--- <thermopyle@tds.net> wrote:

From: "Arthur Hansen" <arthur@kindred.net>
Date: 2004/06/29 Tue PM 12:15:41 GMT
To: <thermopyle@tds.net>,  <ffml@anifics.com>
Subject: [FFML] Re: that hp/ranma thing

Harry is only OOC in book five if you forget the fact that he has
classic signs of combat-shock stress. He did just see a kid get
murdered, fight for his life, etc.

His behavior at the beginning of book five doesn't at all fit this behavior at the end of book four.  It doesn't matter what justification you use; Rowling went overboard with Harry's bad behavior at the beginning of the book merely because she wanted to show that Harry is a teenager now, which of course means he MUST be angry, and because a lot of the readers are kids means she has to be obvious about it.  Not a reasoning I agree with, and it's one of the things that made book five very bad with respect to the flow of the series, even though book five had a lot of cool stuff in it.

[I really had no problem seeing Harry so angry at the begining when we are brought into his POV. He wasn't blindly lashing out. But that's a discussion for a different list, IMO.]

IIRC, you only need to have be 1/16th or 1/8. Think it was

1/8th.

One great-grandparent.

You're applying things here that aren't supported by the books,

as far as I know.  Yes, for blacks, that is the case...but where
in the books does it say anything of the sort for blood?

Because *nowhere* in any of the books is Harry called a Pure
Blood. Not even by Ron's family, even though they are obviously
(and unashamedly) Pure Blood.

Um.  That's the equivalent of saying that because there is no evidence against a person being a murderer, they must be one.  Really, there's no reason for anybody to start talking about the purity of Harry's blood; the people he associates with don't care about that, so it's simply not going to come up.  The only person who might bring it up is Draco, and Draco has NOT said anything bad about Harry's muggle ancestry, which is fairly significant; with Draco's beliefs about pure blood, that's the most obvious way for Draco to attack Harry, since he would feel that the most damaging insult.  But Draco never says anything of the sort.

[It is quite reasonable that Ron would have mentioned at *some* point in five years that Harry is considered to be a Pure Blood because both of his parents were magic. Even if it was just to jab back at Draco.]

[Harry isn't a Mudblood, but he's not a Pureblood either. He's just wizard-born. It's really heavily shown that you are only considered to be 'Pureblood' if you can trace back all of your ancestery back for many generations. The Black Family Tapestry bears this out.]

Check the Lexicon.  And yes, Black isn't in school, but I was

just giving examples of pureblood families that are in the
series.

I was specifically talking about Hogwarts student when you
mentioned Sirius Black, is all.

Fine, then, I'll be more specific: Draco Malfoy is half-Black.

[This really seems a moot point at this point.]
 

Could you imagine Dumbledore getting a hold of a 20cm shroom?

Or

Happosai?

Actually, that's an obvious flaw in the story; if Happousai is

dying, why doesn't he try to find a mushroom to rejuvenate
himself?

Yeah.

It would be best to drop Happousai completely from the fic, really.

[I agree. Happosai adds nothing at this point. And he's being shoe-horned in so that Ranma is the Grandmaster of Anything Goes when he's 11.]

[Arthur Hansen]

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