I would take both of these as Flints.

I always figured that Sirius and Lupin were going to use Avada Kedavra there, dark magic or not. I suppose that there has got to be some other way of killing people, because I highly doubt that Dumbledore is going to teach Harry a killing curse to do away with Voldemort, but I always figured that this "murder" would have to do with love or something more abstract. I dunno about love killing Pettigrew... Nah, I think that Sirius and Lupin were ready to use dark magic in these circumstances. Pettigrew betrayed their friends; I don't think they're worrying about illegal curses and whatnot at this particular moment.

I presumed that the reason Ginny was shaking like mad was because of her whole ordeal in the Chamber of Secrets. I mean, if I were writing in a diary, somebody were writing back, I got possessed, I wrote my farewell on the wall, I went down a pipe into the Chamber of Secrets, a guy burst out of the diary, I fainted, I woke up to see Harry Potter on the verge of death with a basilisk fang in his arm, and then I thought I faced expulsion from Hogwarts, it would be a pretty scarring experience, eh? Perhaps there is something else in her past, but I doubt it. She seemed so innocent in the first two books; wouldn't you think that something really bad that happened to her at a young age would be sort of scarring?

Mmmm.... I think that's probably just a mistake in your edition. That never stood out to me before, and you'd think it would be something that I would have noticed between the 20+ times that I have read "Prisoner of Azkaban." I would look it up now, but I'm too lazy to walk across the room...

Yeah, I guess... I simply didn´t remeber this at the time when I read it and then I wrote this ç


I was reading again PoA yesterday(5/5/2005) when I came across Halloween. When they're searching the castle for Sirius Filch searches the dungeons. Whatever could Filch do against Sirius if he's only a Squib??? Isn't that weird??

The Marauder's Map only works within the ground of Hogwarts. It may be that such a map can only work within an unplottable zone, or in the general world, but not both. Since Sirius was not at Hogwarts until some time during book 3, Fred and George really didn't have much time to notice him.

Also, they seemed to concentrate on using the map for their own schemes, not for spying on the hundreds or thousands of people at the school. Mostly they used it to keep track of Filch, the prefects, and the professors, to stay out of their way. They'd no more care about Pettigrew, than some minor pratt like, say, Colin Creavy.

I'm working on a theory that the Harry Potter series is a continuation of the LoTR universe. Another way of putting it is that the Harry Potter world, is the world that the people of the Dark Ages really thought they lived in. They really believed in magic and witchcraft, just as much as they believed in wood and steel.

Now. on to my main point. If there is anything to my theory, then the dementors may be some remnant of the Nazgul, left from after the One Ring was destroyed. Yes, thhere are more of them, but that may be because there was always the possibilty that more than 9 of them could be created. Like the Nazgul, they are blind, they follow orders, etc., but they are somewhat less powerful. Perhaps the magic of the Nazgul has been deluted across about 200 ghouls, or whatever, to create the dementors.

We do not know how the dementors came into existence. Whether they were created, made, or whether they have always existed like poltergists, it seems unlikely they were born as dementors, and that dementors are just another magical creature, like dragons. Why? Because there are no baby dementors, and no dementor mothers.

(A dementor mother is nearly an unthinkable thought!)

I think the origins of the dementors is a secert locked within the Department of Mysteries, as is the question of who first made a horcrux, and how was the process discovered?