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themostepotente) wrote2004-08-11 07:49 pm
themostepotente) wrote2004-08-11 07:49 pm
Fandom Discussion -- Unanswerable Questions of the Potterverse!
Okay folks -- so this is where you go if you have a question that's been bugging the shite out of you.
Your fellow Potteraholics can respond or add a question of their own.
Let's begin by asking;
If you look at Sirius Black's wanted posters in the movie (a good close up if you're a dork like me and own the actual poster), you'll notice Sirius is holding a sign with the numbers (presumably) 390 and a bunch of symbols.
First and foremost, are we to assume that 390 is Sirius' prison number? Does this mean he's the 390th prisoner of Azkaban? Azkaban has been around for how long and with such a small number? If this is the case, I am truly impressed by the wizarding penal system.
Secondly, what the FUCK are those symbols supposed to denote? Is it some sort of weird sign language? Might the aliens have constructed Azkaban after baffling the Muggles with Stonehenge? (That was a joke, btw :P)
Have an unanswerable question? Post it here!
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Your fellow Potteraholics can respond or add a question of their own.
Let's begin by asking;
If you look at Sirius Black's wanted posters in the movie (a good close up if you're a dork like me and own the actual poster), you'll notice Sirius is holding a sign with the numbers (presumably) 390 and a bunch of symbols.
First and foremost, are we to assume that 390 is Sirius' prison number? Does this mean he's the 390th prisoner of Azkaban? Azkaban has been around for how long and with such a small number? If this is the case, I am truly impressed by the wizarding penal system.
Secondly, what the FUCK are those symbols supposed to denote? Is it some sort of weird sign language? Might the aliens have constructed Azkaban after baffling the Muggles with Stonehenge? (That was a joke, btw :P)
Have an unanswerable question? Post it here!
--P
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How did Voldemort/Wormtail/Crouch, Jr. manage to brew polyjuice potion overnight when it took close to a month for Hermione to do it in CoS?
How did Salazar Slytherin put the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets in a bathroom when the kind of modern plumbing it takes to make a bathroom like that did not exist when Hogwarts was founded?
How did Voldemort get his wand back? Even if Wormtail picked it up that night at Godric's Hollow, where did *he* keep it for the 12 years he lived as a rat?
Why is it that, in book 1, Nearly Headless Nick says he hasn't eaten for close to 400 years, and then in book 2 we find out he's been dead for 500 years? Did he eat for the first 100 years after he died?
Why do I love these books so damn much even though they are riddled with ridiculous plot holes like these? ;-)
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#2 makes no damned sense.
#3 kind of makes sense. I know it's only movie verse, but clothing and personal objects are transfigured along with the body. So, Wormtail wouldn't need to store it in anything more than his suit pocket.
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Which? The question I posed? Or the way it's handled in the books?
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Then again, Rowling has shown she possesses a terrible head for figures.
Oh, is she Ms. Rowling, or Mrs. Rowling. As she is married, but she isn't the missus of her husband's last name?
That isn't an unanswerable question, just one I don't actually know at present.
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2. I thought the exact same thing myself. Maybe the wizards invented plumbing and kept it to themselves for all those years.
3. Ummm...criminals are very inventive when it comes to hiding contraband
inon their bodies...nevermind, don't go there. My bet would be that Lucius kept it all those years, along with the other goodies under the drawing room floor.Why didn't they use Veritaserum on Sirius before sending him to Azkaban?
How does Dobby disappear when he visits Harry in the hospital wing. You're not supposed to be able to apperate/disapperate on Hogwarts grounds.
Why don't the Weasleys use a cleaning charm after using the floo? You're wizards and witches, for pete's sake, seven years of school and you walk around Diagon Alley all sooty!
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Hmmm... no, I don't think so. Because then how would Peter have gotten it back? He'd have had to come out to Lucius as still being alive and told Lucius that Voldemort was trying to return, and my impression as always been that Lucius was taken completely by surprise in the graveyard scene at the end of GoF.
Why didn't they use Veritaserum on Sirius before sending him to Azkaban?
This is a really good question. They don't seem to use Veritaserum at all in the wizarding justice system, which is really odd. I don't recall anywhere in the books where it was used during trials. For example, they could have easily used it in Barty Crouch Jr.'s trial, too, but they obviously didn't.
House Elf Magic
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I've always assumed that Crouch was brewing it constantly. Or maybe it keeps a while after it's brewed if you make a big enough batch.
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