[HPforGrownups] long Re: Chapter 22 - The Unexpected Task

[Michelle Apostolides]

No: HPFGUIDX 6529

 It is possible to lie  when using the excuse that you are already going
with someone else...  Harry didn't even bother to use the polite lie.

Just two things that sprung to mind when reading this - don't forget
that
" dating " in my experience doesn't tend to happen until you are about
15 or 16 in the UK. Ands the other thing to remember is that by
Christmas, Harry had already been up on a pedestal for quite some time.
In the first three books, the danger and mystery is only vague by the
Christmas sequences - he doesn't know much about it and is relatively
safe. And then he has to deal with girls ? All too much for him.
Remember that he has no older man that he can easily turn to, becuase he
can't really owl Sirius about trivial things.

By this point in GOF, he's seen some of what a death eater is and he
knows someone has managed to get him into a dangerous inter school
competition which he doesn't have the knowledge to fight.

As for Girls asking Harry, they might just have decided that if he's too
shy to ask, they aren't going to lose the chance of being on the arm of
the school's most eligible bachelor ( one of them anyway - I prefer Fred
or George Weasley ) just by dint of not opening their mouths.
>
> > while it is known that the Weird
> > Sisters will be providing the music for the evening.
>
> I wish JKR had told us the number, gender and species of the Weird
> Sisters.
Yes, that bothered me too.

> > Fred decides to quickly rectify the situation by asking Angelina,
> > who is sitting in another corner of the room.
>
> By shouting across the room to her. This makes it obvious that he is
> not afraid that anyone would hear her reject him. Which shows that he
> is confident either of all Gryffindors' esteem of him, or that AngieJ
> will accept.
I just think that he's sure of himself - both twins are.

Anyway, that just about wraps up my thoughts on this chapter. Look
forward to reading more.

Michelle