Whenever exams come along or I have a lot of deadlines I always wish for a time turner (or Bernard’s watch which can stop time for the owner). I could go to the main library and do a couple of hours work, use the time turner and go to the smaller library, use it again and go home and have a nap then work in my room, use it again and work in the college library. I’d have done 8 hours work in just 2 hours. After I’ve caught up with myself I would have another nap and then start the whole thing again. I would ace my exams.

I always picture a ribbon or piece of paper folded, but I can’t show you that on the computer, so I figured a Z would help you visualize it.

Boggarts are such fascinating creatures! I guess Lupin thought ‘facing one’s greatest fears’ is a great way to start his DADA lessons, in light of recent occurrences. This proves that not only is he a capable teacher, but also a caring one, because of the concern he showed in this moment towards his students. Lupin also mentioned that no one knows what a boggart looks like in its real form. Makes me wonder what Moody saw in the rattling drawer in OoTP.

@HentaiTenshi: Does it ever say in the books or in an interview that the Longbottoms were in hiding? I don’t recall that being a detail.

Second- I’m not sure if Peeves actually knew about Lupin being a werewolf, and if he did would he really care? Peeves is all about having fun and making chaos and that would end all too soon if Lupin was outed right then and there. I think, like the others mentioned he was testing Lupin to see what he’d do. I mean, look at the Weasley twins and Percy. They give Percy absolute hell for being a prefect. In fact, at one point, didn’t they say that Percy becoming head boy was “Absolutely shameful” or something like that? Peeves probably remembers the Marauders(sp?) and wants to see what Lupin’s gonna do now since he’s a ‘respectable, rule-abiding, teacher’. Has to set a good example in front of all his students, doesn’t he? Course he gets around that by shooting gum up Peeves’ nose. Nothing too bad, but still a spell a prankster would use imo.

Third- I think, and this is just my theory really, that Snape would know that Neville was ‘ the other Boy-Who-Lived.’ Dumbledore (or somebody else in the book idk) states at one point that both the Potters and the Longbottoms go into hiding. Voldemort is one of those villains that seems to plot and reason things out before he does something (before he lost his sanity anyways.) He chose Harry, but he knew there were others. I’m positive he would have had his minions find all the wizarding children born around that time that matched the conditions for the part of the prophecy he heard. And since the Wizarding community has been shown as a small, connected society, where almost everybody’s related or knows each other in some way it probably wasn’t that hard to figure out.