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Initial notes on HBP, chapter 16 "A Very Frosty Christmas"
Comments/Notes
Oh, my poor heart, where has it gone?
It's left me for a spell...
Another candidate for jokes to be lost in translation.
Who's Greyback?
"Fenrir Greyback is, perhaps, the most savage werewolf alive today. He regards it as his mission in life to bite and to contaminate as many people as possible; he wants to create enough werewolves to overcome the wizards. Voldemort has promised him prey in return for his services. Greyback specializes in children...Bite them young, he says, and raise them away from their parents, raise them to hate normal wizards. Voldemort has threatened to unleash him upon people's sons and daughters; it is a threat that usually produces good results.
"It was Greyback who bit me."
Greyback bit Remus because Remus' father had offended him. Remus didn't know for a long time the identity of the werewolf who bit him. Outline of Greyback's tactics to get around the mindless violence of the werewolf state.
Wizarding characters
Black, Sirius
Brown, Lavender
Crouch, Bartemius (senior)
Delacour, Fleur
Dumbledore, Albus
Granger, Hermione
Greyback, Fenrir
Lupin, Remus
Malfoy, Draco
McLaggen, Cormac
Potter, Harry ("the Chosen One")
Potter, James
Riddle, Tom Marvolo (as Voldemort, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named)
Robards, Gawain - Scrimgeour's successor as Head of the Auror Office
Scrimgeour, Rufus
Shunpike, Stan
Slughorn, Horace
Snape, Severus
Tonks, Nymphadora
Umbridge, Dolores
Warbeck, Celestina
Weasley, Arthur
Weasley, Bill
Weasley, Charlie
Weasley, Fred
Weasley, George
Weasley, Ginny
Weasley, Molly
Weasley, Percy
Weasley, Ronald "Ron"
(names unknown) two other arrests besides Stan Shunpike's who should've been released
Muggle characters
(name unknown) girl in the paper shop at Ottery St Catchpole who thinks George's card tricks are something marvelous
places
Ottery St Catchpole - the Burrow, the paper shop
creatures
gnome
house-elves
Kreacher
Strictly British
bowler hat
camp bed
prat
satsuma
snogging
sprout
wireless
items
Exploding Snap
Pensieve
Wolfsbane Potion
books
Advanced Potion-Making Published nearly 50 years prior to Harry's sixth year (HBP16).
dreams
...falling into an uneasy sleep full of creeping shadows and the cries of bitten children
songs
(Warbeck) "A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love" - popular when Arthur and Molly were 18
(Warbeck) "You Charmed the Heart Right Out of Me"
spells
Levicorpus
Mentioned by Harry to Lupin as a clue to the identity of the Half-Blood Prince (HBP16).
Patronus
Harry asked Lupin why the form of Tonks' Patronus would change; Lupin siad that sometimes a great shock or emotional upheaval causes such things (HBP16).
Stupefy
Fred et al Stupefied a garden gnome that bit Fred on the ankle, then trussed it up and used it as an angel on the Christmas tree (HBP16).
Unbreakable Vow
If the swearer breaks an Unbreakable Vow, he or she dies (HBP16).
Fred and George tried to get Ron to swear an Unbreakable Vow when he was five years old; Arthur caught them, leading to the only occasion on which Ron had ever seen Arthur get as angry as Molly does (HBP16).
Fred Transfigured a knife into a paper airplane when Ron threw it at him (HBP16).
Quotes
"And speaking of hitherto unsuspected skills, Ronald," said George, "what is this we hear from Ginny about you and a young lady called - unless our information is faulty - Lavender Brown?"
Ron turned a little pink, but did not look displeased as he turned back to the sprouts. "Mind your own business."
"What a snappy retort," said Fred. "I really don't know how you think of them. No, what we wanted to know was...how did it happen?"
"What d'you mean?"
"Did she have an accident or something?"
"What?"
"Well, how did she sustain such extensive brain damage?"
- George, Fred, and Ron Weasley
"Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit." - Lupin
"Well, we find we appreciate you more and more, Mum, now we're washing our own socks," said George, waving an airy hand.
July 20 2005, 11:27:26 UTC 6 years ago
Strictly British
bowler hat - black hat like Charlie Chaplin wore. Traditionally (and no longer) worn by businessmen in London, and accompanied by umbrella and briefcase.
camp bed - folding bed used for extra guests
prat - stupid person
satsuma - small orange
snogging - kissing, usually with lots of saliva and by teenagers
sprout - brussel sprout, vegetable eaten with Christmas dinner
wireless - radio
July 29 2005, 16:57:14 UTC 6 years ago
August 27 2005, 21:44:38 UTC 6 years ago
levicorpus
Question. Snape (umm Professor Snape ) is assumed to have develope d the levicorpus spell (and noted in the margins of Advanced Potion Making as the HBP. Lupin recalls the spell being popular in "his 5th year" which would be before their N.E.W.T year.(supported by the fact that James uses it in the pensieve after O.W.L. exams. Snape must be in the same year - not only do thay mention that, but he is seen taking O.W.L. s at the same time. Since it was his mothers book had Snape just already begun to work from it even though he was not at N.E.W.T level because he was so gifted at potions? Is this just a JK math glitch? Did Snape not invent it and just notate an in vogue spell? I thought they might have been using the same book 5th year, but then Harry and Ron wouldn't have needed to buy it. Not trying to nitpick, only curious about the theory that Snape created the spell.