Is Voldemort a virgin?

[OhShutUpThomas]

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!

[OhShutUpThomas]

This always annoys me with the Very Hungry Camping trip - when they get something good, why don't they just keep replicating it? Why wouldn't they just take a couple of tins and keep multiplying them?

Goodness yes.
I always skim read the Very Hungry Camping Trip as its so bloody tedious and unnecessary b

[BeccaMumsnet]

Hi all - we're going to pop this one over to Mumsnet Classics because it's bloomin' brilliant.

[OhShutUpThomas]

Thanks Becca - glad you're enjoying it!

What's your opinion on the Dark Lord's knob then?

[OhShutUpThomas]

.....smooth Action Man or virile man of action?

[BoyFromTheBigBadCity]

Maybe voldy gets house elves to, err, service him?

[Schenker123]

Why didn't Voldy ever mention spreading his genetics? Did he not want to or was he incapable after he went to the dark side completely?

I love HP but I have always thought JK should've included Voldy having an obsessive desire to have a son or something. It's what first springs to mind when I think of a powerful person - what their offspring are like.

Surely he would want an heir?

[00100001]

No that would make him weak, surely?
He thought he was going to live forever, so why would he want an heir?

[Tfoot75]

Harry was a tit for naming his second son Albus Severus. Especially when he explicitly describes Hagrid as the bravest man he's ever known at least once.

I sort of thought it said a lot about Harry's maturity that he had actually managed to forgive Snape, and recognise how brave he had been. It was an easy way of giving closure to their hatred of one another and a massive statement about Harry's character in the epilogue (for me, anyway).

The poster that mentioned a round of applause in the cinema after the final film - I think this did happen when I saw it on opening night, and the only other time I recall is LOTR Return of the King, again on opening night. I found it quite emotional actually that people thought something was so good they will stand up and applaud an inanimate screen! As a cinematic experience it was pretty amazing in IMAX 3D, particularly the battle of hogwarts, even if the screenplay is somewhat shoddy compared to the book with plot holes the size of Australia.

[FrancisdeSales]

Sex means bringing new life into the world so much too hopeful and uncontrollable for Voldy. Powerful new creation is about bringing and giving life and in serious danger of eliciting emotions such as tenderness, compassion, empathy and self-sacrifice all necessary to raise up a functioning new generation.

[Schenker123]

I thought Voldy would have wanted an heir because a son would have been the only thing to come close to being second to him himself.

I also thought he'd want an extra pair of hands to do his work, and by having sons and Grandsons, he'd have generations of power to add to his excellence.

[FrancisdeSales]

How would he be capable of sharing power though?

Wouldn't he be the ultimate toxic and abusive dad? With a personality disorder to end all PDs?

[OohMavis]

When I was re-reading Chamber of Secrets the other month, it occurred to me that when Harry got stabbed with the basilisk fang, it should have been a much bigger deal than it was. Where was the swirly black shit? Why didn't the Horcrux within him die?

[LottieDoubtie]

mavis bloody good point I'd never thought of! The horcrux should have died then shouldn't it? Can anyone explain why it didn't? --dont tell me it isn't real...'

[00100001]

Harry didn't die so the horcrux wasn't destroyed

[LottieDoubtie]

Ah, is it only on the point of death then? I guess so if the objects had to be broken 'beyond repair'.

But if Fawkes hadn't saved Harry then Voldemort would have been closer to mortal when he returned... muses for the greater good...

[DrSeussRevived]

"The horcrux should have died then shouldn't it? Can anyone explain why it didn't? "

Because JKR hadn't decided Harry was a horcrux at that point...?

[OhShutUpThomas]

OohMavis my jaw just totally dropped!

BUT I think it would only have been destroyed if Harry died.

But I'm still hazy on the whole ending. Why did the bit of soul in Harry go? And that whole Elder Wand thing was a bridge too far by the end for me.

[DrSeussRevived]

The bit of soul was represented by the whimpering baby under the bench at King's Cross. If Harry had caught a train ie chosen to die, the baby would have "lived"

[BoyFromTheBigBadCity]

The horcrux in harry didn't die when the basilisk bit him because he was not destroyed beyond repair - the only antidote is phoenix tears and fawkes was there in time.

[MPP81]

Fab fab fab thread! I've always wondered about Hagrids parents too!

My HP anecdote is that I was over 8 months pregnant when OOTP came out, and I stood in line for the midnight launch and all the kind and lovely people let me go to the front of the queue. Then my DC arrived two weeks late and was born on 31st July. Her dad swears I 'held her in' on purpose if I could have, I would have :)

[OrianaBanana]

I think if Harry had 'gone on' that bit of soul would have died but Voldemort would still be alive and still had Nagini.