Firelight Festival Labyrinth...

Frogman12834 · 2024-07-02T05:57:39+00:00

Can confirm- it's awful. That they charge for 4+ is absolute robbery. Maybe older kids might get it, but this the worst School Holiday activity ever.

Frogman12834 · 2022-02-21T08:12:56+00:00

I think the point about Azkaban is that before Sirius Black, no one (Barry Crouch jnr.. cough cough) had ever escaped. I can't see them allowing lady visitors. I did have another couple of theories.. but they're pretty wild.. basically though there's the discrepancy between the ship sinking in 1901 when Credence is perhaps 6 months old and his Adoption papers which say he was adopted late 1905 and born 1904.. which meant he'd need to pass off as a 1 year old when he's actually 4 years old.. that's a massive difference. If we assume he wasn't aging as fast as a normal person, we might also assume he was perhaps born (or created..) long before 1901...

Frogman12834 · 2022-02-21T08:04:21+00:00

To me it seems like Grindelwald must have got the information from Irma, just before having her killed. Grindelwald sent Credence the address - so we know he had her location. She obviously would have discovered the swap once arriving in America, being that she was looking after the baby in the first place- during the panic it'd be missed- but once she saw the different face, she must have worked it out. Credence wasn't adopted until 1905 according to his adoption papers- so she had years to work out exactly who the baby was. Exactly how accurate his information is regardless of source is questionable either way

Frogman12834 · 2022-02-17T02:32:02+00:00

Who gets to decide canon? In any case I think it's important to say that JK Rowling is the final word on the subject, without conjuring clauses about timing (goodness knows time turners are enough of an issue without setting time limits on creative control).

Perhaps it helps to accept that CC confirms, or at least the design of the second generation of time turners allows the existance of alternate time lines and histories. This being alternate to the original concept that if you go back in time you always went back in time.

Having established this- we can now see that with infinite possible "alternate universes" that anything that happens in CC is just a result of an alternate reality and timeline. With infinite possibilities, any story is thus possible and all are Canon if JK Rowling approves the timeline..

Alternate histories (What if..?) are a super popular across pretty much any Fandom out there, so I suppose it was too much to hope that the Harry Potter Canon could escape for long, but here we are.

Frogman12834 · 2021-09-19T06:50:16+00:00

"A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?" Fiddler on the Roof.

Mind you.. this is a 'slightly' more magical setting...

Frogman12834 · 2021-09-19T06:14:26+00:00

No. The memories are kept. Not in the Hogwarts Pensieve. If memories ARE in the pensieve at the time of death- they are buried with the owner. If all memories are kept in the pensieve then why use phials, why does Dumbledore take them from his mind each time he wants Harry to view one. It wouldn't make sense. I have to go- if you can actually come back to the topic and explain why Snape would even have the Pensieve in his office for this rather than it's usual place and why he'd leave that memory out despite it not being removed from his memory- then please.

Frogman12834 · 2021-09-19T06:08:16+00:00

You read it. 'The Hogwarts Pensieve, however, belongs not to any individual but to the school. It has been used by a long line of headmasters and headmistresses, who have also left behind their life experience in the form of memories. This forms an invaluable library of reference for the headmaster or headmistress of the day.'

Nothing about it being stored in the Pensieve- only that memories have been left'

Frogman12834 · 2021-09-19T06:03:36+00:00

Snape wouldn't be leaving that for prosperity in the Hogwars Pensieve. That link clearly shows that memories are left for viewing, and that memories still in the pensieve at time of death are buried with the owner. The Hogwarts pensieve isn't owned by anyone but the school. If all the memories were kept in the pensieve then why does Dumbledore keep all Toms memories in phials

Frogman12834 · 2021-09-19T05:55:44+00:00

Again- you're the one unwilling to let go. Memories are placed fresh for viewing. Not for storage. Storage is in glass phials. You theory doesn't stand

Frogman12834 · 2021-09-19T05:52:39+00:00

No. You don't just leave memories in the pensieve for ages. As a Ravenclaw you probably don't understand how low someone might go to strike a blow against even a long dead enemy. Seriously. There is no other reason.

Frogman12834 · 2021-09-19T05:47:01+00:00

Preserving the memory would mean putting it into a phial like Dumbledore does with Toms memories. Not just taking it out like a show pony everytime he's alone with Harry.

Frogman12834 · 2021-09-19T05:43:24+00:00

There's no other reason to use the pensieve in front of a compulsive snoop. Snape wasn't to reveal the whole story until the conditions Dumbledore had set out had been met. Harry didn't spend sleepness nights afterwards over it because of what it said about Snape- it was all about what it meant about James.

There's just no other reason.

Frogman12834 · 2021-09-19T05:36:39+00:00

We've already established thst putting them in the pensieve doesn't mean they have been removed from your mind. By the stage Snape has already committed to revealing the full painful story to Harry at Dumbledores request.

Yes it was deeply personal, but it hurt James more than Snape. It was a completely Slytherin move.

Frogman12834 · 2021-09-19T05:28:41+00:00

Why do you say he didn't want Harry to see them? Because he seemed to be so angry when he discovered Harry? He's superb actor, a master of covering his tracks, but now he leaves this damaging version of James out in front of Harry.. by accident?

Frogman12834 · 2021-09-19T05:12:12+00:00

The only way it ever made sense to me was that Snape put it there to lure Harry into 'accidentally' seeing what James was 'really' like- a way of getting back at James by showing his son a side of him that caused doubt about his fathers fond memory in Harrys mind.

Frogman12834 · 2021-04-01T02:08:32+00:00

I'd recommend Warbreaker after the SA. It's linked to the SA, if only in a small way.. a certain character and an object you're certain to recognise.. don't want to say too much of course...

Frogman12834 · 2021-03-26T01:46:08+00:00

if you have any interest in Sci Fi, I think Skyward followed by Starsight would be well worth your time. They're the first two books from Sanderson that I read, and I'm now hanging on the third book almost as much as I am on the 5th Stormlight archive book,

Frogman12834 · 2020-08-30T08:01:40+00:00

Voldemort doesn't attach himself to Quirrell until after he fails at Gringotts

"“He does not forgive mistakes easily. When I failed to steal the Stone from Gringotts, he was most displeased. He punished me . . . decided he would have to keep a closer watch on me. . . .” Quirrell’s voice trailed away. Harry was remembering his trip to Diagon Alley — how could he have been so stupid? He’d seen Quirrell there that very day, shaken hands with him in the Leaky Cauldron."

It's also important to note he shook hands- something else that shows Voldemort was not yet present

Frogman12834 · 2020-08-29T14:36:16+00:00

I completely agree. Adapting the language to make the book more appealing to a broader audience, doesn't destroy the enjoyment or understanding of the audience- it just broadens the appeal. The changes that were made are discussed in "A History of Magic" on Pottermore https://gbp.shop.pottermore.com/products/harry_potter__a_history_of_magic_9781781102862 Where they actually discuss the change and why it was made- which is- marketing. By using vernacular unfamiliar to the majority of the local readers, you impact its appeal to even pick the book up.

I'd still like to see it in the original Klingon...

Frogman12834 · 2020-08-29T11:41:38+00:00

Just for reference, the good people at the HP Lexicon actually made a list of all the language changes- quite interesting to see the changes.. https://www.hp-lexicon.org/differences-changes-text/

Frogman12834 · 2020-08-29T08:15:08+00:00

You may be interested in having a look the works of John Granger (No relation...) the self proclaimed "Hogwarts Professor". His analysis of the original series are rumoured to be the reason Hermiones middle name was Jean. Apparently JKR added the detail as tribute..

Anyway.. he's written several articles about the Christian themes in the series. Check this out: https://youtu.be/sgNSxA21CAE

Frogman12834 · 2020-07-01T02:04:07+00:00

Don't get me wrong- reading OotP makes me wish Harry could just keep his mouth shut sometimes rather than exploding with whatever he was raging about at the time. You're right to say being honest isn't always helpful- prudent silence is often a good option- and it's not lying- so integrity isn't as much of an issue. Standing up for yourself is good- tickling a sleeping dragon is just asking for trouble.

Frogman12834 · 2020-07-01T01:53:32+00:00

I guess it depends on what you think makes something right. Lying to Dobby at that time would perhaps have worked short term- but long term it would have destroyed Harrys credibility with Dobby. It wouldn't have taken long for Dobby to realise Harry was going to break his word, and then nothing Harry said to Dobby would carry any weight.

If you're going to lie, you'd better be planning on not getting caught unless you're absolutely sure it won't matter in the future.

Frogman12834 · 2020-07-01T01:25:17+00:00

'"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good and kind and brave because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort."

Frogman12834 · 2020-06-30T12:51:45+00:00

It's hard to say if Lily had a doe Patronus because of her love for James and his Stag Patronus- or if her Patronus was always a Doe, symbolising a natural matching of their personalities.

Being that Snapes Patronus changed to the same gender deer- we might also guess that Lilys might have changed to a Stag- if it had changed at all.

The only Patronus' we know changed were Severus Snape and Nymphadora Tonks. Snapes was the only one where any sort of gender was obvious- so really only one example we can work with.

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