Ideas for Class

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "losangelis" <losangelis at y...> wrote:

> Comparisons of the Old Four (Lupin, Black, Potter, and Pettigrew) to 
> the New Four (Granger, Weasley, Potter, and Longbottom)

This is an unhelpful nitpick. It is not certain that the New Four are 
Granger, Weasley, Potter, and Longbottom. The Three are certain, but 
you might start by discussing whether the fourth is Longbottom or 
Ginny Weasley or Colin Creevey or someone else. You could start with 
discussing Who is the New Fourth. The Three is already unlike the 
Four in that one of the Three is a girl while the Four were all boys, 
so there is room for imaging that the New Fourth could differ from 
the Old Fourth by being in a different year (or a different House, 
but I can't pick a plausible candidate from another House).

In fact, you might want to start a step further back, with discussion 
of the Three is really going to turn into a Four. Just how powerful 
in the tendency of wizard's lives to fall into inherited patterns? In 
an epic whose narrator preaches that 'it is our choices which make us 
what we are', surely characters must have *some* abiility to choose 
NOT to follow the pattern. 

On the other hand, when names fit character so closely, how could any 
Malfoy choose to be good?