More Thoughts on Chapter Summaries

[Cindy C.]

Hi, all,

Following on to Eileen's question about Chapter summaries, I decided 
to go have a look at one.  Maybe we should talk a bit about how we 
handle them so that we don't make extra work for ourselves.  

Below is a chapter summary (Message 19710) written by Amy Z (man, I 
just love Paul's Magical Spreadsheet -- it makes it so easy to find 
things now).  I have snipped it down, and I have comments at the 
bottom:

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Chapter 10 The Marauder's Map

Chapter 10 opens with Harry spending the rest of the weekend in the 
hospital 
wing, recuperating from his fall. He has lots of visitors, but 
doesn't tell 
anyone about seeing the Grim a second time or what he heard when the 
Dementors were on the pitch, which, he now realizes, were his 
mother's dying 
moments.

After the next DADA class, Lupin tells him he's sorry about the loss 
(of the 
game and his broom) and Harry finally asks why he's the only person 
affected 
so strongly by the Dementors. "Because you have horrors in your past 
the 
others don't have," Lupin says, explaining that Dementors suck out 
happy 
feelings and leave their victims with only their worst memories; 
Harry tells 
him what they make him hear. As they talk about Azkaban and Black's 
escape, 
Harry recalls that Lupin had some way of repelling the Dementor on 
the train 
and asks him to teach it to him, and Lupin agrees to begin after 
Christmas.

<big snip>

Questions:

1. It occurs to Harry that the Marauder's Map may be a Dark object; 
it puts 
him in mind of Mr. Weasley's dictum about mysterious magical 
objects, and he 
hesitates to use it, but overcomes his doubts "quite suddenly, as 
though 
following orders." What do you make of the pull the Map seems to 
have on 
him?

2. If you could buy one treat at Honeydukes, what would it be?

3. What do you think--=does= Sirius get into Hogwarts by the secret 
passages? If not, how?

<snip more questions>

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I'm starting to think that we don't want to use lots of key words 
for the Chapter Summary itself.  I think maybe we want to use key 
words for the various replies because they do discuss canon, but 
would it be sufficient in the above example simply to catalogue 
Amy's post as "Chapter" and "PoA 10"?

Cindy