Feed of the top five threads from our book forums http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:23:33 -0400 30 http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=62285 Why was Neville so lost as a child

I think neville may have had his memory modified a little to much when his parents were tortured. Then as he grew older the spell may have begin to wear off! Can that happen?


Just wondering]]> 12 453 potterish10010 keola sombra Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:48:52 -0400 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:58:11 -0400 http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=62285 http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=63048 What caused Harry and Ginny to like each other?
I just found it very random.]]> 5 138 loonylikealuna Martok Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:53:27 -0400 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:18:46 -0400 http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=63048 http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=60653 Did he Redeem Himself? Opinions of our favorite Potions Master seem to be as varied as our opinions of our favorite Headmaster. The big question seems to be: Severus Snape : Did he really redeem himself for his earlier actions? What do you think?

Fully Redeemed: Severus completely redeemed himself. He became a totally different person than he had been during his Death Eater days.

Mostly Redeemed: Severus was a tortured, embittered man. His actions toward the students show that he was not fully redeemed, but he did the best he could.

Partially Redeemed: Snape only cared that his actions had caused Lily's death. He didn't even care that her husband and son were killed. All of his actions that can be considered good were to make it up to Lily. In all other ways he remained unchanged.

Unredeemed: Redemption requires repentance and Snape shows no signs that he ever repented of his Death Eater activities or that he had seen the error of his ways. If Voldemort had not threatened Lily he would have remained a faithful Death Eater to the end.

Other: I'll explain in my post.]]> 282 11142 harrydavid kidsnurse7 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:26:00 -0400 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:03:47 -0400 http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=60653 http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=41301 which one was more powerful? Which one was the best protected of all?
Which relic of the Four Founders of Hogwarts was the most powerful? Which one was the best protected? Express your views and explain your opinion about it. Happy posting!!

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p.s. thank you roonwit for making me think about the whole idea. ]]> 39 3298 You_wont_know_who Zoom Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:15:27 -0500 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:42:41 -0400 http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=41301 http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=61812
Yet the Order does the following:
- Bring a roaring flying motorbike.
- After the decoys are disguised and when they are all outside, Hagrid addresses Harry by name, Tonks addresses Ron by name. Bill and Kingsley assist Fleur and Hermione respectively onto the thestrals. Also, while all the fake Harrys are carrying cages with stuffed owls in them, only the real Harry is carrying a Firebolt. Had the DEs been spying and listening with extendable ears (or their equivalent) they would have known who the real Harry was long before Harry disarmed Stan.
- As they leave, Moody shouts that they would meet at the Burrow.

I wonder about the protective spells on the Order safe-houses and the Burrow. Somehow nobody at the wedding was concerned about guests, waitstaff or bandmembers being Polyjuiced or otherwise impersonated so I would guess the protection was somehow keyed to individuals (perhaps the wedding invitations contained appropriate magical keys?). Yet the speed in which the protection is broken once Scrimgeour is killed suggests that part of the protection relied on the Ministry - despite the suspicion under which the Ministry was held by the Order.

Then there is the matter of mutual identification. When Lupin arrives at 12GP, almost all the information he gives to identify himself is a matter of public record (his being a werewolf, his marriage to Tonks, the form of Harry's Patronus) and the rest - his nickname and the creation of the Marauders' Map - are things that Snape knows and could have told the DEs. (Edit: Peter knows that too.) He does not tell Harry anything private that only he and the trio knew. Also, Lupin makes no effort to verify the trio aren't DEs that Snape smuggled into 12GP.

Also, the protections set against Snape are described as protections intended to prevent him from speaking the location of 12GP, but what about writing it down?

Fortunately the DEs weren't trying to impersonate anyone on the Order/trio side, nor did they do any serious spying, and Snape kept the secrecy of 12GP for his own reasons.]]> 112 2660 Oryx roonwit Mon, 12 May 2008 14:46:51 -0400 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:31:15 -0400 http://www.leakylounge.com/index.php?showtopic=61812