The Ultimate Harry Potter Discussion thread ***including Book 6 Spoilers***

In book 5, Nick says that you have to be a wizard, and basically have to be afraid of death- then you'll be a ghost-
all the ghosts are mentioned in book 1, including the grey lady- but no explaination- funny that Nick was 1492, maybe Columbus related?

I didn't say history...they do teach history at Hogwarts - "history of magic"....and they would need geography, for the obvious reason that they live on the same planet as muggles do, and therefore would require the same general knowledge about where countries and so on are.....and languages - well, clearly it might be a useful skill to be able to communicate with wizards in other countries...English - well, a general competence in writing/public speaking and whatever other skills you're supposed to pick up in English lessons has to be useful in the wizarding world too, doesn't it...I mean, you don't learn to write with style by ermm, magic(?), you know....and that leaves what? Oh yeah, maths - well, again, mathematical principles have to be just as true for wizards as for muggles, don't they? (Bit long-winded, but I've made my point)

Would I be wrong in assuming that we all believe that there is more that dumbledore knows than what he is telling Harry?

I said Muggle History though. Where you learn about WWII and that. As for geography, maybe the wizards see the world differently than us. After all, they do know many things about this world that we know nothing about.

Maybe all that sort of thing comes under Muggle Studies

I said Muggle History though. Where you learn about WWII and that. As for geography, maybe the wizards see the world differently than us. After all, they do know many things about this world that we know nothing about.

Do you think JKR will have anything to say onthe roles of wizards in the great wars of human time??? Eg. Hitler being a bad wizard??

She already has done. On the back on Dumbledores chocolate frog card, it says that he defeated a great wizard (forgotten his name) in the year 1945. Same year that WWII ended.

Grindewald

Did you have to look that up, or did you achully know who it was.

I just knew it!

One of the many random facts we all remember.

Do you think JKR will have anything to say onthe roles of wizards in the great wars of human time??? Eg. Hitler being a bad wizard??

yeah there are some parts that annoy me too. If i was harry, i would ask as much as possible: Other family, more volde stuff. But then again, if he did that there would be no point of writing the series

Or maybe she was just writing the book in 1992 and just needed it to be a significant deathday so picked 500, which just happened to be when Columbus discovered America.

Shilling, if you don't want to read the whole thread, I recommend you go to http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org and read all the interviews JKR's done (particularly her recent one for World Book Day, it answers some of the questions raised by book 5)

She already has done. On the back on Dumbledores chocolate frog card, it says that he defeated a great wizard (forgotten his name) in the year 1945. Same year that WWII ended.

I don't think Grindelwald WAS Hitler, although I'm sure he had him under Imperius or something- likewise maybe Voldie isn't anyone in particular, but just the backing of the world turmoil we've had in the last 20 years?