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Why did the Order only threaten the Dursleys after Harry's fifth year?

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 19:28:13 GMT

Posted by: sunnyskywalker

Many readers have wondered why none of the adults who care about Harry confronted the Dursleys during his first five years at Hogwarts. What suddenly made them take action in 1996 when they hadn’t seen a need before? ( Read more... )

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What Lucius Knew About the Diary

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 11:17:00 GMT

Posted by: sunnyskywalker

...and when he knew it.

I was reading through the comments to one of Terri’s old fics, and got sucked back into the probably-irresolvable tangle of questions about what Lucius was really planning during Chamber of Secrets. Piecing together some of the comments and one or two of my old speculations, we might at least be able to come up with a mostly-coherent hypothesis for one of those questions: what exactly did Lucius think the Diary was, and what did he think it would do?
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HPCOS: The Tally

Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:29:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

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18 HP Chamber of Secrets

Sat, 03 Aug 2019 13:45:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

I'm skipping next week. Next entry from me will be around 16th.

Ch18 Dobby’s Reward

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17 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:04:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

Ch17 The Heir of Slytherin

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16 HP Chamber of Secrets

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:14:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

There is chance I won't be able to post this entry tomorrow so you guys get it a day early. Enjoy! :)

Ch16 The Chamber of Secrets

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15 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:29:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

Ch15 Aragog

>”‘We’re taking no more chances,’ Madam Pomfrey told them severely through a crack in the hospital door. ‘No, I’m sorry, there’s every chance the attacker might come back to finish these people off …’”So what, if I’m bleeding out Pomfrey will still refuse to let me in? Can’t you place petrified victims in more secure location and open the wing to general populous? It’s not like students can catch anything from hospital wing’s residents. +1 to LOL

>Also does it means she suspects that those two are behind the attacks? Considering how shifty they act, I suppose this isn’t that unreasonable assumption...

>Due to Albus not being at the school students now are more scared... Are we still talking about the same man that did nothing visible to catch the culprit or lessen chances of any further attacks? +1 to LOL

>”Snape swept past Harry, making no comment about Hermione’s empty seat and cauldron” That dastardly Snape! Daring to ignore our hero’s woe!

>Aww, Draco is cute here!

>”Snape smirked as he swept off around the dungeon, fortunately not spotting Seamus Finnigan, who was pretending to vomit into his cauldron” and thus contaminating his potion. It’s wonder that any Gryffindor survives long enough to graduate.

>With seven years and 4 houses, how teachers manage to take students to classes? +1 to LOL

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14 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 18:13:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

Ch14 Cornelius Fudge

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13 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 23:20:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

Ch13 The Very Secret Diary

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12 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:21:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

Ch12 The Polyjuice Potion

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11 HP Chamber of Secrets

Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:53:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

So after tournament of Prismata and sinking way too many hours into Disgaea 5, here I’m sitting and wondering how deadlines are supposed to work. *shakes head at her own behaviour*

Ch11 The Duelling Club

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10 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:44:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

Ch10 The Rogue ~~One~~ Bludger

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09 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:04:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

Ch9 The Writing on the Wall

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08 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 05 Oct 2018 22:44:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

Ch8 The Deathday Party

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07 HP Chamber of Secrets

Sat, 29 Sep 2018 11:06:00 GMT

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Ch7 Mudbloods and Murmurs

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06 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:11:00 GMT

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Ch6 Gilderoy Lockhart

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05 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:30:00 GMT

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Ch5 Whomping Willow

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04 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 22:30:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

Ch4 At Flourish and Blotts

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03 HP Chamber of Secrets

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 19:23:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

I was going to post this yesterday, but sadly day has only 24 hours. *shrugs*

Ch3 The Burrow

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02 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:45:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

Ch2 Dobby’s Warning

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01 HP Chamber of Secrets

Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:00:00 GMT

Posted by: chantaldormand

I promised, I deliver.

Ch1 The Worst Birthday

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Chamber of Conspiracy Theories

Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:22:00 GMT

Posted by: sunnyskywalker

I swear, I don't go looking for conspiracies in these books, or dastardly plots concocted by Dumbledore. And I'm sure that some of them have the Doylist explanation that Rowling didn't realize some of the problems that failing to keep track of who knows what when causes. But looking at things Watsonianly, a lot of things just don't add up without something extremely dodgy going down in the background.

Case in point: basically everything in Chamber of Secrets. I know we've talked about how what Dobby knows about the "dangerous plot," how he knows it, what Lucius Malfoy knows and intends, and basically everything else connected to the Diary deployment and Dobby trying to keep Harry out of Hogwarts gets harder to explain the more you examine it, so I'll pass over that particular subplot. There's still plenty to keep me busy.
( Dodgy theories ahoy! )

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Draco's Polyjuiced Friends

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 17:57:00 GMT

Posted by: terri-testing.livejournal.com

In CoS, Harry and Ron, in the throes of transforming from Polyjuice back to their natural forms, fled from the Slytherin common room in the innocent belief that they’d succeeded in deceiving all the Slytherins.

A long time back, I wrote positing that they had not. That Draco had clued in somewhere along the way to the fact that his two supposed friends were really Polyjuiced imposters, and that Draco in this scene had been stringing them along, deliberately deceiving them, feeding them misinformation

But now I’ve decided I was still not giving Draco enough credit.

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( ”Really” )

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New COS Content on Pottermore

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:18:00 GMT

Posted by: dracasadiablo.livejournal.com

( The Polyjuice Potion )

( JKR about The Polyjuice Potion )

( Ghost )

( Chamber of Secrets )

( The sword of Gryffindor )

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Pottermore: Exclusive Content for the Chamber of Secrets

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:50:00 GMT

Posted by: dracasadiablo.livejournal.com

Just unlocked all new Chamber of Secrets "Exclusive Content".

( Pure-blood )

( Peeves the Poltergeist )

( Ghost )

( Draco Malfoy )

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