Chapter 13 Mad eye moody

[Ben Leigh]

No: HPFGUIDX 3136

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   Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:41:45 -0000
   From: stevekimmel at yahoo.com
Subject: Chapter 13 - Mad Eye Moody

Sorry guys. I thought this was due this week.

Question 1. Why is Harry taking the same courses year after year when 
clearly other students at the same level are taking different 
courses? (Lack of imagination on the part of Miss Rowling?)

HI Steve, I think you may have missed something. If you refer to Chamber of secrets J.K Rowling mentions that the 2nd years were giving lists with new subjects to choose to study as part of their 3rd year Coursework. This may very well explain why other students at the same level are taking different subjects.



First class is Herbology with Professor Sprout where we find our 
intrepid band collecting pus from Bubotubers. The pus is extremely 
valuable in part at least because it makes an excellent remedy for 
Acne. Presumably there are no effective cures for Acne in the Muggle 
world and given a school full of teenagers a good cure for Acne might 
be highly valuable.

Good point after all magic is magic!

The second class is Care of Magical Creatures with Hagrid. This 
year's magical creature of note are the Blast-Ended Skrewts. Blast-
Ended Skrewts are not good for much of anything and as Malfoy puts 
it, "Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting and bit all at 
once?" 

We all know malfoy he loves criticising!

. Finally we get to the real point of the chapter and 
meet the chapter's title character: Mad-Eye Moody, the new Defense 
Against the Dark Arts professor. Moody transforms Draco into a white 
ferret. After inquiring into whether Harry is all right, Moody 
decides that Draco has not been sufficiently punished. Accordingly, 
he decides to see how high a ferret will bounce which turns out to be 
nearly to the ceiling. We also learn that his rolling eye is magical 
and allows him to see out the back of his head.

I loved this part of the book! It was so hilarious! I cried with mirth and still do! Mad eye obviously knew  something about Malfoy's intense dislike for Harry or was it because he simply tried to attack harry when he had his back turned?


Question 2 : Why did we believe Moody is Harry's friend and 
benefactor? 

One of J.K Rowlings clever twists in the plot I guess!

Question 3: Why do we accept Moody's casual cruelty toward a student 
even if it's a slimeball like Malfoy?

cause he is a slimeball! also malfoy broke one of the most important rules  in DADA (Defense against the dark arts)



Question 4: What do we think will happen between Moody and Snape and 
between Moody and Malay?

Moody really hates Malay, Snap and Moody have a run in the egg and the eye chapter another one of my Ave chapters apart from the First Task.

Ben







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