after knowing how it turns out.

Indeed.

Looking forward to the commute&post, Gudanov!

I'm rereading Sorcerer's Stone. Just got to Voldemort's first appearance. (Though, I noticed, Fred and George actually got in the first blow against the newly-appeared Voldemort -- they got detention for throwing snowballs at the back of Quirrell's turban.) So anyway, he says

See what I have become? Mere shadow and vapor ... I have form only when I can share another's body [...] and once I have the Elixer of Life, I will be able to create a body of my own.

So after his soul split the last time, the last remaining piece was just kind of floating out there? And when he got re-bodified, was the new body his old one, or something brand new? And what happened to his body in Godric's Hollow?

(If there isn't a real answer, I'm going to say that the last bit of soul jumped into the Potters' cat. Because we never did find out what happened to that cat, did we? And hybrid cats seem to be a theme lately.)

I'm also noticing a bunch of things that Rowling seemed to change her mind on later. Like, we're told that James was Head Boy, but in Order of the Phoenix they say that he wasn't a prefect. Also, Voldemort tells Harry that his father bought bravely for his life.