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I also like the idea that James and Sirius and Peter gave him a luggage tag (whatever the magical equivalent of that is) as a joke when they all graduated, because they were always ribbing him about being studious and professorly.
Even better!
He had a pretty crappy deal, didn't he? And no sooner reunited with Sirius than he lost him again. God. Poor bastard.
And it just got worse! Remus was definitely JK's Jossian element. I will make you love him and then make you suffer for loving him. A lot.
Man, do I love Remus. Poor Remus.
Does the foe glass show your enemies as you believe them to be or would it show enemies you didn't know you had?
Trying to figure out the logic of the Time Turner. There's a scene in PoA where Hermione misses a Charms class. It seems that the plan for that period was for her to go to Divination, then use the Time Turner to get back to the beginning of that class period, and then go to Charms. But she forgot to go to Charms, and fell asleep in the common room. After class, Harry and Ron found her and asked why she hadn't been in Charms. What was to stop her from using the Time Turner at that point to get back to the beginning of the period and get to Charms?
Is it just a coincidence that pensieve is an anagram of Pevensie?
I'm going to go with a yes on that one!
What was to stop her from using the Time Turner at that point to get back to the beginning of the period and get to Charms?
Because it has already happened.
Really.
There do not seem to be any paradoxes in the Potterverse. If something has happened, it will happen.
Harry saw his father across the lake sending a patronis. It turns out to be Harry himself, etc.
In other words, you won't go back and kill your grandfather, because you didn't.
Over at Sugar Quill, they're speculating over what Neville did between finishing his NEWTs at Hogwarts and beginning teaching there, and the idea that I love is that he spends a few years doing field studies, becoming an Indiana Jones of herbology, going to the Amazon and remotest Africa to gather plant species. Maybe even continuing these studies in his free summers, too!
The idea of Neville Jones is giving me fanfic bunnies to play with...
Relistening to Sorcerer's Stone and loving more this time than ever before. Now that I know what becomes of everyone.
Grindelvald being mentioned in the very first few chapters...on a chocolate frog card!
I am, however, having trouble with a certain missed fact.
It bugs me that Dumbledore is famous for his piercing blue eyes...and Harry and Co. spend significant time in the Hog's Head in the middle books...but no one ever mentions that Aberforth is Albus' brother.
Or did I miss something along the way?
I love, given Kathy's comment about Neville's potential career as a swashbuckling vegetation hunter, that Neville first realized his wizardness when his uncle Algae dropped him out a window! Dude came a long, long way...
Dumbledore does make a reference in HBP that he "sometimes takes his custom" at the Hog's Head, and in one of the earlier books (I can't remember if it's SS/PS or CoS), he mentions that his brother, Aberforth, was accused of doing funky spells on goats. Combine that with the mention in OotP that the Hog's Head has a certain odor of goat inside, fandom knew back then that Aberforth was the barman at the Hog's Head.
