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Post by orphansrgreat on Mar 11, 2007 9:50:15 GMT -5
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Mar 12, 2007 19:56:22 GMT -5
You should really contribute more with your posts than "..." I mean, why post if you haven't got anything to add to the current subject?
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Post by Wizz on Mar 23, 2007 15:16:59 GMT -5
Just a little something to ponder over: In Chapter 28, "Flight Of The Prince," after Harry and Dumbledore's retrieval of the locket in the cave, it is discovered that the locket contains a piece of paper with a small note. To the Dark Lord I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. R.A.B. Could the real locket be the same locket Harry found in Order of the Phoenix? In Chapter 6, "The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black," Harry finds a "a heavy locket that none of them could open..." The initials of the person who wrote the note inside the locket are R.A.B. These initials can be Regulus Black, Sirius Black's brother, where coincidentally, a locket was found in Grimmauld Place.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Mar 25, 2007 21:12:13 GMT -5
Good theory, and it has been tossed around before.
It sounds plausible but we'll just have to wait and see.
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Post by Jack Tripper on Apr 28, 2007 15:16:42 GMT -5
This is a speculation of mine. In the second book, it says that mandrakes (i think) can be used to cure many curses. Well, I think this will play an important part in Deathly Hallows becuase: 1. Nevilles parents..... well you know about them 2. Neville is good at herbology. Maybe Neville will find a cure for his parents. Another fact, as said by JK Rowling, onoe of the main characters will become a Hogwarts teacher. If that is true......... that ends the teory that Hogwarts will not open again. So that means that Hogwarts WILL be open again. YAY!!!!!
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Post by Sora on Apr 28, 2007 18:36:22 GMT -5
However it does not say whether it will open in Deathly Hallows or not. It could be that this person re-opens the school later after Voldermort is defeated.
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Post by Wizz on Apr 29, 2007 7:00:29 GMT -5
I know is off topic:
jacktripper?
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Apr 29, 2007 20:43:09 GMT -5
Hm, I would love it if Neville cured his parents with mandrakes. But I have to think that after over 10 years of staying in Mungo's, someone would have tried that already.
Mm. Perhaps Hogwarts will open in the beginning and be closed later by a fresh wave of violence?
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Post by Wizz on May 1, 2007 10:52:31 GMT -5
But if Hogwarts opens in the beginning and closes again, that will not be enough time for the student to pass N.E.W.Ts and what other qualifications required to become a teacher.
If how ever a student will become a teacher, that suggests that one of the current teachers may leave or worse die. The only subject which requires a teacher is DADA...and we all know what happens to the teacher of that subject after a year.
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Post by Sora on May 1, 2007 14:53:50 GMT -5
I can only imagine that Neville would become the new Herbology teacher. No-one else in Harry's class has ever been dicussed in as great of detail to entail anything of that manner. And she HAS said it won't be Hermione.
I think that Hogwarts will open AT SOME POINT in the book. It has too, or else Harry Potter loses that element we adore about it, which is the SCHOOL life. Perhaps Harry will be forced to go. Who knows.
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Post by Jack Tripper on May 6, 2007 15:15:25 GMT -5
But if Hogwarts opens in the beginning and closes again, that will not be enough time for the student to pass N.E.W.Ts and what other qualifications required to become a teacher. If how ever a student will become a teacher, that suggests that one of the current teachers may leave or worse die. The only subject which requires a teacher is DADA...and we all know what happens to the teacher of that subject after a year. Well, afte rHBP we kind of figured out that Voldemort cursed the job. now, when Dumbledore died...... weren't all the protections on Hogwarts and things removed automatically, all the enchantments he ever created? Well, when a wizard dies, does that mean that after they die, that all their enchantments previously made are removed? IF this is TRUE, then won't when and if Voldemort is defeated, the curse will be taken off the DADA job?
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Post by Spymaster E on May 6, 2007 17:29:45 GMT -5
That's a good theroy. I never thought of that. I suppose if Voldemort is killed, the curse probably will end.
However, I disagree with the automatic removal of the protections around Hogwarts as a result of Dumbledore's death. Hogwarts was founded a thousand years before he was even born. (Chamber of Secrets, forgot which page, McGonagol (i know this isn't spelt right): "Hogwarts, as I'm sure you all know, was founded over a thousand years ago...")
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on May 6, 2007 20:35:14 GMT -5
Right, the DADA curse will be gone as soon as Voldemort dies but charms and protections on Hogwarts are part of the school itself. While it is true that the headmaster can lift them as was seen in HBP the power to do that passes to the deputy if the headmaster should die, meaning that those protections would leave Hogwarts only if Mcgonogall lifted them. The only thing making Hogwarts less secure than before is that it's lost Dumbledore's powerful reputation of being the only one Voldemort ever feared.
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Post by Dear Dairy on May 7, 2007 11:59:07 GMT -5
Hang on. That doesn't make sense. If ALL a dead wizard's previous curses were reversed, then the people they killed by using magic would come back to life (including Dumbledore, upon Snape's death, and Harry's parents, upon Voldemort's death). If other curses were reversed, then Neville's parents would return to normal. Surely you don't think that would happen. But if it didn't happen, then how could this reversal rule be consistent? What would be the rules that govern it?
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Post by Edwin on May 8, 2007 11:13:53 GMT -5
Hm, I would love it if Neville cured his parents with mandrakes. But I have to think that after over 10 years of staying in Mungo's, someone would have tried that already. This, however would not be helpful for the film as they said that it is used to return a victim to its original state before being paralysed.
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