Totally agree that the receptacle for a horcrux has to be meaningful and significant to the soul in order to house a piece of it. One of a billion grains of sand isn't going to pass muster.

Also, I'm still of the belief that the detached soul tends to get drawn back to the last-made horcrux if the original body has become unusable, so tossing it into a deep trench or into the emptiness of space would be counter-productive. I don't think a wandering soul has much ability to interact with the world unless it uses some other body as an interface, so in terms of finding nearby bodies to possess, those remote or random hiding spaces would be more trouble than safe.

Riddle's soul was found by Quirrel and by Wormtail in Albania because of a suspicious lack of wildlife near it. Wormtail's rodent buddies essentially said 'something in that hole eats critters in a scary way, so keep away, dude'.

 

During every fic that involves Fudge. There is a sentence from Fudge that says something along the lines of "That would end my career." is this real or a dig at canon Fudge?

 

There's canon precedent from the end of GoF:

 

Apologies if this has already been asked but I already looked through most of this thread.

Okay, so if floo travel is described as

"It felt as though he was being sucked down a giant plug hole. He seemed to be spinning very fast ... the roaring in his ears was deafening ... he tried to keep his eyes open but the whirl of green flames made him feel sick ... Something hard knocked his elbow and he tucked it in tightly, still spinning and spinning ... now it felt as though cold hands were slapping his face ... squinting through his glasses he saw a blurred stream of fireplaces and snatched glimpses of the rooms beyond ... his bacon sandwiches were churning inside him ... He closed his eyes again wishing it would stop, and then - he fell, face forward, onto cold stone and felt his glasses shatter." (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, At Flourish and Blotts, 41-2)

Ignoring the inconsistent capitalisation after way too may ellipses.

Then how to people just stick their heads in for the telephone version that suddenly appears in the Goblet of Fire? How does the floo know to project an image as opposed to transporting only the head into the fire? Because I can only imagine the ramifications on the body if only the head was floo transported to another fireplace... So basically my question is dafuq JKR? And DLP guys, explain to me how you guys have reconciled this problem in your minds, because I haven't been able to satisfactorily in mine.

 

What makes you think it's just projecting an image? I always assumed it was literally transporting just your head.

 

Where did Hagrid got Fluffy, he seems to be a new species of magical animal.

 

"Yeah — he's mine — bought him off a Greek chappie I met in the pub las'
year."

Quoted from the Philosopher's Stone

 

Hagrid got Fluffy from a Greek chappie. Not sure why you've got the impression that it's a new species of animal, especially given how much Rowling has borrowed from Greek mythology and how the Cerberus/Hellhound is a well-known thing from it.


Edit: Damn Ninjas beating me by a few seconds.

 

Because he dosn't appear in the book fantastic creatures

 

Is there anything in canon that mentions the effects of a potion being permanent beyond poisons? Draught of Living Death is as far as I know only mentioned as “powerful” by Snape in Harry’s first class with the man.

 

Skelegrow isn't temporary in results, though the hastened bone growth is temporary. Same applies to Blood Replenisher, though Arthur Weasley had to take a new dose every hour while they were fighting Nagini's venom at St. Mungo's. Hermione's cat form caused by mis-using Polyjuice Potion was not likely to wear off- they had to subject her to weeks of various treatments in order to restore her humanity.

 

As for Hermione, that's a misuse of potions (the potion was intended to change into another human, only). I think the question was more along the lines of "Does proper potion use create permanent change." As with most things, misusing something bad enough can have lasting bad implications.

 

Could the Disarming Charm be countered? The lexicon mentions that curses, hexes, and jinxes are classified of Dark Charms.
We can reasonably extrapolate that counter-curses can be employed while a curse is in the process of being used (Snape countering Quirrell’s jinx on Harry’s broom). Additionally, we know for sure that they can be used to reverse a curse’s effect (Snape undoing the damage of Sectumsempra). With this in mind, anti-jinx or counter-jinx would be another term to describe counter-curse. So Expelliarmus could feasibly be rendered useless yes?

 

It's not quite the disarming charm, but Harry and others have managed to protect against summoning. Harry did it with a standard protego and I believe others have blocked his disarming charm before, though I can't recall where.

 

It also implies that a potion could have permanent effects, say if someone wanted to turn half feline.

 

Why would you want to be half feline? Unless the were going to join the DC universe.

 

I'd imagine the furry scene in the HP universe is pretty wild.