I noticed that too—I’m not sure what it is with Moody, but in an earlier revision of Chapter 97 he’d ended the chapter by saying “what the crap—” (it’s now been changed to “WHAT—”). It’s unclear if EY edited the earlier chapter because it wasn’t very British or because it seemed out-of-place, but for whatever reason, he’s saying it again now.
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For that matter, “mention” is misspelled as “mentio” in the A/N.
I don’t see why they’re still worried about Bellatrix, it looks like she’s been rendered mostly ’armless.
“Fourth. One piece of exceedingly unexpected and happy news. Hermione Granger is alive and in full health, sound of body and mind. Miss Granger is being observed at St. Mungo’s to see if there are any unexpected afteraffects from whatever happened to her, but she appears to be doing astonishingly well considering her previous condition.”
Should be “aftereffects”.
I guess the only other evidence we have is that the Map, using the wards, would (implicitly) alternate between showing him as QQ and TR depending on whether QQ was being actively possessed, but as far as we know reported relatively consistently on the presence of the Defense Professor, such that it was a surprise to Dumbledore that the wards reported him being the troll. We do know that the wards are able to remain aware of identity even through transfiguration, as shown with both the troll and the unicorn.
It seems like that’s about as consistent with the hypothesis “the wards counted QQ’s body, QQ’s suppressed consciousness, TR’s consciousness, and the troll as the Defense Professor” as it is with “the wards just counted QQ’s body and the troll as the Defense Professor”. It comes down to whether it’s more likely that the wards use the simpler strategy of tracking bodies (as Velorien said) since there would be little reason to track spirits/consciousnesses, or that they target your magical “self” as well as the Map seems to do, possibly based on some fundamental aspect of magical self-ness.
Of course, all this is even assuming the wards track the deaths of professors. It seems like the sort of thing you’d want wards to do, but I can’t think of anywhere that that’s been confirmed. We do know that the wards didn’t report that the Defense Professor died after the troll died, so if it does keep track of the deaths of professors, it doesn’t count as death when some living portion of “the Defense Professor” is still alive.
If Harry’s right about the effect that transfiguring the stunned Voldemort will have, won’t the wards identify “the Defense Professor” as still alive?
Ch. 116:
But the International Conferation of Wizards
Should be “Confederation”.
Madam Hooch brew a shrill whistle
Should be “blew”.
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I wonder if he’s just getting a new name for arbitrary reasons (like HPJEV, Bellatrix, etc.), for just this sort of anagram fun, or for some story-related significance to his mother naming him after her brother instead of her father?
Looks like I misunderstood the relevant passage in Chapter 49--when Quirrell confirms that other snake Animagi can’t overhear them, he isn’t implying that you also have to be a Parselmouth, he’s implying that he can only understand Harry because Harry wills it.
Iirc, in canon, the Gaunt family (Voldemort’s family) was the last living set of descendants of Salazar Slytherin, and they were very inbred by the time of the books, so it appears that JKR at least provided some workaround for this.
As for the reliability of Parseltongue, there’s some precedent for it apparently serving as truth-enforcement. Chapter 49:
“I am not regisstered,” hissed the snake. The dark pits of its eyes stared at Harry. “Animaguss musst be regisstered. Penalty is two yearss imprissonment. Will you keep my ssecret, boy? ”
“Yess,” hissed Harry. “Would never break promisse.”
The snake seemed to hold still, as though in shock, and then began to sway again.
[...]
“You ssay nothing, to no one. Give no ssign of expectancy, none. Undersstand?”
Harry nodded.
“Ansswer in sspeech.”
“Yess.”
“Will do as I ssaid?”
“Yess.”
Professor Quirrell is known for his aversion to unnecessarily redundant conversation, so it seems likely here that he wants to be sure Harry is telling the truth. Later, in Chapter 66:
“Lessson I learned is not to try plotss that would make girl-child friend think I am evil or boy-child friend think I am sstupid,” Harry snapped back. He’d been planning a more temporizing response than that, but somehow the words had just slipped out.
It would have helped Quirrell convince Harry in Azkaban, but it’s possible he thought it would be more useful for Harry not to know yet how much information his unwittingly-true answers were giving Quirrell.
For that matter, why did he ever bother turning into his snake form? Just to make Harry think he had the limitation of not being able to speak Parseltongue while human, for some reason?
As for the last possibility, he doesn’t leave from the Quidditch game until around a quarter past 11, so that can’t help him for another five hours or so.
Professor Quirrell then turned back to where the Potions Master lay sprawled, bent over and placed his wand on Professor Snape’s forehead. “Alienis nervus mobile lignum.”
The Defense Professor stepped back, and began to move his left fingers in the air as though manipulating a puppet on strings.
Professor Snape pushed himself up from the ground by smooth motions, and stood once more before the corridor door.
From Chapter 88: Time Pressure, Part 1, before anyone knows about the troll yet:
“You know,” Harry said, as he turned his head away to stare at the ceiling illusion of a clear blue sky, “that still creeps me out sometimes.”
“What does?” said Fred or George.
The powerful and enigmatic Defense Professor was ‘resting’ or whatever-the-heck-was-wrong-with-him, his hands making fumbling, hesitant grabs at a chicken-leg that seemed to be eluding him on the plate.
Are there any other times that Quirrell is described making similar gestures? (Note that another time he apparently controls someone else—the centaur in Chapter 101--he doesn’t do this, but that may be due to the centaur actually being dead as some have speculated.) [Edit for Ch. 106: Confirmed; the centaur and Fluffy became Infieri.]
Based on Harry apparently still feeling the aura of doom when Sprout was casting spells while Imperiused in Ch. 104, it’s likely that casting spells on Harry through someone else is subject to the same problems that doing it directly causes. I guess he could still use more mundane means like a tranquilizer dart and some kind of gurney, but it would be difficult to accomplish without either touching or using magic on Harry in the process.
That’s what I thought too, but any idea why the chapter ends by saying “nine days yet remained”?
I rot13d it in my comment just because it’s funnier if you figure it out yourself, and like many stealth jokes, it’s easy to figure out once you know there’s a joke to look for (if you’ve read canon). If it was an actual spoiler for the chapter that would facilitate discussion because it wasn’t just a random throwaway joke, then I wouldn’t rot13 it.
Not a spoiler, but rot13′d for explaining the joke:
“All of you in this room… have received grades of at least Acceptable. Neville Longbottom… who took this test in the Longbottom home… received a grade of Outstanding. But the other student who is not here… has had a Dreadful grade entered on her record… for failing the only important test… that was given her this year. I would have marked her even lower… but that would have been in poor taste.”
Gur bayl tenqr ybjre guna Qernqshy vf “Gebyy”.
¡He terminado!
Great tool. Does the API you’re using allow unanswerable questions to be flagged at all though? Just got one question that depended on an image that wasn’t there, and another with no question body. Also, labeled axes on the graph might be nice for people who don’t already know how calibration curves work and/or don’t like unlabeled axes.