[HPforGrownups] Secrets (Long)

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 1002



Kathleen Kelly MacMillan wrote:

>
> Oh, Peg, that was beautiful.  I am glad you chose to wrote this because I have
> been thinking a lot about secrets in HP since the first time I read PoA.
> There is a huge relationship between this and your previous post on loyalty, I
> think.  Not only with Pettigrew betraying Lily and James, but I can think of
> several examples involving Hermione as well.  <snip>

> Another, small example: when Ginny refuses to tell Ron who Hermione is going
> to the Yule Ball with: "I'm not telling you; it's her business."  And another
> example, maybe a stretch, is that both Harry and Hermione clearly realize that
> Ron has feelings for Hermione, but sort of allow him to keep his secret until
> he's ready to tell it.

Yes, more good examples.

> Also, does anyone else have the feeling that Hermione knows, or at least
> suspects, about Neville's parents?

Yes, I have the very strong impression she knows something up with Neville and is
keeping an eye on him, just as she figured out something was going on with Lupin.
It's a testimony to her powers of observation.

> Another thought: what do you make of the fact that Hagrid, though on Our Team,
> doesn't seema as capable of keeping secrets?  Remember, he was the one who
> spilled the beans about Fluffy in PS/SS.  Do you think that will be important
> later too?

Now that hadn't occurred to me, but you're right; good point.  Hagrid has . . .
how to say this . . . sort of a problem with proportion.  He doesn't always read
social cues correctly.  That is why Dumbledore will trust him to some extent (I'm
pretty sure he's being sent as an emissary to the Giants, with Madame Maxine) but
he's not one of the inner core who Dumbledore trusted enought to learn in the
hospital wing about Sirius' true identity at the end of GoF.