The one source for any of these dates that I see listed in the lexicon is the quote from POA: "It took them the best part of three years to work out how to do it." [how to become animagi] and "Finally, in our fifth year, they managed it ( Read more... )

I'm working on a fic that has some Marauder era stuff and I'm trying to figure out what year Snape, Lily, and the Marauders all started at Hogwarts. Do we have a definite birthday for any of the 5 so we can be sure of when they started at Hogwarts? I looked at the HP Lexicon website but different pages there are giving me different answers.

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Are there any scenes in the books where we see Molly Weasley speaking with Severus Snape?

The only scene I can think of is in OTP just after Harry arrives at number twelve, Grimmauld Place. That's a very short scene.

Are there other scenes?

I have searched the books and The Harry Potter Lexicon and can't find an answer. So, I'm turning to you guys ( Read more... )

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So is it Ron or Harry who tells Neville that he's worth twelve of Malfoy? I always thought it was Ron, but I might be mixing that up with the quidditch game ( Read more... )

Besides the mountain troll incident, are there any other cases of Hermione lying to Snape? Or, like that one, lying to McGonagall or someone else while Snape is there? I'm not counting the boomslang theft as lying, since she doesn't get accused and have the chance to deny it ( Read more... )

Two Questions

I was browsing Wikipedia and on the page for Lucius Malfoy, it says "Lucius Malfoy, the son of a prominent wizard named Abraxas Malfoy (who died years later of dragon pox) ...". Has this been mentioned in canon or by JK Rowling? It's new to me and I was wondering how much truth is in it ( Read more... )

Okay, I need to know where, and from whom, Harry finds out about James saving Snape from being attacked by Remus when he went to the Shrieking Shack after Sirius set him up. Forgive me, but I don't actually own all of the books. *hides* I will, however, be more than thrilled to go check out whichever books I need to from the library to read the ( Read more... )

Does anyone other than Harry (mostly OotP) and Snape (PoA) use the CAPS LOCK OF RAGE?