Going back to the sbject of whether or not the Dursley's beat Harry or not, there was a moment when Vnon was trying to rush them out of the house, Dudley tried to pack his VCR and a few other thing, then Vernon 'hit Dudley round the head'. If Vernon is willing to hit his precious son, why would't he hit Harry?

If you are badly injured while drinking the Elixer of Life, can you die that way? Does the Elixer make it so that you will live forever (while your drinking it) or make it so you will live forever as long as you are not stabed or killed in any other way?

Doesn't JKR say that Norbert started to eat rats by the bin?

I believe in a way, Merlin is refered to as a 'wizard god' as you put it.

Hagrids taste in creatures about overcoming creatures that can kill him.

About the Mirror of Erised and the room Harry found it in. I looked over the information in Pottermore about the Mirror and it says that it had been stored in the Room of Requirement until Dumbledore got the idea of using it for the protection of the stone. It also said that Dumbledore made modifications to it so that it could store the stone so it was not actually something the Mirror was able to do before.
The disused classroom might not actually be one, it might be the Room of Requirement. Or it might be some classroom Dumbledore chose to use while he worked on it. Maybe Harry surprised Dumbledore that first night or Dumbledore found Harry and Ron in front of the Mirror one night.

My second comments refers back to episode 2 (sorry it took me some time to catch up with you ;) ) and to the issues about Goblins, how they run the banking business but are still quite excluded from the rest of the wizarding society. I was strongly reminded of Jews in medieval and early modern Europe, before they were granted equal rights. Just as against the Goblins there were prejudices and they weren't generally part of the larger society and they were also active in money lending and changing. I never picked up on this before, thought it might be interesting.

About the meaning of the motto, I also wrote an essay about it a while ago that is in the Quibble section here on Alohomora, you should check it out :)

It seems to me that Dumbledore's string pulling is at least the primary reason events fall so fortuitously into line. There are several reasons I find this plausible. Dumbledore was both incredibly well informed and absurdly intelligent. This sort of combination makes it plausible that he would be able to come up with such intricate and lengthy strategies. Additionally, the fact that the wizarding community is quite small lends itself to getting important information with relative ease. It creates an environment of people who all have known each other for virtually all of their lives. Gossip spreads more quickly in groups containing smaller, overlapping groups of close friends. Now, this isn't to say that some things were not controlled by Dumbledore. That the D.A. was thus named could not have come about by Dumbledore's doing. Also, the pacing and much of the manner of the Horcrux/Hallows hunting was totally out of Dumbledore's control. Snape was helping, but there was not all that much he could do to dictate the behavior and thought processes of the trio. It could very well be that magical energy works towards some sort of greater end. But the role it plays I think would at most be a slight tipping of the odds in favor of the good--not a guarantee of the actualization of the best possible of out comes, however that would be determined.

I'm only at the end of the discussion of Chapter 13 at this point but I thought I'd add in my thoughts while they're in my head.

I think that gold is valuable to wizards BECAUSE it is one of Gamp's Exceptions, rather than an exception because it is valuable. Gold wouldn't be valuable any more if just anybody could produce it at any time. And I think Galleons are made out of gold. You completely undermine their economic system if anybody can create gold. It's a subtle difference but a difference none-the-less.

Voldemort needed the Stone to return him to his body. The horcruxes anchored him to the Earth when he should have died on Halloween 1981. However he lost his body. The unicorn blood strengthened him some, but he needed the stone to return him to full power.

I think Dumbledore might have been interested in Alchemy both because he likes learning and research for the sake of learning and research, and also because of the similarity between what the Stone offers to what the Deathly Hallows offer. I'm not saying he wanted to use the Stone himself, but having been interested in Hallows all his life, I can see how this would interest him also.

Wonderful podcast so far. And so long! It's great.

Hello. I've just finished reading chapters 13 & 14 so I could be up to the same point as the podcast and I have a few questions on the chapter. Firstly I was wondering how it was possible for Charlie Weasley's friends to fly on brooms into Hogwarts grounds? Isn't this suppose to be impossible, except for Dumbledore who's headmaster and gets to do it in book six?

Also I found it funny how Hermione and Ron had prepared the Leg Locker curse to use on Snape in the match. If they had used this on him, would his legs snap together with enough force to break the broomstick he's on? Just a funny though.

You're podcast is amazingly interesting to read along with and I'm enjoying every moment.l

@Pygmypuff94 Email it to me! Noah@staff.mugglenet.com

Sorry for the terrible grammar in my first comment. It was really bugging me so I'm fixing it now:
Going back to the subject of whether or not the Dursley's beat Harry, there was a moment when Vernon was trying to rush them out of the house, and JKR says, "his father had hit him round the head for holding them up while he tried to pack his television, VCR, and computer in his sports bag.". If Vernon is willing to hit his precious son, why wouldn't he hit Harry?

@Remus_Lupin I'm pretty sure it says somewhere in the series that if you're entering school grounds you can enter any way you want along as it's not a surprise. Charlie's friends were all on brooms so they could have been seen coming. Even if you're right Remus knowing Dumbledore he probably knew that they were coming and would have removed the enchantment for that night.

I did a drawing for Norbert(a) who or where should I send it too???

Golden Snidget, I had the thought that if J.K was ever asked this question she'd probably say that 'Dumbledore knows everything that happens at school', but I hoped maybe some other explanation came up in the series that I had missed.
Thankyou for your input :)

@thegoldensnitch I think (but not positive) that during Hermione's first year she would've seen herself in the mirror being excepted by wizardkind. ( Or something along those lines.) I assume that because in Hermione's first years at hogwarts. She was very insecure and wanted to fit in.

I personally strongly disliked Steve Vander Ark being on the show, please dont put him on again!

Thanks FlightQuest91 I realised after I posted that Hermione said something like if you already had food you can make more or if you had something you can turn it into food.l

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