Answers to Readers' Questions 14/04/21
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1. Is Blaise's last name Zabini or Zabini?
Zabini is the official translation by the People's Daily; the author remains the same.
2. Regarding the setting of the Time-Turner overdrawing life.
Rowling clearly stated in Pottermore that the only limitation of the Time-Turner is that it cannot rewind more than 5 hours. The so-called "overdraft of life" is a fan fiction setting, so please stop using fan fiction as a basis for argument. If the 5-hour rule is followed when rewinding, there are no official settings or side effects, which is indisputable.
Even if it really does drain your life force, Skylar started using it at age 4, for 4 hours at a time, and not every day (he used weekends to correspond with pen pals), and continued until he was 9 years old.
6 years x 52 weeks x 5 days a week x 4 hours a day = 6240 hours, or 260 days. That's roughly 9 months older than others, less than a year. The author really doesn't understand what's so annoying about that.
3. Why didn't the protagonist borrow a secondhand wand to learn magic before getting his own, instead of waiting until he was 11? And why did he wait until he started school to learn Occlumency?
This question is quite technical, and it's clear that the reader has given it thought.
Although not mentioned in the original work, it doesn't prevent us from deducing the cause from the result. In the class of 1991, Hermione, a Muggle student, ranked first in Charms, crushing a large number of Pure-blood -Pure-blood wizard, including the Pure-blood Ravenclaw and the diligent Hufflepuff. This actually says a lot. Why didn't these Pure-blood wizard take advantage of their birth to study in advance before starting school? Laziness cannot be applied to Hufflepuff, and dullness cannot be applied to Ravenclaw.
The author believes the most reasonable explanation is that learning magic and casting magic are not the same thing. Using someone else's wand to cast a spell you've already mastered might just feel awkward, but using someone else's Wandlore a new spell, if things go wrong, could very well lead to a catastrophe.
As for Occlumency, it's a spell that requires suppressing and inhibiting emotions. Before the age of 11, the brain's mechanisms for suppressing emotions are still very immature. Only after the protagonist grows up, experiences various joys and sorrows, and understands and experiences emotions can he learn how to suppress and control them. In fact, it's quite remarkable that the protagonist could learn it at 11; even Harry wouldn't have been able to learn it at 15.