How long did Hermione spend petrified in book 2?
In book 3, Hermione used a time-turner for her extra classes. Assuming she also used it to get enough sleep, how much extra time did she fit into her third year?
2 pages since I asked this question, and I haven't recieved a reply, so I'm reposting it here.

 

I recall her being petrified for several weeks, but only using the Time-Turner for several hours a few days a week so she could take some extra lessons here and there. She certainly "lost" more time through petrification than she gained by using the Time-Turner.

 

The HPLexicon puts Hermione and Penelope getting petrified on May 8th, restored May 29th; 3 weeks, almost to the hour.

I'd say Hermione picked up more with the Time Turner than she lost by Petrifaction, seeing as there were times when she was attending three classes at once, while also helping Hagrid do research for Buckbeak's legal defense. This, however, is where a wide range of conjecture is possible.

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Had to revise my earlier statement- Neville's Gran mentions that both Frank and Alice were Aurors and highly gifted. Just found this during a re-read of Order of the Phoenix.

 

Hermione was doing 3 more classes than is considered normal.

If each class is about and hour, 4 times a day you get, 3x4=12 hours a week extra. Now we are assuming she doesnt abuse it and use it for more sleep or more homework time, but it wouldnt surprise me if she did add a little bit so assume between 12 and maybe 15.

School weeeks are roughly 40 give or take a couple (all schools are different but that seems average).

40 weeks times (12 ro 15 hours a week) = 440-600 hours, or around 18-25 days. Almost exactly the same as she was petrified for.

Now I didnt suptract time for when she was petrified and obviously now time traveling, but that would about to at most 40 hours, and we migth assume she cheated a bit to get the time back.

 

It was said in canon that a wizard/witch in their Animagus form is immune to Lycanthropy. Would that also be true in their human-form? In some lore, Werewolves are labelled under Shapeshifter and other types of Shapeshifter creatures are immune to the bite. So since Animagi(?) are basically a type of Shapeshifter aswell could that apply?

Also, a question for Taure. The magic user graph you linked to in the previous page, how would the Horcrux in Harry's head effect him in contrast with that table. I'd be interested in your thoughts on that - what with the whole 'Mark him as his equal' buisness.

 

I too would like to know Taure's thoughts on this, but I don't think the Horcrux would affect it in any major way. In my head, Voldemort marked harry as his equal by unintentionally making them both the only two survivors of the killing curse, since Voldemort himself was hit by the rebounded curse that night. The Horcrux was more a byproduct of the instability of his soul rather than something to mark Harry as his equal.

 

There wasn't a clear answer in canon, but it appears that Animagi would still be at risk in human form given that Dumbledore said James risked his life to save Snape from Lupin. So Animagi are only immune because they transform into animals, and werewolves aren't interested in animals. Canon suggests that werewolves are drawn to bite humans in order to turn them. Chapter 18 of PoA:

Also, I don't know what you mean by other shape-shifters. The only other shape-shifters in canon are Tonks, a Metamorphmagus, and boggarts. This thread is for canon, not speculation of other folk lore. Make a different thread if you want a discussion on it.

You should probably PM Taure and make a different thread. Again, this thread is for questions about canon only, and any headcanon for horcruxes would fall under speculation, which is against the rules for this thread. Follow this link to the first page of this thread for clarification of the rules.

 

What does "Indy!Harry" mean? I did a quick google search, but no definition of this particular abbreviation came up. Anyone care to explain?

 

Independent Harry. Simply put, a story where Harry acts with independents relative to canon authority figures - going his own path, making his own decisions, coming to his own conclusions etc. It is associated strongly with the glut of post-OOTP fics, where Harry realises all his old allies are evil and secretly trying to control him.

As others have commented in the past, Indy!Harry fics would be a lot better if the Indy stood for Indiana Jones.

 

The first time I actually came across the term, I thought it actually did. And fittingly, the next story I read was Bungle in the Jungle. That story is the shit. Proper Indy! Harry.

 

My bad. Sorry about derailing the thread.

While on the subject of the HP werewolves though, do they come with any abilities that make up for the curse like enhanced strength or anything like that? Or is it just that, a curse with no advantages?

 

Nope. Other than feeling rather weak and tired during the week before the full moon, nothing about it affects them. No enhanced hearing or smell, no super strength, no Occlumency skills granted (I don't know how that one became sort of fanon).

Remember, it's basically a curse. Curses aren't exactly known to be beneficial.

 

A person bitten by an untransformed werewolf will gain lupine tendencies, such as a fondness for rare meat. There is no indication in canon that true werewolves receive any such tendencies, although canon does not directly contradict it. They do not seem to gain any helpful powers or abilities while untransformed.

 

Wizard need to know how the thing works, to repair it.

Is there anything in canon that proves or disprove this?

 

There's no evidence one way or the other, but magic in general doesn't seem to require specific knowledge like that so I'd err on the side of not needing it.

 

Not conclusively. However, it's unlikely that 14-year-old Hermione has an understanding of optics sufficient to make a pair of glasses, and yet she repairs glasses, so it would seem you don't need to understand a thing to be able to repair it.

Further, if we look at magic more broadly, it seems to be a recurring feature that you don't need to know how the non-magical world works in order to use magic that affects it e.g. wizards are able to transfigure things into animals, but they clearly do not (and cannot) know everything there is to know about said animals. Similarly, if you asked Hogwarts students about fire I doubt they'd be able to tell you much about the way modern physics describes it, yet they're still able to make fire and modify its properties.

 

I just remembered, Dumbledore cast's a mending charm in HBP. I know he is Dumbledore, but even he can't have known how everything works in a modern muggle home.

ps. By the way, I had this question after reading 'wand and shield'.

 

Was he using the Elder Wand back then?

 

I guess, since that's the only wand he uses in whole canon.