This was answered by Jo in her interview at Carnigie Hall
I have been asked that a lot. Harry was exceptionally fortunate in that he had Fawkes. So before he could be destroyed without repair, which is what is necessary to destroy a horcrux, he was mended. However, I made sure that Fawkes wasn’t around the second time a Horcrux got stabbed by a basilisk fang, so the poison did its work and it was irreparable within a short period of time…. I established early in the book, Hermione says that you destroy a Horcrux by using something so powerful that there’s no remedy. But she does say there is a remedy for basilisk poison but of course it has to be administered immediately and when they stab the cup later - boy I’m really blowing this for anyone who hasn’t finished the book - there’s Fawkes, is my answer. And thank you for giving me a chance to say that because people have argued that quite a lot.
So essentially, it didn’t die because Harry didn’t die.
Who do I personally think?
It’s Ron, its got to be. It’s always been. Ron is the best friend, Hermione was the smart one. When Harry had to choose between them in every book it was always Ron. He didn’t like only having Hermione around during Goblet of Fire because she was ‘boring’, Ron was the thing he’d miss most out of everything and he never asked Ron to compromise in Half Blood Prince when he and Hermione weren’t speaking but asked it of Hermione over and over.
Hermione is his friend, I think it’s safe to say best friend as well as Ron. Because the three of them are the Trio. But if Harry could only give the title to one person theres no doubt in my mind that it would be Ron.
I know Snape is a half blood because one of his parents was a muggle, but what about Harry? If a pureblood wizard and a muggle-born wizard have a child is that child still considered a pure blood?
Bloodlines are tricky. If you’re descendant from even one muggle it makes you a half blood. So if your great great grandmother was a muggle, you’d still be considered a half blood, because you couldn’t be pureblood obviously.
Thats why the purebloods blast squibs and bloodtraitors off their trees, so that that line (which would be half blood) isn’t on there and the family remains pure.
As Jo has said, it’s rather rare to find any actual pureblood because they’ve all lied and things to stay that way.
Anyway, Harry is a Halfblood because his grandparents are both muggles. Therefore on one side he came from a long line of Wizards and on the other he came from a long line of Muggles.
Where as the weasleys came from two long lines of wizards. The Prewetts and the Weasleys.
I hope that cleared it up!
because i think i understand it, but i thought that dumbledore already knew that snape loved lily.
Certainly I can try!
When Dumbledore first got Snape over to their side he used Snape being the reason the girl he loved was in danger against him. So Snape joined back in the 80’s because Dumbledore promised to hide Lily and, after being disgusted with Snape for not caring about them, her family. However we all know that Voldemort got them in the end and after that, Dumbledore used Snapes immense guilt over the entire thing to ensure his service even further.
“If you loved Lily Evans, if you truly loved her, then your way forward is clear. You know how and why she died. Make sure it was not in vain. Help me protect Lily’s son.”
So there you have the beginning. The memory you’re asking about happened sixteen years after that. Dumbledore had believed Snape capable of change, as he so often does see the best in people so when Snape expressed outrage when told that Harry Potter had to die, Dumbledore asked if it was possible he had come to care for the boy after all.
yes, Snape had joined his cause at the beginning because of his love for Lily, but it had been so long we have to assume Dumbledore thought it would fade. So that when he asked if he cared about Harry, and Snape essentially denied it and cast his patronus, Dumbledore knew for certain that his love for Lily Evans had never wavered. It surprised him most likely, so he asked “After all this time?” and Snape confirmed with “Always”
Full question:
In Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone; The First years are called for the sorting in alphabetical order. Padma Patil is called then Parvati Patil, followed by a “Perks, Sally-Anne” then comes Harry Potter’s turn. In Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix; In the OWL practicals and theories the fifth years are seated or called again in alphabetical order. This time Harry’s turn comes right after Parvati, Where did Perks, Sally-Anne go?
There are so many theories surrounding this girl it’s astonishing. The truth is though that she neither died nor failed a year or anything like that— but simply moved.
to Canada.
As a halfblood she had a muggle Father who’s business had been failing for quite some time and he, along with her mother, decided that a fresh start would be good for them. They’d hoped to move before Sally got to far into school but it didn’t pan out the way they hoped and they ended up moving right before her fourth year at Hogwarts (she never got to see the triwizard tournament but she surely heard about it from her friends)
She transfered to a wizarding school in Toronto while her parents went on to work in the stage and theatre business where they do quite well.
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Of course not! They were all perfectly safe, there was a great deal of effort put into making the tournament as safe as possible (what with dragons and things it got difficult at times though) Harry is the only one who took the song seriously. Had Fleur not rescued Gabrielle in time the merfolk would have returned her to the surface once the time had run out, safe and sound.
The full question was:
In the books they say that the ministry could not tell the difference between who in the household created the magic, but they had “known” it was harry who did magic in the order of the phoenix when they sent him to court. But in the chamber of secrets when dobby did magic they didn’t send Harry to court, if they didn’t even know dobby was there, so they would have “known” , it was harry, right?
The reason the Ministry was sure without a doubt (both in Chamber and in Order) that Harry had done the magic was because there are no other registered Witches or Wizards anywhere in the area around Harry.
The thing about Trace is that it has many many holes in it’s theory. An underaged wizard from a wizarding family can do magic in the household without repercussion because the ministry cannot track a single person and because there are adult wizards doing magic around their kids most of the time, they just ignore those infringements on the trace.
But because the ministry knew there were no other magic folk around Harry Potter so any magic being done must have been from him.
There is the odd unexplainable exception every now and then in the books though, such as in Order when Mundungus disapparated from Privet Drive. No warning was sent then, it was only later when Harry used the Patronus Charm that the trace activated. Though it’s possible that the trace doesn’t register apparation since the users are supposed to be of age anyway.
So, back to the question, in Chamber of Secrets they didn’t send Harry to court because the magic wasn’t very advanced. They sent him a warning, however, because he wasn’t supposed to be using any out of school. The Ministry is aware that emotions evoke bouts of magic in young wizards and witches though so even if he had gotten a court date they probably would have let him off.
Blowing up his aunt in Prisoner got him quite a warning as well and if Fudge hadn’t been so worried about him that may have resulted in a court hearing but… we all know how that went.
I hope this answered your question, I was a little confused by it.
Well we have to take into consideration who we’re talking about here. Sirius Black was James Potter’s best mate. The two of them were bigger troublemakers then the weasley twins. They knew every nook and cranny of that castle and mapped it.
The castle is impenetrable to dark and outside forces, Sirius Black was pretty much neither of these things though everyone thought he was. He knew the secret passage ways, he knew the tricks to getting in and on top of that he could transform into a dog.
Sneaking into the castle late at night when no one was up and about wouldn’t exactly be hard for someone like him, and once in he knew every secret passage to keep hidden, but he didn’t go in often if you’ll remember. He used crookshanks to keep an eye on peter for him and only went into the castle twice. The first time was when the portrait wouldn’t let him in, so he got the cat to steal Neville’s passwords and the 2nd time was when Ron awoke to him over his bed.
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Yes they do, though they do have their own brands with added enchantments and the like. They are not their only option though.
Hogwarts Students can get them via mail order (like so many things) or buy them on Hogsmeade weekends. And of course bring them to school from home.
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Ahaha, as much as I’m sure everyone wants to hear ‘yes’, the answer is no. I think the problem with most is that they have this fantasy idea of Draco Malfoy because of the films and Tom Felton but Draco was a horrid person. Only other horrible people gravitated towards him. He never made any friends on his own, they were only people who saw potential of being friends with a Malfoy, the sons of friends of his father or students who didn’t want to offend him because of who he was.
Pansy Parkinson, the pug faced girl, is particularly the only girl he was ever remotely involved with, most of the Slytherins found Draco pretentious and pompous and generally unsavory. The majority of them are by no means anything like Draco at all.
Yes, Draco got better after his impossible task in the 6th book, but I’m talking before that. Answering this in regards to his sixth year and beyond is kind of pointless for obvious reasons.
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Yes, actually this one has been answered by Rowling herself so we don’t have to elaborate much.
She was asked: “Do the memories stored in a Pensieve reflect reality or the views of the person they belong to?”
Answer: It’s reality. It’s important that I have got that across, because Slughorn gave Dumbledore this pathetic cut-and-paste memory. He didn’t want to give the real thing, and he very obviously patched it up and cobbled it together. So, what you remember is accurate in the Pensieve.
Asked: So there are things in there that you haven’t noticed personally, but you can go and see yourself?
Answer: Yes, and that’s the magic of the Pensieve, that’s what brings it alive. (…) Otherwise it really would just be like a diary, wouldn’t it? Confined to what you remember. But the Pensieve recreates a moment for you, so you could go into your own memory and relive things that you didn’t notice the time. It’s somewhere in your head, which I’m sure it is, in all of our brains. I’m sure if you could access it, things that you don’t know you remember are all in there somewhere.
Pensieve memories are not susceptible to bias, they are a completely accurate rendering of whatever happened regardless of feeling, time, whoever’s point of view it’s from. Nothing taints them unless, as said above, they are manually tampered with and usually it’s fairly obvious when they have been.
Even if you didn’t see or hear something yourself at the time of the memory (example: Lupin talking about being a werewolf in Snape’s memory. Obviously Snape didn’t actually hear any of their conversation himself but he was close enough to them that it was recorded into his subconscious) you would be able to go back into a memory and examine all the aspects you missed.
I hope that covered it well enough.
Anonymous asked: If you are interested in writing a rated M fic about Death Eaters, look into how Native, Hispanic, Asian, Arab, Jewish and African peoples were treated in the past, and how they are still treated today. These attitudes are real, and still exist in our modern world. They exist here on tumblr, where we claim to accept everyone. That SHOULD frighten and disturb you. There are far worse words to call a person than "mudblood..."
yes and it is all very frightening.
posting this for other’s reference.
Death Eaters are racists; for the cause, they torture, they kill, they kidnap…I wonder, were they despicable to the point that they were also rapists? In Deathly Hallows, Greyback talked about having a piece of Hermione, and even tough I’m sure he meant “a piece to eat”, it also sounded like he wanted to rape her. Well it was very disturbing. So I wonder, did they also use sexual violence to scare their victims?
The key thing to remember here is that the books you are all so fond of started out with a target audience of children. They progressively got darker and ‘grew up’ with you but such awful things weren’t put in. They may have been alluded to but no one will honestly tell you if that’s what is meant or not because of the target audience’s age.
Now imagine this were happening in real life with no censorship. The news channels would be full of the violence this group of people put others through, the murders, the tortures, the mutilations… I think you knew the answer to this before you asked it.
The books might not be able to go into detail about that sort of thing, but with the type of people you had running on that side… of course it was done. Though luckily it wasn’t that common as most Death Eater’s found muggles and muggleborn’s disgusting and wouldn’t want to ‘defile’ themselves or their pureblood race with such ‘filth’. There were others who wanted to punish or humiliate them in every way.
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In a way. They don’t have anything electronic in magical society, not only because magic interferes with the devices.
That isn’t to say, however, that witches and wizards can’t sit around and listen to music on a computer. Harry’s magic never upset any of the electronics in his Aunt and Uncles house, nor did Hermiones in her own. But if they had taken something electronic to Hogwarts the mass amount of magical energies would have rendered it useless.
But electronics (and electricity actually) are a specifically muggle inventions so wizards don’t have CD’s.
They do have radios and phonographs and the like so the proper answer to your question is that they do have an equivalent of a compact disc. It’s pretty much like what you call a vinyl record.
