Is Voldemort a virgin?

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And any other Harry Potter mysteries!

Can anyone answer mine?
Is Voldemort a virgin?
What happened to Rodolphus Lestrange?
Why do some spells take weeks and hours of homework to learn, yet Harry can imperious people by just saying it?

Anyone else? I've got more, can't think just now. Just finished re-reading!

Harry only had certain powers because Voldemort transformed them to Harry by accident (and as I understand it, this was the part that was a horcrux so can he still do it?) So I wouldn't have thought he could pass it on to his children.

What's to get about Diagon Alley? Or Knockturn Alley??

It took me a long long time to get Grimmauld Place. And it's not subtle.

Diagon Alley - diagonally. It runs 'diagonally' to the Muggle street.

Knockturn Alley - nocturnally. Darkness.

Grimmauld Place - grim old place.

So many puns in her writing!

Ahh. The only one I hadn't got then was Knockturn alley - I hadn't realised why about Diagon Alley though!

I also suspect - though I have no proof at all for this - that she used "alley" for both names as a play on the traditional belief of magical ley lines.

The Very Hungry Camping Trip (great name) is Harry Potter's equivalent of the Long Hungry Walk in Lord of the Rings.

(po-tay-toes... boil em mash em stick em in a stew)

Considering that everyone seems to get married really young in the wizarding world, why are there such a lot of kids at Hogwarts who are only children? Off the top of my head: Harry, Neville, Draco, Hermione, Cedric, Luna. In fact there are very few whose siblings are mentioned.

Because, with the best will in the world, it's hard keeping track of siblings as a writer - giving them enough character each and so on.

Seven Weasleys, two Patel twins and everyone else an only child, though

The Creevy brothers. Um, struggling now!

Sirius and Regulus
Narcissa and Bellatrix and Mrs Tonks
Muggle borns may have muggle siblings like Lily

Plenty we don't know either way eg Lavender, Cho.

I can't believe I missed the other (than Diagon Alley) puns

Also, Neville's parents were tortured, so couldn't have another child. Luna's mum died, so no siblings.
It makes sense for Hermione to be an only child, as well as Draco.

Also, Harry is pretty ignorant of people, even in his year group. So, for all we kniwbthere could be plenty if siblings.

Going back to how children were taught whilst of primary school age, isn't it the case that house elves etc carry put such learning to them, and if your household isn't wealthy enough for house elves, you're taught by your Mother?

I doubt the children would have been taught by their Father's, HP world is very old fashioned in that sense.

I think we need a web chat with JKR so these pertinent questions may be asked and, hopefully, answered.

Schenker i like that theory, howver, I do think that as the youngsters grow up they would see how parents treat the house elves as inferiors. Therefore, by time the time the child would be primary school age, they would probably not listen to the house elf.

Plus that also begs the question, who taught the house elf how to read and write? Is there such a thing as house elf finishing school?

Im thinking the Malfoys in particular here btw. Cant see Draco willingly taking lessons from Dobby....

I think JK could spend the rest of her life answering HP questions!

JK said wizard children are educated at home.

Kai: "Where do wizarding children go to school before Hogwarts?"

JK Rowling: "They can either go to a Muggle primary school or they are educated at home. The Weasleys were taught by Mrs. Weasley."
And so were most of the children from wizarding families.

Q. What education do the children of wizards have before going to Hogwarts?

A. They are, as many of you have guessed, most often home educated. With very young children, as you glimpsed at the wizards' camp before the Quidditch World Cup in 'Goblet of Fire', there is the constant danger that they will use magic, whether inadvertently or deliberately; they cannot be trusted to keep their true abilities hidden. Even Muggle-borns like Harry attract a certain amount of unwelcome attention at Muggle schools by re-growing their hair overnight and so on.

IVE REMEMBERED.

In the Hall of Prophecy, only those the prophecy is about can get it from the shelf. The whole book is kind of centred around this idea.
HOWEVER when they are all fighting, they manage to knock loooaaads of prophecies off the shelves and hear them.

If I was JKR, I'd answer all questions with, "you know what? It's a series of children's books. I thought enough about the universe to make it real for the readers: THE END. Muggles, harumph."

Fleur had a sister too. I always wondered why they went to get Fleur's sister but used Hermione for Krum, not his mum or somebody. They'd only met in October!

01001 doesn't JK contradict herself there in her two answers to two seperate questions?

I'd like to know if the wizarding world takes regular baths.. It isn't really mentioned in the books, apart from the Goblet of Fire.

I don't think Hagrid baths, do you? he certainly didn't have access to one in his home, anyway.

Baths are mentioned in other books. Ginny and someone else comes in from quidditch practice and say they are off fror a bath.

and Harry collapses by the bath in Grimmauld Place in Deathly Hallows

And they thought Ron was trying to drown himself in the showers after Quidditch once.

According to Pottermore, wizard plumbing followed human - before that they just used to go and vanish the evidence! A spell to quickly sort your hair (freshly washed and blown) would be great!

Not Ron sorry, Wood.