OBHWF+

In PoA, when Lupin tracks Harry, Hermione, Ron, Sirius, and Wormtail into the Shrieking Shack, why the hell does he leave the Marauder’s Map on his desk? Wouldn’t it have been good to have just in case the kids et al. moved? Wouldn’t it have been better to just not have the map lying around no matter what? For serious, is Lupin an idiot?

I was reading somewhere that OBHWF is no longer possible because of Percy’s estrangement from his family. In a way, it does create a rift in the family; it also sort of negates the “happy” part of One Big Happy Weasely Family. I don’t think this will have a long term affect on the viability on OBHWF. If nothing else, we’ve seen that you can’t count on anything in this series until you know the full story. Since none of us will know that story for a few months now, it isn’t really possible to say whether Percy will re-join the fold.

My personal belief/hope/whatever is that he will. I don’t have any evidence from the books to prove or support my opinion; it’s just a feeling. I’m not sure I believe that it will be anything so dramatic as my mother supposes, but I do think he’ll make good in the end. I suppose I hold this belief because of his mother and father. I can’t believe that Molly and Arthur could or would raise a son who could hold a grudge against his family for a lifetime. Simply, they raised him better than that.

Like anyone else, though, I can only guess and hope. And pine for the new book.

but I’d ride him:

So, Daniel Radcliffe is apparently doing Equus. There are nude sex scenes. Some people are upset by it–the disrobing of Harry Potter and all. I’m not upset about it, though.

Radcliffe’s spokesman Vanessa Davies said: ‘Daniel does not want to step away from Harry Potter but he does want to show he is an rounded [sic] actor capable of very different and diverse roles…’

Despite the fact that I adore Harry Potter and even Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, I think Ms. Davies may be overstating Daniel’s talents just a bit. He’s not all that great of an actor. He’s clunky as all hell. Okay, okay, okay, he was just a kid when he started (he’s arguably still a kid, I know…blah, blah, blah). But come on, is there anyone who really watches Harry Potter for Daniel Radcliffe’s acting?

I think not.

So why is he in Equus, or, better yet, why do people want to see him in Equus? It’s just my guess, but I’d say it’s because he’s Harry Potter. And that’s just fine by me, hairy nipples and all.

so deliciously close.

Crookshanks : “The cat’s ginger fur was thick and fluffy, but it was definitely a bit bowlegged…” (PoA 60).

Mundungus : “He had short bandy legs, long straggly ginger hair…” (OotP 22).

Though Crookshanks is spunky and Mundungus is said to resemble a basset hound, there is no doubt that as a cat and a crook, respectively, they each live by their wits.

And, hello, Crookshanks is called Crookshanks and Mundungus is a crook.

Are they somehow more related??

cited:

Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. New York, Toronto:, Aukland, Sydney, Mexico City, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires Scholastic Inc., 1999.

Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. New York, Toronto:, Aukland, Sydney, Mexico City, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires Scholastic Inc., 1999.

Just after Sirius dies in OoTP, Dumbledore sends Harry to his (Dumbledore’s) office to wait while Dumbledore sorts things out with and for Fudge. When Dumbledore arrives in his office to talk to Harry, Harry is still thinking of Sirius:

Harry turned his back on Dumbledore and stared determindedly out of the opposite window. He could see the Quidditch stadium in the distance. Sirius had appeared there once, disguised as the shaggy black dog, so he could watch Harry play…. He had probably come to see whether Harry was as good at James had been…. Harry had never asked him….(823)

Harry is beating himself up over Sirius’s death and agonizing over Sirius’s life. The thing is, however, that the question of why Sirius came to watch Harry play was answered in PoA. While Sirius is telling of his escape from Azkaban, he says:

I swam as a dog back to the mainland….I journeyed north and slipped into the Hogwarts grounds as a dog. I’ve been living in the forest ever since, except when I came to watch the Quidditch, of course. You fly as well as your father did, Harry…(372)

cited:

Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. New York, Toronto, London, Aukland, Sydney, Mexico City, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Scholastic Inc., 2003.

Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. New York, Toronto, Aukland, Sydney, Mexico City, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Scholastic Inc., 1999.

In HBP, during Aragog’s funeral, Hagrid says “The good die young.” I know that’s kind of vague. But it really made me wonder what’s coming for Harry. Of course, there’s always been a chance that he’ll die. The prophecy says “neither can live while the other survives,” but it doesn’t say that one can exist if the other dies. So maybe they will both have to die. So, is it possible that Hagrid is foreshadowing Harry’s death?

My friend Megin speculates that the R.A.B., who left the note with the fake Horcrux in HBP, is liable to be Regulus Black. I think that’s a definite possibility. In fact, I think it’s extremely likely. I also think it’s likely that we’ve seen the real locket horcrux in OotP when Molly and the kids were cleaning 12 Grimmauld Place. They did indeed find such a locket. Because of that, I feel 12 Grimmauld Place just might have a part in book 7.

What I wonder is, where is the locket now? Does Mundungus have it? Does Dumbledore’s brother, Aberforth, have it? (He did seem to be making a deal with Mundungus when Harry stumbled on them in HBP.) Perhaps. I think it’s also possible that Kreature has it either on him or stashed at 12 Grimmauld Place. And that possibility makes me wonder what’s coming from Kreature. We already know he can be a duplicitous bastard. When Sirius died, did Kreature really pass on to Harry? Or did he actually pass on to Bellatrix and is she having him pretend to serve “that Potter brat?” I wonder.

I also wonder what this says about Regulus. Is he dead? Or only pretending? What hanged his mind about Voldemort? Upon searching his name, I found that the Wikipedia has some interesting bits about him–very interesting.

I wonder what it will mean that Snape is indebted & bonded to James, since James saved his life. At the end of PoA, Dumbledore tells Harry that Wormtail and he (Harry) are bonded because Harry spared Wormtail’s life. That means that James and Snape are equally bonded. Perhaps that’s why Snape’s always (or at least for the most part) tried to save Harry. That makes me question my idea that Snape’s impetus for doing so is more or less rooted in his feelings for Lily. I guess I’ll just have to give it some thought…and, of course, wait for the last book.

If someone can only get information protected by the fidelius charm from the secret keeper, how did Hagrid rescue Harry from the ruined house after Voldemort’s attack without knowing that Sirius Black WASN’T really the secret keeper?