So is Dean Thomas’s father a muggle or not….?
Because he says in the 7th book that he left. WHAT IF HE WAS A WIZARD. I just want to know this.
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actually, Jo had a small bio of dean on the old version of her website so I can answer this one. What happened was Dean thought he was muggleborn because he grew up with his muggle parents. But in all actuality his biological father was a wizard who left his mother before Dean was born and she never found out the truth about him. He was killed by death eaters when he refused to join them. So Dean grew up with his mum and his muggle step dad, but never knew that his step dad wasn’t actually his dad until later.
How did she create the characters?
Like Voldemort. How did she create Voldemort, and how evil and cruel he is. Like when she was thinking about Voldemort, was it someone from her past, like bullies at school or it just popped into her head like “Oh I’m going to make a really cruel bad guy, that everybody is afraid of and doesn’t like.”
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how did you come up with the last chapter of deathly hallows while writing the philosopher’s stone?
you are brilliant
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I would love the debate of Peter being in gryffindor to be settled once and for all.
caroline-le-fay:
askjorowling:
Jo has said the sorting hat has never been wrong but so many people argue about Pettigrew being sorted correctly. Where is his bravery? Why was he put into gryffindor? I believe that his house is correct because she said it is, but we have no knowledge or examples to show us. He’s portrayed as cowardly most of the time.
So why then was gryffindor the right house for him?
In the end, the house puts you where you choose to be. It seems like a little known secret that a few people happened to just figure out - much like Harry did.
Peter probably met Remus or James (probably not Sirius because Sirius probably wasn’t as keen to go against his family until after his sorting and such) on the train and whenever he realized that one or both of them were Gryffindors, he was terrified of being anything else. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who’d make friends very easily, so chances are he was pretty worried about that.
I bet he begged the Hat to put him in Gryffindor instead.
Jo says the Sorting Hat has never been wrong, and use Peter as an example of the Hat being very wrong. But we don’t know what his sorting was actually like. The Hat could’ve wanted to put him in Slytherin (or a different house, though he seems to have more Slytherin qualities…), but wasn’t going to put him there against his will. So he gave him exactly what he wanted.
hmm i see what you’re saying, but the hat did put Neville into Gryffindor even though he asked it for Hufflepuff so I don’t think you can just put it on and say I’D LIKE RAVENCLAW PLZ and then get into ravenclaw.
I think if the hat’s having a hard time it will take your thoughts into consideration, but mostly it puts you where it sees you having the most potential and getting the most growth, regardless of if you like it or not.
Harry was a special case because he didn’t really have that many slytherin qualities. The hat was reading voldemorts soul inside him. I think Harry was a true Gryffindor and the horcrux just threw the hat off.
But still… it’s weird with Peter just because we know so little about him before all of the bad. =|
I would love the debate of Peter being in gryffindor to be settled once and for all.
Jo has said the sorting hat has never been wrong but so many people argue about Pettigrew being sorted correctly. Where is his bravery? Why was he put into gryffindor? I believe that his house is correct because she said it is, but we have no knowledge or examples to show us. He’s portrayed as cowardly most of the time.
So why then was gryffindor the right house for him?
Hogwarts robes have the trim in the color of the house, right? As well as the ties? How exactly does that work? Do they buy the robes and then after they’re sorted the colors magically appear? Or do the house-elves fix them? Or what exactly?
askjorowling:
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as everyones already said in the notes, the house colours on the robes is a film thing. In the book they don’t wear any muggle clothing at all, not vests or trousers or jumpers or ties etc.etc. its just a a set of plain black robes. It makes sense, as robes are the norm in the wizarding world. Robes aren’t like, those things you wear around the house or after a bath, that are open in the front and tie at the waist.
theyre like full dressing gowns. I assume they’re fitted sometimes and have different styles, just like muggle shirts and pants and dresses. Like dressrobes will have fancy collars and sleeves and layers that button down the front etc.
Robey things~ But I wont get started on magical fashions xD Ill never shut up. Heres some pictures though that convey what I mean quite nicely.
by makani, she drew a really fantastic one of the Malfoys wedding but I’m to lazy to find it.
Anyway, I always imagined that robes they wear in the books were quite like over large dresses. Sort of like Merlins in disney’s sword in the stone, only black.
and I assume it’s custom in the wizarding world to not wear anything but your undergarments underneath because I’m fairly certain I remember harry talking about putting his trousers on under his robes once… or something. I might be wrong.
If Harry saw his mother die in front of him, then why can he only see the thestrals after seeing Cedric dying?
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Because only a wizard who has fully come to terms with a death, experienced and fully processed it, can see the Thestrals.
Harry couldn’t see them from day one because you don’t literally have to see a death to see thestrals. If it were true that you literally had to see death then Harry wouldn’t have been able to see them after Cedric anyway because the pain in his scar at the time was blinding him.
He couldn’t see them at the end of the book, pulling the carriages on the ride back to the Hogwarts express, because he hadn’t come to terms with Cedrics passing; it took the summer before 5th year for him to work through it, for it to sink in and for him to come to terms with it.
THAT is when he was able to see them.
As an infant there was no way he could’ve went through the proper steps to understand death, even if Jo hadn’t told us he was in his cot and hadn’t seen his mother die.
