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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 1 decade ago

Harry Potter question..(Deathly Hallows Spoilers)?

I was reading Goblet of Fire again, and came to the part where they were describing the clock in the Weasley home, with a hand of each family member, and it points to where they are.. "Home" "School" "Work" "Traveling" "Lost" "Hospital" "Prison" "Mortal Peril"

this made me wonder.. After Fred dies in Deathly Hallows, where does his hand on the clock move? does the hand perhaps disappear?

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    Good question. It might disappear. But they never mentioned what every place on the clock said, so maybe there is one for death.

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    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I think, since it's magical and all, Fred's hand would disappear from the clock - having his hand there for all that time after his death would be disturbing, if not upsetting, for the Weasleys, wouldn't it?

    Besides, if every dead member of the Weasley family was still on the clock, it would be overcrowded with hands. But, then again, it could have been only the Weasleys we know.

    And I don't think there's a part labeled 'Dead', to be honest - that's just weird and unnecessary.

    For the disappearance of the hand (if it did in fact disappear), I think it would just vanish or quickly fade away: that's what magic can do, after all.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, because the weasleys are all a big family it is possible that the whole family would be up there, and so so the grandparents are dead and there hands are not on the clock then u would think that when the person died there hand disappered. No one knows for sure!! :)

    But anything is possible.. because the author did not answer that question it is urs to answer.. but it would probaly stay in mortil peril!!

    Source(s): I read them all!!
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    ok some of ur stuff are really good guesses, but I have this juicy bit of info for ya. this should not be an answer but a whole question because it is so TRUE! I recently reaserched something and...STATUES WILL BE ERECTED IN MY HONOR!!!!! yes yes. I know a biiiiig thing that will happen in book 7, but I'm kinda scared to give it away. w/e. well, as I was searching for "hallows" I came across this page! any of u who don't want a big part of this book given away stop reading this! well ok I came across this answer... •"holy" or "holy night") the Oct. 31 Greater Sabbat, also called November Eve, the Celtic Samhain ("sow-en"); the beginning of the Celtic winter, and of the Celtic year; the beginning of the Witches' Year, when the Veil Between the Worlds grows thin and the spirits of the dead may return to Earth; the Descent of the Goddess to the Underworld; the final Harvest festival LOOK AT THE PART ABOUT THE VEIL! (the rest is unimportant) I know by titiling the book "hallows" j.k. is going to bring sirius back. here are my reasons: •she lighly hinted she would. on a harry potter site she said she is definitley not bringing dumbledore back, but said she didint know about sirius... •sirius went behind a veil once he died in the 5th book. •she also said that if she told us what hallows meant it would give away too much ofthe story. if u think I made this up, I didn't! check out my rescources.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That's a really interesting question!

    Maybe the "Fred" hand magically disappears or falls off.

    Or maybe it stays on "Lost" or "Mortal Peril" until taken off itself.

    That;s a good question to ask J.K. Rowling if you ever meet her.

  • 1 decade ago

    Hey, I've been wondering that too! I always assumed that there was another option that was "Dead" or the hand fell off when he died. I always pictured Mrs. Weasley keeping the hand in a pocket with her all the time.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think since the clock is magical the hand would disappear because

    the person no longer lives to be in those moments any longer.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Very good question! I don't think anyone can answer it apart from the incredible J.K Rowling herself but I think it properly just disappears because the person is no longer 'living'. :D

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    that is a REALLY good question! i think maybe it just stays in mortil peril until they take the hand out of the clock?

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au0kG...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think it would just go to mortal peril until they take the hand out.

    Mine? (if you read warriors by erin hunter):

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoAXC...

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