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Harry Potter Fun Poke! Okay, I know that popular funpoking books are bad ones, but this is funny.
1. What book is HP and the HPB?
2. Okay. So if Snape is evil, but really nice, it's vice versa, right?
3. Do you think the Merpeople might get eaten by the Giant Squid?
That's all for now. Lols to you guys!!!
Vick says wupb. Sounds like Wut Up B. B...hm. Unpopular Hogwarts student...?
~~~NDT~~~
submitted by NDT, age 9, NC
(July 14, 2010 - 5:18 pm)
(July 14, 2010 - 5:18 pm)
1. What book is HP and the HPB? (it's HBP not HPB=])
It's the 6th one and my favorite.
2. Okay. So if Snape is evil, but really nice, it's vice versa, right?
I don't think he's evil or nice. He's on the right side, but he hates Harry.
3. Do you think the Merpeople might get eaten by the Giant Squid?
It's more likely that the merpeople would kill the giant squid(see the merpeoples carvings in Book #4)
(July 15, 2010 - 12:02 pm)
Actually, I think NDT was referring to Muse's Hot Pink Bunnies, because this is a fun poke thread, right?
(July 16, 2010 - 9:04 am)
Well, maybe...
NDT?
(July 16, 2010 - 11:43 am)
And/or the fact that nearly every HP-obsessed has accidentally called it that at least once.
(July 17, 2010 - 8:27 pm)
*grin* Harry Potter and the Hot Pink Bunny! The hot pink bunny is actually an unregistered Animagus. Who do you think it is? Voldemort? Bellatrix? Luna Lovegood? One of the Founders? Maybe it's Lily Potter -- she faked her own death, like Peter did! What do you think.
(July 16, 2010 - 12:40 pm)
Yeah. That was what got me started-the prospect of
Harry Potter and the Hot Pink Bunny.
I was trying to confuse you with the second one.
With the third I was just joking around.
Vick says
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~~~NDT~~~
(July 17, 2010 - 2:08 pm)
1. What book is HP and the HPB? The sixth one.
2. Okay. So if Snape is evil, but really nice, it's vice versa, right? What? Sorry, I'm not good at this kind of thing. Okay, so you're saying that if Snape is really nice, then he's actually evil because it's vice versa the other way around too. Right? I stink at this. (But my sister, Rachel thinks 'no'. She thinks she's good at this stuff, I don't know if that's true, though.)
3. Do you think the Merpeople might get eaten by the Giant Squid? No? The merpeople could fight it off, couldn't they?
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(July 16, 2010 - 7:14 pm)
1. What book is HP and the HPB? HP and the Half-Blood Prince: One of the best bools of all time!!!!!!! (Go Harry Potter!!!! /\/8) )
2. Okay. So if Snape is evil, but really nice, it's vice versa, right? Umm . . . What?
3. Do you think the Merpeople might get eaten by the Giant Squid? Yes . . . then again no . . . then again yes . . . then again no . . . etc.
(July 17, 2010 - 7:37 pm)
See? The abbreviation is so commonly misused that people aren't noticing it's wrong!
The HPB is... Voldy! He faked his death—it can't have been Lily, because the Animagus, like the Patronus, reflects personality, and they are usually the same. Lily's Patronus is a Silver Doe. Anyway, Voldy's the most likely to fake his death. He wouldn't have been able to help what he turned into—it's unlikely that it's a matter of choice. Do you really think, after all, that Peter chose to be a rat? Not that I've anything against them, but it certainly wouldn't have made him any more popular, and I have a feeling he wasn't exactly content with his situation. So Voldy turned himself into an HPB at the end of book 7!
Or maybe the similarity to HBP was an allusiion to Snape. He could've faked his death, or maybe he tried to impress Lily once by turning into something, without being able first to check what he'd become. That would've been embarrassing...
Unless the HPBs are a magical race that can turn into humans at will? Then it has to be Luna; it would explain her oddness, and why that Magizoologist married her.
Snape is not, by the way, nice or evil. He is a good (but not necessarily nice at all) person pretending to be evil.
(July 17, 2010 - 11:27 pm)
Pettigrew as a rat: Somehow, it doesn't really seem practical to have a rat Patronus.
Or is that just me?
(July 18, 2010 - 2:33 pm)
Well, the reason I thought of Luna was that her Patronus, according to the Lexicon, is a hare, and hares are related to rabbits. It seemed the most likely to me. But I like that idea, that she is actually a member of a race of HPBs that turn into humans! And the Magizoologist married her to study her!
(July 18, 2010 - 2:57 pm)
Are the Patronus and the Animagus form *always* the same? 'Cause that doesn't really make sense. Snape's Patronus is a doe because of love for Lily -- does that mean that if he became an Animagus he would become a *doe*? A *female* deer? *wanders off singing "Do, a deer, a female deer* *comes back* I find that kind of unlikely.
(July 19, 2010 - 6:36 am)
Yes, I think you're right. But they'd usually be similar, I think--JKR often spoke about similarities between herself and Hermione, and also separately said that if she (JKR) were an Animagus, she would turn into an otter (or at least somone said that in an HPL essay, and I'm assuming they probably wouldn't have just made it up, right? I hope...). Since we know that Hermione's Patronus is an otter, and both forms probably represent the personality of the person, and there are plenty of other reasons in some essay I read, but I don't feel like listing them, I think it's likely that a person's Animagus is usually the same as their first Patronus, most of the time. Which means that Snape could turn into an HPB...
I'm assuming that Metamorphmagi can't turn into animals, as nothing like that ever seemed to happen or be implied. This could be because it would involve changing much more than the outward appearance--if Tonks had wanted to turn into a blue whale, she'd have to replace her teeth with baleens and change the shape of her bones in addition to growing, not to mention all sorts of little chagnes to organs and things that no-one sees. I think that would be much more difficult than, say, changing the color of your hair. It would also be dangerous. Part of the reason Animagi are required to register is their own safety. If someone could turn into, say, a cockroach (I'm... guessing they probably won't have a cockroach Patronus, so maybe their being the same isn't as common as I'd thought. I mean, what's Rita Skeeter's? Surely it isn't actually a beetle? I just can't picture one doing much to protect her from dementors.), and was just walking around, someone could do harm to it without realizing that it was actually a human being. But if you register as an Animagus, that's less likely, because more people will know your markings and be able to recognize you. But if Metamorphmagi could turn into anything they wanted at will, wouldn't things be much more complicated?
Also, maybe the animal an Animagus turns into represents the person's character, while the Patronus represents only the positive side of a person's character? That would certainly make more sense than some of the things I'd said...
And then there's Transfiguration. According to Dumbledore in Tales of Beedle the Bard, if you Transfigure yourself into an animal, your mind becomes that animalthe time, I figured it would have to do with your brain being Transfigured along with the rest of your body. But then what do Animagi do? It doesn't make sense... And what about Krum? He turned part of himself into a shark in GoF, but he was fine. It was the top part, too, that contained his brain, so if that has anything to do with it, he still couldn't have changed himself back. Did he get someone else to do it for him, or is it possible to make a spell temporary? Hm...
Oops. I seem to have forgotten the 'fun-poking' part here. Oh well...
(July 19, 2010 - 1:29 pm)
Good points! I agree with just about everything you've said. Also, beetle Patronus -- I don't think it's as much about the animal that it as it is about what it's made of. I think it could conceivably be any animal at all and work just as well.
It makes sense to me that your Patronus would represent your good side. If it's made out of your best memories, surely those memories would contain *you* at your best? (Although a person has to wonder what a person like Umbridge thinks about when they make their Patronus, or even Voldy. Kind of a disturbing thought.)
Also, no, the Animagus issue does not make sense when you think about it that way, and nor does Krum. Hmm.
Oops, yeah, I guess we aren't poking fun. I seem to be stuck on analysing mode.
(July 20, 2010 - 6:56 am)
SFTDP, but I just wanted to say that it would be really sad if a cockroach represented your good side. Like Calvin and Hobbes: "You're the only person I know whose good side is prone to badness."
(July 20, 2010 - 5:44 pm)