Posted on 07/21/2007 5:18:11 PM PDT by JenB
Great line.
Just finished this morning (Amazon lost our copy!). I have to admit Neville with the sword confused me at first. Took me a awhile to figure out where it came from.
I don't know if anyone has posted it yet, but JKR is intending to write an encyclopedia. From what I gathered from her interview (Today show? CBS? This morning, anyway) she had wanted to include a proper epilogue in the book, including the usual "where are they now?" but for all the central characters. I think that is part of her goal with the encyclopedia.
BTW, also not sure if it has been mentioned yet: She told one young fan this morning that Harry and Ron went on to "revolutionize" the Auror department, and that Hermione became quite an important figure in Magical Law Enforcement. Not the future I would have planned for Hermione.
I alway pictured her as a professor at Hogwarts, but Longbottom appears to have taken that position.
And what is the distinction between Aurors and magical law enforcement?
I'm not certain. He's definitely at the Burrow on p93, just before the wedding. I don't recall any mention of him after the wedding. He probably got evacuated to Aunt Muriel's, but even if he didn't I presume he fared ok as he'd be beneath the attention of any Death Eaters and there were plenty of chickens available which would have been left before Ginny would have left him. However I suspect Hermione will receive a greeting on her return which will make the one she gave Ron seem warm by comparison.
That's got me confused, too. I thought "Magical Law Enforcement" was the department, and "aurors" were the employees.
I believe Aurors are like the police and law enforcement is like a district attorney
My impression has always been that “magical law enforcement” are cops, and Aurors are more like James Bond. MLE show up for exploding toilets and violations of statutes; Aurors go after Dark wizards and vampires and things like that.
oops, that link won’t open, and the site won’t let you copy/paste due to copywright laws. However if you google Harry Potter lexicon it will take you to a neat site that provides explanations for everything magical. :)
The site’s not loading - probably overwhelmed by traffic :-).
The fact that the two of you are saying different things, while “steelerfan” and I are saying a third thing, suggests that it hasn’t been made perfectly clear in the the text!
Yeah..:) The link just said that the MLE was a dept. of the ministry that ensured that wizarding laws were followed and that Aurors were specially trained wizards and witches who locate dark wizards.
Which is basically what I was trying to say :)
I assume Hermione is some sort of lawyer/lobbyist type... I could see her as a zealous prosecutor, or a social worker, pretty equally.
Yeah that’s what I thought too, law enforcement and the district attorney. :) I think you and I were pretty much on the same wave length. Great minds and all. ;)
Okay, this is as far as I have reviewed the comments so perhaps someone has beaten me to the point, but I wonder if Dumbledore failed to use the wand on Voldemart for the same reason that Gandalf and Galadriel failed to take the Ring of Power when it was offered to them. They couldn’t trust themselves with that much power. After all, Dumbledore had already seen what his youthful lust for power had done to destroy his family.
It was funny, though, when the Minister of Magic asked her if she planned on going into law and she scoffed something to the effect of, “No I hope to do some good in the world”
With all of the captured Death Eaters there’s a whole lot of prosecuting to be done.
I had expected Crookshanks to play a larger role somehow after POA (thought maybe he too was an animagi in hiding???). I suppose JKR did that purposely to keep us all guessing.
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