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cleo
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PostPosted: March 24, 2008 9:52 pm    Post subject: What happened to Lily's friend, Mary MacDonald? Reply with quote

Is there anybody knows?
It seems like she was dead. She never visited Harry. I wonder why.
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PostPosted: March 24, 2008 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It never actually says that her and Mary were friends.
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PostPosted: March 25, 2008 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Refresh my memory, who is Mary?
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PostPosted: March 25, 2008 1:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Potions Master wrote:
Refresh my memory, who is Mary?


In Deathy Hallows. While Harry was in Snape's memories, she was a girl they went to school with. Lily mentions her twice in his memories, once when she tells of how Mulciber used Dark Magic on her, and again to let Lily know that Snape was outside the common room and threatening to sleep there.
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PostPosted: March 25, 2008 5:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GinnyX wrote:
The Potions Master wrote:
Refresh my memory, who is Mary?


In Deathy Hallows. While Harry was in Snape's memories, she was a girl they went to school with. Lily mentions her twice in his memories, once when she tells of how Mulciber used Dark Magic on her, and again to let Lily know that Snape was outside the common room and threatening to sleep there.


That could make her a person Lily LIKES but does not actually call a FREIND, more like an associate
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PostPosted: March 25, 2008 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

vandermorph wrote:
GinnyX wrote:
The Potions Master wrote:
Refresh my memory, who is Mary?


In Deathy Hallows. While Harry was in Snape's memories, she was a girl they went to school with. Lily mentions her twice in his memories, once when she tells of how Mulciber used Dark Magic on her, and again to let Lily know that Snape was outside the common room and threatening to sleep there.


That could make her a person Lily LIKES but does not actually call a FREIND, more like an associate


Agreed. Never once does Lily refer to Mary as her friend. In fact, Lily uses Mary's full name the first time mentioning her to Snape. If she was friends with Mary and friends with Snape, I hardly think a full name would be required, since you would think Snape would know Lily's friends. Especially since she knew who his new friends were.
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PostPosted: March 26, 2008 12:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Isn't it a bit derailed here!!!!

I just want to know
1. what happened to Mary.
2. what happened to Lily's friends. She did have friends, didn't she?

If my best friend and her husband are dead and leaving a baby orphan, I would visit him as often as I can, or even adopt him if I or my family are capble of bringing him up.
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PostPosted: March 26, 2008 1:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cleo wrote:
Isn't it a bit derailed here!!!!

I just want to know
1. what happened to Mary.
2. what happened to Lily's friends. She did have friends, didn't she?

If my best friend and her husband are dead and leaving a baby orphan, I would visit him as often as I can, or even adopt him if I or my family are capble of bringing him up.



As far as we know Mary wasn't her friend, she is a secondary character used as a plot device.

James and Lily died after high school, so chances are they probably lost contact with some of their friends before their death, if not most. When they went into hiding they probably lost contact with even more of their friends. The war could have taken their toll on others.
After they were killed, Lupin didn't come looking for Harry, either. That was because Harry was sent to live with the Dursleys and the Dursleys didn't want to have anything to do with the wizarding world. They certainly wouldn't have entertained any of his parent's old friends. The Dursleys didn't even want Harry to know the wizarding world existed.
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PostPosted: March 26, 2008 6:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

vandermorph wrote:
GinnyX wrote:
The Potions Master wrote:
Refresh my memory, who is Mary?


In Deathy Hallows. While Harry was in Snape's memories, she was a girl they went to school with. Lily mentions her twice in his memories, once when she tells of how Mulciber used Dark Magic on her, and again to let Lily know that Snape was outside the common room and threatening to sleep there.


That could make her a person Lily LIKES but does not actually call a FREIND, more like an associate


yeah they could've easily been merely friendly roommates
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PostPosted: March 26, 2008 11:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just think maybe most of Lily's friends were muggleborn. If they didn't get killed, they went hiding, flew all their way to Scotland, or Ireland or France, or even Australia.
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PostPosted: March 27, 2008 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bery26 wrote:
vandermorph wrote:
GinnyX wrote:
The Potions Master wrote:
Refresh my memory, who is Mary?


In Deathy Hallows. While Harry was in Snape's memories, she was a girl they went to school with. Lily mentions her twice in his memories, once when she tells of how Mulciber used Dark Magic on her, and again to let Lily know that Snape was outside the common room and threatening to sleep there.


That could make her a person Lily LIKES but does not actually call a FREIND, more like an associate


yeah they could've easily been merely friendly roommates


That is true you can like someone but not actually be thier friend
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PostPosted: March 28, 2008 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I heard Rowling used Mary McDonald's name after a child who died of a disease and loved Harry Potter, saw it on another thread...
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PostPosted: March 28, 2008 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Puking Pastilles wrote:
I heard Rowling used Mary McDonald's name after a child who died of a disease and loved Harry Potter, saw it on another thread...


You're thinking of Natalie McDonald.

And it might have been this forum you read it in, it's been discussed here a few times, here is the most recent thread on it...
http://www.potterforums.com/about14985.html
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PostPosted: April 14, 2008 2:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

marry mcdonald got killed by snape. Shocked
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PostPosted: April 14, 2008 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CrAzYhArRyPoTtErNeRd62442 wrote:
marry mcdonald got killed by snape. Shocked


Hmm? Confused
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PostPosted: April 14, 2008 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GinnyX wrote:
CrAzYhArRyPoTtErNeRd62442 wrote:
marry mcdonald got killed by snape. Shocked


Hmm? Confused


it makes sense..when snape and his friends became death eaters they probably went after mary first.
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PostPosted: April 15, 2008 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CrAzYhArRyPoTtErNeRd62442 wrote:
GinnyX wrote:
CrAzYhArRyPoTtErNeRd62442 wrote:
marry mcdonald got killed by snape. Shocked


Hmm? Confused


it makes sense..when snape and his friends became death eaters they probably went after mary first.


Why would they go after her, first? She did Snape a favor by going and getting Lily for him.
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PostPosted: April 16, 2008 5:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GinnyX wrote:
CrAzYhArRyPoTtErNeRd62442 wrote:
GinnyX wrote:
CrAzYhArRyPoTtErNeRd62442 wrote:
marry mcdonald got killed by snape. Shocked


Hmm? Confused


it makes sense..when snape and his friends became death eaters they probably went after mary first.


Why would they go after her, first? She did Snape a favor by going and getting Lily for him.


but he was evil so would he care?? hmm i can imagine the whole death

snape: DIE YOU BITCH!!!
mary: wait wait i did you a favour!
snape: psshhh favour my ass
mary: but-
snape: ADVADA KEDAVRA!
mary: --dead--
snape: heyy you remind me of that girl who did me a favour once....
voice in the background: ITS THE SAME GIRL!
snape: oh shit...
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PostPosted: April 16, 2008 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CrAzYhArRyPoTtErNeRd62442 wrote:
GinnyX wrote:
CrAzYhArRyPoTtErNeRd62442 wrote:
GinnyX wrote:
CrAzYhArRyPoTtErNeRd62442 wrote:
marry mcdonald got killed by snape. Shocked


Hmm? Confused


it makes sense..when snape and his friends became death eaters they probably went after mary first.


Why would they go after her, first? She did Snape a favor by going and getting Lily for him.


but he was evil so would he care?? hmm i can imagine the whole death

snape: DIE YOU BITCH!!!
mary: wait wait i did you a favour!
snape: psshhh favour my ass
mary: but-
snape: ADVADA KEDAVRA!
mary: --dead--
snape: heyy you remind me of that girl who did me a favour once....
voice in the background: ITS THE SAME GIRL!
snape: oh shit...


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PostPosted: April 18, 2008 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

they might have known each other without being that close and just lost track of each other once they left hogwarts
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PostPosted: April 19, 2008 11:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hermione22 wrote:
they might have known each other without being that close and just lost track of each other once they left hogwarts


Agree. That seems to be a good explanation.
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