passerby
Aug 20 2008, 02:01 PM
Dear Fellow Ravenclaw House Members:
Welcome to your new House Common Room! Here is the place, once you are sorted (or once you have picked your house) that you may come to discuss things with your fellow house members! In the past, we have asked that you only discuss things associated with Ravenclaw House, but in this new thread, we are opening up the possibilities to you! Here is our reasoning: We know that as the fandom of HP must change a bit since the release of the last book, so must the forum to continue to foster interest and discussion. In short, there are only so many things that you can discuss about Ravenclaw House before it has all been discussed and theorized and rehashed.
What this means for you: As long as you have a topic or a question to answer, you may feel free to discuss anything. Please make sure you do not turn the thread into a chat thread where you are just popping in to tell everyone about your day or the things that are happening in your life. We have a couple of chat threads down in the Quidditch Pitch Forum where you may discuss those types of things. We also have a chat room where you can go to chat with your friends from the forums.
Please feel free to discuss any aspect of Ravenclaw House, life issues, reactions to news, Harry Potter, opinions and ideas on non-personal subjects, etc. Almost anything goes! If the mods feel you’ve gone a bit off track, we’ll post a gentle reminder. If the thread turns into a chat thread, you’ll get a less friendly reminder.
Another thing, keep in mind that though this Common Room is for Ravenclaw, you might have visitors from other houses come to see what you’re up to. Please do not treat these visitors as hostile spies, but please treat them as honored guests in your house. Sometimes it’s good to get outside opinions on things from a different house’s perspective.
If you have any questions about the new direction of the Common Room, please just send your Owl my way.
The latest question from your previous thread is this:
But, is there something that you think a Ravenclaw would not be good at because of their particular strengths? Something that their intelligence might stand in their way?
Insomnia
Aug 20 2008, 03:48 PM
YAY! A shiny new Ravenclaw Common Room! And the skies the limit as far as HP related information/discussions. I'm so excited!
Okay, something I've often thought and wondered about: Tonks. We know she can change her appearance at will, and it starts at birth (perhaps even before in the womb?). If that's the case, does a Metamorphmagus have a true or original appearance? Meaning, do they have a look that isn't touched by their changes? Do they even know what that is if they've been changing their appearance from day one?
We know that Tonks usually prefers her pink hair which can't be her "normal" hair color, but during HBP, she had brown hair. Perhaps that was her original, untouched color? Do you think there's something else about her appearance (if she knew what her original look was) that she changed consciously about herself?
If you were a Metamorphmagus, would you change your everyday appearance or stay the same?
Just the Droobles
Aug 20 2008, 04:07 PM
If you were a Metamorphmagus, would you change your everyday appearance or stay the same?Hmm...if I liked something enough, I might leave it. However, I feel like Metamorphmagus's...Metamorphmagi? Well, *they* sort of view their powers as normal people view changing their outfit every day. I feel like if I were a Metamorphmagus I would want to change at least one thing about my appearance every day. Even if it was small. Then again, I wouldn't want to change a whole lot because I would want people to remember what I look like and not be confused if I look too different.
If that's the case, does a Metamorphmagus have a true or original appearance? Meaning, do they have a look that isn't touched by their changes? Do they even know what that is if they've been changing their appearance from day one?That's a good question. I guess there really is no definite appearance to a Metamorphmagus. I do think that Metamorphmagus children would probably change their look much more frequently than older people because I believe that their look might just change without them willing themselves to do it. What I mean is that young children don't really have control over it, and therefore I think a child may walk around and his hair may just be changing color slowly as he goes about his day. That's my vision on that. As something they have to control, or something they have to mature in to.
I'll stop babbling now.
bookworm_1918
Aug 20 2008, 04:15 PM
YES! A shiny new thread with great new questions Insomnia started us off with. Thanks, passerby!
If you were a Metamorphmagus, would you change your everyday appearance or stay the same?
I would probably stay the same, maybe vary a little some days, though. It would be way too confusing for me, personally.
If that's the case, does a Metamorphmagus have a true or original appearance? Meaning, do they have a look that isn't touched by their changes? Do they even know what that is if they've been changing their appearance from day one?
Interesting question. I'd say that they probably wouldn't know what their normal appearance looks like, but after a while find a favorite look that they like and that suits them the best. Make sense? Like Tonk's favorite was purple spiked hair, right?
Eisa
Aug 20 2008, 04:24 PM
If you were a Metamorphmagus, would you change your everyday appearance or stay the same?I'm not sure. It would be very tempting to change my everyday appearance, particularly the things I don't like about myself. But then I'd always wonder if people liked me or disliked me based on what I had changed about my appearance, and not how I
really looked. That would make things a bit more difficult!
If that's the case, does a Metamorphmagus have a true or original appearance? Meaning, do they have a look that isn't touched by their changes? Do they even know what that is if they've been changing their appearance from day one?I'm sure they do have an original appearance, but I don't know if they know what it is.

Even if they've been changing their appearance from day one, doesn't that mean they had an original appearance to start changing? They can't just start with a *completely* clean slate...I don't think it would work very well that way!
And I technically already answered the very first question about when intelligence would be a weakness, so I'm not answering it again!

*giggle*
harrypotterlover1024
Aug 20 2008, 05:05 PM
Yay a new Ravenclaw house thread! I love how we can talk about anything here
If you were a Metamorphmagus, would you change your everyday appearance or stay the same?I think I would change things depending what I'm wearing that day, or how I feel. I wouldn't change my face drastically every day, because I would wan't people to reconize me. I would change things like my hair, eye color, maybe shape, but I think that would be it. It would be really fun to change your hair everyday though!
If that's the case, does a Metamorphmagus have a true or original appearance? Meaning, do they have a look that isn't touched by their changes? Do they even know what that is if they've been changing their appearance from day one?I think they have an original appearance and when they change into it they just think about wiping everything off. Am I making sense?? Like they wouldn't have to think about their certain nose, they would think about going back to a "clean slate". So they have their original face, and no part is Metamorphmagied.
I just wanted to say go Ravenclaw for the house cup!

We're in the lead.
new question::
I have always wondered if there are bathrooms in the common rooms. JKR always writes in so much detail and she never says anything like, "Before he went to bed, Harry took a shower". What do you think about this? Can wizards just magically make them self clean??haha sorry if this is really random, but I was thinking about this last night and where to post it so I put it in here.
Eisa
Aug 20 2008, 06:11 PM
I have always wondered if there are bathrooms in the common rooms. JKR always writes in so much detail and she never says anything like, "Before he went to bed, Harry took a shower". What do you think about this? Can wizards just magically make them self clean??Nothing wrong with random, I wonder weird stuff myself sometimes!

I don't think they can magically make themselves clean (at least not while still in school

). After all, there
are bathrooms in Hogwarts, as we know in the first book when Hermione spends so long crying in the bathroom. I think JKR just never really mentions it because it's not necessary for the plot. I guess maybe it's just more of a given that of course they go to the bathroom, take showers, etc.?
Oh, and the bathroom is mentioned with Moaning Myrtle in it and all, too.

So I'm sure there are also bathrooms in the common rooms and all; it's just that nothing plot-worthy happens in them.
Witherwings
Aug 20 2008, 06:22 PM
Yippee! A new Common Room! I like this idea. Ravenclaw Common Room sounds so much better than just Ravenclaw House Thread.
If you were a Metamorphmagus, would you change your everyday appearance or stay the same?Hmm. I think I'd usually stay the same, or as far as the facial features, at least. It's much easier when people can recognize you! But if I'm feeling like a new look, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to play around with the hair.

The issue, though, is to make sure that you're not always going back and forth between long and short hair when you're around humans. They might get a bit confused. Though I guess you could blame it on extensions, haha.
If that's the case, does a Metamorphmagus have a true or original appearance? Meaning, do they have a look that isn't touched by their changes? Do they even know what that is if they've been changing their appearance from day one?I think they do, and I agree with you harrypotterlover1024. Actually, you took the words right out of my mouth.

I'm thinking... a bit like makeup? Or like computers. Kind of a 'default' state.
I have always wondered if there are bathrooms in the common rooms. JKR always writes in so much detail and she never says anything like, "Before he went to bed, Harry took a shower". What do you think about this? Can wizards just magically make them self clean?It is random, but not stupid. I've wondered about that before, too! I agree with you though, how she writes in so much detail but barely ever mentions hygiene.

I mean of course it's not what you want to focus on in the book, but they do clean themselves and use bathrooms (prefects' bathroom and myrtle's bathroom), so if you want to sound pretty realistic... I mean I would have included it, personally. Like some books, say... 'I took a long shower to feel better'-ish.

Not that it's a major factor in the series, though. I still love it!!
And yes, congrats on the points! Woot!
gissgon
Aug 20 2008, 07:21 PM
Ooo nice and new thread YAY
And lots more to talk about,not that i don't like talking about Ravenclaw of course

So to the questions:
If you were a Metamorphmagus, would you change your everyday appearance or stay the same?I would change it,but not all the time. Just depending on how I'm feeling I'll change my hair or something,nothing drastic though. I would defiatley have fun with it,change my nose mayb

but by the end of the day I'd probably go back to myself. And I'd only change myself like maybe my hair,to match what im wearing
If that's the case, does a Metamorphmagus have a true or original appearance? Meaning, do they have a look that isn't touched by their changes? Do they even know what that is if they've been changing their appearance from day one?Im pretty sure they do,but I'm also positve that after a certain amount of time of changing their appearence they'd probably forget what their true appearence is. I mean they could probably get close,but I doubt they'd get it just perfect. And i dont know if they would be able to change their appearence in the womb so once they're born people know their true appearence
I have always wondered if there are bathrooms in the common rooms. JKR always writes in so much detail and she never says anything like, "Before he went to bed, Harry took a shower". What do you think about this? Can wizards just magically make them self clean?Haha weirdly enough I've actually wondered this too! I mean the only bathroom she's actually mentioned was the Prefect bathrooms. Im pretty sure they have bathrooms in the common rooms and if not than outside of them. They probably just wake up and take their stuff the one of the closest bathrooms around the school,and go back to the common room to put their stuff away. I don't think wizards can magically clean themselves,even though it sounds coolish
passerby
Aug 20 2008, 07:43 PM
Just a note: Feel free to discuss non-HP related things in your common room, too. Just make sure it's a topic or question like you're already doing with the HP ones. By "nonpersonal", I meant that you should not be asking things like "There's this guy, do you think he likes me?" and waiting for everyone's opinion of it. If that makes sense.
Carry on!
bookworm_1918
Aug 20 2008, 08:01 PM
Thanks, passerby. This is a great idea...especially since Ravenclaw was only really thoroughly mentioned in the 7th book, you really do run out of ideas!!
I have always wondered if there are bathrooms in the common rooms. JKR always writes in so much detail and she never says anything like, "Before he went to bed, Harry took a shower". What do you think about this? Can wizards just magically make them self clean?
Yeah, I remember vaguelly pondering this but I never really gave it much more thought. I figured that JKR didn't waste a paragraph explaing that harry took a shower, but I'm 100% sure that he did take a shower and there were bathrooms. I'd guess there would be one inside every common room by the dormitories so you didn't have to leave your house tower, but that's just me....
padfootx3
Aug 20 2008, 09:48 PM
This commonroom idea is great! Oh, the possibilities now that our question askingg isnt limited the ravenclaw things only...
I have to say as far as the Metamorphmagus thing, I totally agree with harrypotterlove1024 and Witherwings. I think that they do have some sort of default state to start over from. And if I was a Metamorphmagus I wouldn't change myself completely so that people wouldn't recognize me at all. I'd change things that normal people can change like eye color, hair color, hair length, hair style (curly or straight) and stuff like that. I wouldn't change my mouth and nose like all the time, I think i would just find the one I like and always use that.
I have always wondered if there are bathrooms in the common rooms. JKR always writes in so much detail and she never says anything like, "Before he went to bed, Harry took a shower". What do you think about this? Can wizards just magically make them self clean? Honestly, I have wondered about this, so don't worry you arent the only weirdo

We know that there are bathrooms in the corridors because of the Moaning Myrtle. And we all know that there is a prefect bathroom. I also think that there are bathrooms in the commonroom, because people that arent prefects need to bathe and I don't think i'd feel comfortable showering where people are going to the bathroom, i'd like it to be more private! I think it's like college where like a floor shares one bathroom or like 4 or 5 people share a bathroom. Something like that...
~Kate
harrypotterlover1024
Aug 20 2008, 10:01 PM
to answer my question
I have always wondered if there are bathrooms in the common rooms. JKR always writes in so much detail and she never says anything like, "Before he went to bed, Harry took a shower". What do you think about this? Can wizards just magically make them self clean?I agree with everyone saying that they probably have bathrooms in their common rooms. Maybe one for the girls and one for the boys. Haha and I love how everyone has thought about this too! It makes me feel a lot less weird
Loony'sCool
Aug 21 2008, 08:58 AM
I have also wondered about the bathrooms in the common room. Becuase if they have to pee in the middle of the night they just can't go out into the corridors to the nearest bathroom. And anyway do they every brush becuase JK never wrote about them brushing there teeth except for once I think. and padfootx3 I would like privisy also and like in the prefects bathroom its kinda nasty that they take a bath in the same pool like tub each time so its like ur sitting on somewhere where someones naked body has touched. and is the prefects bathroom both girls and boys becuase girls and boys shouldnt take showers or baths in the same room. and JK only put one prefects bathroom in the castle so I gues they share it the boys and girls. I better stop typing its geting to long.
Eisa
Aug 21 2008, 12:34 PM
Well,
Loony'sCool, I'm sure that the bathtub gets cleaned and all, whether by house elves or magic. Or students in detention, maybe?

And I'm sure that there is almost definitely a prefect bathroom for boys and a separate one for girls. Most, if not all, schools have it that way, with separate bathrooms for each gender. Although I don't personally think there's really anything wrong with coed bathrooms (e.g. girls and boys taking showers/baths in the same bathroom).
Loony'sCool
Aug 21 2008, 12:40 PM
I don't think its wrong for boys and girls to shower in the same bathroom. I just meant that they shouldn't at the same time. I have a question?
Do you think that its right to treat House-elves like scum? Do you think they should get payed, and own decent clothes?
Eisa
Aug 21 2008, 12:46 PM
Ohhh, okay, Loony'sCool, it sounded like you meant at all, not just at the same time! Sorry.
Do you think that its right to treat House-elves like scum? Do you think they should get payed, and own decent clothes?No, I most definitely do not think it's right to treat House-elves like scum! But at the same time, I'm not sure that they should get paid and own "decent" clothes. I mean, they *choose* to serve wizards. They want to. Remember how the house elves at Hogwarts acted around Dobby sometimes? And even he, with his outlandish ideas etc., didn't want to get paid THAT much. Nor was his idea of clothing probably anything approaching our idea of "decent."

So I think that house-elves should be treated properly, like, they should have rights. But I don't know if they should be paid and given decent clothing, etc., because I'm not sure if
they would want it. And it wouldn't be right to impose our own ideals on them, or we're becoming just as bad as those that treat them poorly.
Loony'sCool
Aug 21 2008, 12:50 PM
Its okay! Well I guess your right! So we need to treat them nicely like Harry does Kreacher. But let them do what they love. Thank you! I was starting to be like Hermione saying elves should get paid and all that. Okay how about you ask a question now.
ihkny
Aug 21 2008, 01:21 PM
As for the bathrooms in the common rooms question, I would have said I'm sure they can perform a spell such as Scourgify but after I checked out the spell, apparently it can't be used to clean ones mouth unless one wishes to choke to death...
Who knows what it would do on other body parts. Kind of makes you wonder why no one used this against Death Eaters... Would have been pretty amusing, imo.
But, anyway, yeah, I was really curious about this question, because it isn't ever mentioned - so being who I am, I went hunting. As was pointed out, it isn't likely they'd be allowed to wonder the halls after curfew and it's a bit cruel to make the students hold in their bodily functions over night if they need to go, etc. However, it's mentioned in the second book that the students of Gryffindor had to be escorted to the bathrooms because of the basilisk. While this doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't any located within the common room, it leads one to believe that it is highly possible there aren't any, oddly enough. I do think that the Prefect bathrooms are co-ed, though, as it can be bolted from the inside - which can indicate that it is for privacy purposes so males and females will not intrude upon one another.
Of course it isn't right to treat anyone or anything like scum, so no, it isn't alright. However, the house elves don't particularly want to be freed or paid. I don't blame them either, if they're freed there's not really anywhere for them to go or to do, and they love to be helpful from what I have seen.
~ihkny
Loony'sCool
Aug 21 2008, 01:39 PM
Oh wow! I didnt know that the prefects bathroom bolted on the inside. I sure know I wouldnt want to hold my fluids until morning. So theres got to be bathrooms in the commonrooms.
Where do the Teachers sleep? Do they have rooms off the side of there office with a bed or somthing it it?
Eisa
Aug 21 2008, 01:52 PM
Where do the Teachers sleep? Do they have rooms off the side of there office with a bed or somthing it it?
I don't know if they have a room off of their office...I think that probably the professors who are also Heads of House sleep in the House dormitories, just with their own little room, in case of trouble, etc. As for the others, maybe there's a little wing set aside for the teachers to sleep? I think it would probably get kind of uncomfortable just to have a bed off of the office, and it would make the layout of Hogwarts rather unwieldy. It would make more sense for the professors to have their own little wing all to themselves.
Loony'sCool
Aug 21 2008, 02:38 PM
Okay! I just can't picture adults all in one wing. Well I can picture it buts its kinda funny. Becuase I am picturing the gryffindor boys dormatry and all these adults laying on the beds with there feet hanging off becuase there to big. LOL its a funny image in my mind. But I am sure they have bigger beds.
bookworm_1918
Aug 21 2008, 02:50 PM
Where do the Teachers sleep? Do they have rooms off the side of there office with a bed or somthing it it?Well, I don't think McGonagall slept in the Gryffindor tower. Remember in one of the books when Ron had his 'nightmare' and Percy was trying to calm everyone down and Professor McGonagall came storming in from the corridor, in a bathrobe??? So I'd say that it branches off their office, but that's just me...I don't know what you guys think!
Haha Loony'sCool that's funny.
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Becuase I am picturing the gryffindor boys dormatry and all these adults laying on the beds with there feet hanging off becuase there to big.
Insomnia
Aug 21 2008, 03:21 PM
Where do the Teachers sleep? Do they have rooms off the side of there office with a bed or somthing it it?
Well, I'm thinking that the teachers have their private rooms off of their office. Reason I say this is because in HBP, when Ron ate the chocolate cauldrons with the love potion in it, Harry took Ron to Professor Slughorn's office area. When Slughorn opened the door, he was in his night clothes and told Harry that he usually slept in on Saturdays. So, his bedroom must be accessed through there somewhere. At the time, Slughorn was not a Head of House so I'm thinking all the teachers have those kinds of rooms. However, I'm sure the Heads of House have a bit nicer suite.
Just the Droobles
Aug 21 2008, 03:33 PM
I have always wondered if there are bathrooms in the common rooms. JKR always writes in so much detail and she never says anything like, "Before he went to bed, Harry took a shower". What do you think about this? Can wizards just magically make them self clean?I would definitely take advantage of being about to Scourgify myself. Not my mouth though since it has obvious repercussions.... Not having to shower and deal with my hair would save so much time. I think it'd be a pain in the rear to have to walk down some big corridor or go down to a different level or something just to use the bathroom. Maybe since they have specified times to be in bed, everyone knows they have to travel to the loo and get ready. Who knows. I'd hate to battle it out against the other girls in the bathroom though...
Where do the Teachers sleep? Do they have rooms off the side of there office with a bed or something it it?I think the thing that
Insomnia mentioned about Slughorn kind of answers this question. They most likely have a room off their office. When Lockhart was packing all his things, he was in his office or close by, so I assume the bedroom is attached.
Witherwings
Aug 21 2008, 04:36 PM
Where do the Teachers sleep? Do they have rooms off the side of there office with a bed or something it it?I think it's in their office or something. I definitely don't think they have one big wing for all the teachers, that just wouldn't make sense. It's funny to picture, actually. They do sleep, though, let's not get confused with the vampires.

*guilty* It's happened several times in the movies/books that the teachers were in their PJs.

Or maybe they magically make a bed appear or something, haha. But...
QUOTE(Insomnia)
When Slughorn opened the door, he was in his night clothes and told Harry that he usually slept in on Saturdays.
I agree that this says it all. To me, they just have a little room to themselves attached to their office.
Eisa
Aug 21 2008, 04:49 PM
Well, they should have a wing all to themselves.

LOL A place to get away from all the students! And then what does the poor teacher do if he or she has a nightmare? They're stuck by their office.

I also can't remember anything beyond the fourth book, so I didn't remember about Slughorn and stuff. Whoops.
bookworm_1918
Aug 21 2008, 06:38 PM
Good point, Insomnia! I didn't think of that! And this..
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They most likely have a room off their office. When Lockhart was packing all his things, he was in his office or close by, so I assume the bedroom is attached.
by Just the Droobles makes it fit in even more. So I think that takes care of the Teacher's Dormitory thing,
Also, it's not as though McGonagall is personally going to show Harry and Ron and Hermione where she sleeps, would she? But the fact that when HArry was taking Ron to Slughorn when he ate the love potion means that Harry knew that Slughorn didn't lseep in the TEacher's Dormitory, because it was a Saturday morning. Harry knew that Slughorn had his own personal quarters branching off of his office.
Loony'sCool
Aug 22 2008, 01:18 AM
I wonder what ever happened to the Durselys? Becuase they were taken to safety Maybe they were killed? I bet they hate being helped by what they call the M word?
Eisa
Aug 22 2008, 01:16 PM
I wonder what ever happened to the Durselys? Becuase they were taken to safety Maybe they were killed? I bet they hate being helped by what they call the M word?I'm sure they hated being helped by *gasp* the M word. I don't know if they were killed or not...I hope they weren't! I don't think they were...They were probably just taken to safety, and then maybe forgotten there?

I don't really know what ever happened to the Dursleys...I think I'd have to reread DH to even really think up an idea.
bookworm_1918
Aug 22 2008, 01:32 PM
Good question!!!
I wonder what ever happened to the Durselys? Becuase they were taken to safety Maybe they were killed? I bet they hate being helped by what they call the M word?
I'd think that they were taken to a safe plcae...watched over until Voldemort was dead. I think the people taking care of the Dursleys, though, brought them back to live in their house...where they eventually tried to forget what had happened those past seventeen years. That's just how I'd like to say it. I don't think they ever saw Harry again.
snapestinks**winkwink**
Aug 22 2008, 09:50 PM
I wonder what ever happened to the Durselys? Becuase they were taken to safety Maybe they were killed? I bet they hate being helped by what they call the M word? Good question, I've been wondering about that.
I think they were taken to saftey. I doubt they got killed. I think JKR would have said so. And besides, they didn't have anything to tell about Harry, except that they hated him. And yeah, they would hate to be around so much of the "M" word! -snapestinks
Eisa
Aug 22 2008, 10:00 PM
Yeah, wouldn't that pretty much be like, "What do you know about Harry?" And then they could launch into a nice, long list of his perceived transgressions and what a ruddy awful ungrateful boy he always was.

Heehee, that kind of reminds me of Chunk in
The Goonies when the bad guys catch him and make him start talking and he starts listing off every bad thing he's ever done.
Well, you know, that is if they could manage to talk at all. They might be too scared.
harrypotterlover1024
Aug 22 2008, 10:14 PM
I wonder what ever happened to the Durselys? Becuase they were taken to safety Maybe they were killed? I bet they hate being helped by what they call the M word? Someone probably came back to get them, and brought them back to their house. I'm guessing they hate magic even more now. Harry probably doesn't see them much, but he probably takes his family to go and visit them like once or twice a year. Haha I can imagine his kids playing with their toys that do magic things, and the Dursleys start like flipping out.
Loony'sCool
Aug 22 2008, 11:23 PM
You all have great posts about what might of happened to them. Thank you all for answering my question. I was just thinking they couldn't of gotten killed becuase who'd waste there magice on the Dursleys *luaghs*. But like ya'll said they wouldnt of been a great help to Vodly if he went to them for questions about Harry. But if he did I bet the Dursleys had a long talk over tea about how they all including Vodly hated Harry. *luaghs again*

. I am so happy passerby created the Ravenclaw common room. Becuase its a great place to get away and hang out talking about HP. so heres a shout out!
Thank You passerby for creating the Ravenclaw common room!
Eisa
Aug 22 2008, 11:44 PM
Well, even if Voldemort found the Dursleys where they'd been hidden, what would be the point of killing them?

They hate Harry probably just as much as he does. And besides that, at least in the beginning or whatever, it would probably be harder to hide Muggle deaths if they got out, wouldn't it?
snapestinks**winkwink**
Aug 23 2008, 01:21 AM
Yeah, why would anyone even bother to kill the Dursleys? Maybe Lucius Malfoy would torture them, remember how Voldy talks about that in the Graveyard. Besides, it's not going to help the bad side by killing them, is it?
bookworm_1918
Aug 23 2008, 03:58 PM
LOL Good point! Why would you bother killing the Dursleys???

Here's a question though...
Where do you think the Durlseys were kept throughout the seventh book Any ideas, anybody? What kinds of safehouses could wizards create for Muggles? Was it just the Dursleys, or did wizards live with them in that 'safe house'?
nimbus 2005
Aug 23 2008, 04:27 PM
Where do you think the Durlseys were kept throughout the seventh book ?
- They obviously were not taken to grimmauld place, and i doubt they were taken to any hide away with wizards so i bet they were taken outside of the country for a while, they might have even been brought back to privet drive after the battle over London.
Loony'sCool
Aug 23 2008, 05:45 PM
Where do you think the Durlseys were kept throughout the seventh book?
Well we will never know that. unless JK relesses a book about stuff left in answered. But I bet they wre taken out of the country to a place noone would think about. They mighta of even took them to the shake on the rock they stayed in before. But if voldy did want them he could of found any hiding place. So they wouldnt last but. I dont know.
nicky potter
Aug 23 2008, 06:00 PM
Where do you think the Durlseys were kept throughout the seventh book?
I was thinking something like they would have been protected by spells and charms anywhere that they were placed OR they too could've had there memory tampered. But that's just a thought. They might have been placed either far out of England or maybe actually taken out of the country. But I still think that if they were taken out of the country they would've been stibborn, put up a fight and then result into having a memory charm put on them like Hermione did with her parents. And make them believe they are another family.
I don't know; Again just thoughts.
Nicky<3
snapestinks**winkwink**
Aug 23 2008, 09:47 PM
Where do you think the Durlseys were kept throughout the seventh book?
I think they were taken out of the country for awile, to a place Voldy would never think of...maybe Siberia!

And they also probably had the memory of magic, harry, and they Potters' away, so even if they had info, no one would find out. They probably had the place charmed, but honestley, how many wizards would leave the country for muggles who have no information to give? Besides the OOTP have enough going on as it is.
nicky potter
Aug 23 2008, 09:52 PM
True why would anyone go after the Dursley's if they know almost nothing, but that doesn't mean that they don't know anything. They know why they're leaving anf regardless if it was up to Vernon, he would give them any information to save there skins, even if it meant making up som story about Harry conspiaring[Sp?] against Voldemort. Who knows.
Besides just being associated with Harry at that time meant death for many people. Didn't matter if you knew nothing. LV didn't know if they did. If he were to find the Dursleys and ask them and see that they are telling the truth he would still have to kill them for being asked the questions. So either way death was coming if they weren't re-located.
harrypotterlover1024
Aug 23 2008, 10:12 PM
Haha reading everyones posts made me laugh.
If the death eaters found the Dursleys they would probably torture them for information. Or they would try to get to Harry by telling him they would kill the Dursleys. Which makes me think of a new question:
If the Death Eaters told Harry they would kill the Dursleys unless he gave himself up, what do you think he would do?
nicky potter
Aug 23 2008, 10:15 PM
If the Death Eaters told Harry they would kill the Dursleys unless he gave himself up, what do you think he would do?Oh boy! Everyone is screwed

Umm well I don't know; I have this feeling that he might save them or attmept to kill the deaht eaters or lure them away. I don't know, Harry might have mixed feelings about this one. I think he might consult with Hermione for this one. It's a toughie haha
snapestinks**winkwink**
Aug 23 2008, 10:21 PM
If the Death Eaters told Harry they would kill the Dursleys unless he gave himself up, what do you think he would do?
He might try to contact them and tell them to go somewhere else. Or go and put more protective charms on the place they're staying.
padfootx3
Aug 23 2008, 11:40 PM
Is Dumbledore alive or dead in this question? Well probably dead

so i'll go with my theory for that...
If threatened I would think that Harry would contact the Order first and then help them put more protective charms and then he would hunt horcruxes and beat ol' voldy!!
Loony'sCool
Aug 24 2008, 04:59 AM
Yup he probally would contact the Order and maybe even the DA. But I doubt he would help put protective charms, becuase Hermione is the one good at that. So I bet he would leave that part to her. Even if Harry tried to help put the charms over the place it would probaly blow the place up LOL. Or maybe hermione would teach him how to properly put charms over a place.
MissGranger
Aug 24 2008, 05:00 AM
Hello There

I'm new to ravenclaw. Well.. The thread anyway.
If the Death Eaters told Harry they would kill the Dursleys unless he gave himself up, what do you think he would do?That is actually a very difficult question to answer. Because although Harry loathed them, they had been his only family his whole life, (apart from Sirius of course). So I think Harry would have wanted to protect them from voldemort.
Where do you think the Durlseys were kept throughout the seventh book?While reading DH I never even thought about the answer to this question, however now you've brought it up its definatly got me thinking. I think they might have had their memories tampered with and moved out of the country. But thats just my theory.
Loony'sCool
Aug 24 2008, 05:05 AM
Do you think the Prefects bathroom would be a cool place to take a bath?
I think it would be pretty sweet. Especially if I had a triwizard golden egg to stick into the water. The only thing I wouldnt like is knowing Mrytle could be watching me. I woul hate it if she was. It may not be that bad if for you girls becuase mrytle is the same sex as you. But for us guys I think we'd feel embarrased.
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