reminiscing on some of the books, and quesitons

[shamguy4]

I randomly picked up harry potter this past week and am now on number 4...
It brings back so much memories. I have not read them in years (since 2007). I loved harry potter (not enough to capitalize him...im lazy), but I was not a crazy reader who read them over and over. Just a few times.

Now that I am older I see cool hints to the future books as well as interesting questions I have.
The hints show that she really did know what was going to be in the end all the way from the beginning!

First the hints. Then my questions.

Hints I have encountered so far (which you probably know):

In the second book, dumbledore tells harry that voldemort put a part of him in harry allowing him to speak parsletongue. I guess this hints to the horcrux that is harry.

In the third book at the end, Harry tells Dumbledore about Trelawneys prediction to which he says 'that's 2 predictions she has got right. I guess I should give her a raise!'
Harry never asks about the other prediction...that would have saved us from reading number 5!! stupid harry!

I must have glimpsed right over that when I was younger...Although I knew there was a special reason voldemort wanted to kill harry because he asked it in book one, but dumbledore would not give him an answer. I remember wondering about that a lot.

well... im up to book 4 so yeah...

my questions:


What is so special about the invisibility cloak? I have not got to book 7 yet in my reread, but I remember feeling that she just randomly decided to make it a hallow. It has nothing special. Crouch also had an invisibility cloak. And in the first book Dumbledore says (by mirror of erised) 'I don't need a cloak to be invisible Harry'


How did the pheonix get into the chamber to help Harry in the chamber of secrets, when Ron's wand blasted it closed? Indeed, Ron says 'where did that bird come from?'
And it could not apparate on school grounds...And how did it know what to bring?

Is the ministry of magic a full fledged government? It seems awfully tiny and Cornelius fudge involving himself with something tiny such as sirius black is interesting. And he has no escort or body guards!

If Harry's future saved him in the prizoner of Azkaban, by creating a patronus, why didn't his future already save sirius? And if it did why should they have to go back into the past? to keep the infinite loop going?
note to self: never meddle with the past, it creates an infinite loop.

why do all the bad things happen at the end of the school year?
ok that was a corny question!

well? any answers?

 

[Boaz]

sham, I was over forty when I read HP, but I know exactly how you feel.

I fell in love with Narnia when I was about nine years old. The characters were my age. They had adventures with wonderful creatures and nasty villains in a phenomenal world. I read them a few times in grammar school and then put them on the shelf for over fifteen years. When I picked them up again, I knew the words were the same, but I was sutnned that the characters had gained such depth and that the story had become so much richer. The story was no longer about kids in a magical realm, it was about me as an adult... it was about fathfulness, greed, cowardice, courage, treachery, deceit, honesty, friendship, and faith.

As for your questions... I don't remember all the details. But the apparition ban only affected humans... house elves could apparate to and from Hogwarts, so I assume Fawkes could do the same.

I think the Ministry is a full government along side the Muggle government. The number of witches and wizards is negligible compared to the population of muggles.

Time travel stories are always problematic. I don't even try to understand the sense of them. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It's just a plot device from the author.

I thought that Rowling's decision to make each book contain the cycle of a school year was brilliant. For most kids in urban areas, their lives depend upon the cycle of school until they reach adulthood. It gives boundaries, touch stones, and events with which kids of almost every culture can identify.

Best wishes on your rediscovering the magic.

 

[CrumpleHornedSnorkak]

You posted this a few months back, and I'm not sure if you're still interested, but I am unable to leave out my two cents when it comes to Potter!

I think, and of course, I may be wrong, that the invisibility cloak was always a hallow. In the letter that Dumbledore gives Harry with the cloak it says 'Your father left it in my possession before he died.' Ok, that may have just been a vague reason to why he had the cloak, but I don't think so. Knowing Rowling, she wouldn't have left such a large piece of the final book unplanned. Dumbledore had the cloak because he thought it might be a Hallow.

As for Trelawney's prediction, I can understand why Harry didn't ask what her first true prediction was. If I remember correctly, DD said it with an air of mocking (for want of a better word...) I'm sure he would have asked if he had thought the prediction concerned him, but why would he think that? Anyway, I don't think that DD would have given him an honest answer if he had asked.

I'm not sure about Fawkes, and I never thought about that before. All I can say is that Phoenix's are extremly magical. And maybe, though this may be reaching a bit, because Harry's wands core contains one of Fawkes' feathers, that they could potentially have some kind of magical connection? I'm not really that up on my 'wandlore', but you never know? Ha!

Yeah, the MoM is a fully fledged government, but as the poster before me said, there are a lot less Magical folk about. Also, Sirius Black was a MASSIVE crisis. I don't think he was out looking for Black, but of course he would be involved. He didn't have any when he meets Harry in the Leaky Cauldron, but he does take a Dementor with him when Crouch Jnr has been discovered at the end of GoF.

And I know what you mean about discovering the little hints that link the story together.