Chapter 10 and that cat

[Simon Branford]

No: HPFGUIDX 1333

"Meanwhile, Harry tells Ron and Hermione about his forehead and dream. They
are worried, and wonder why they haven't received any news from Sirius."

This misses the important point that Harry has learnt a lot about Ron and
Hermione. The predictions he makes of how they would react if he told them
about his scar are proved to be correct.

If only he had applied this understanding later in the book then his fight
with Ron would have been solved very quickly.

"Schrodinger's Cat - Could you explain what this is?"

I could, but brooks got in with an explanation first. I will just say that
it is a stupid area of mathematics and gets even more complicated when you
try to extend the analogy. You can then get a dead cat being brought back to
life and vice versa!

It also misses the Terry Pratchett answer (I cannot remember exactly which
book it is), in which it is pointed out that the cat may just be a little
annoyed at being kept in the box for so long.
Or another possible answer being that the cat would be dead as it ran out of
air a long time ago.

Simon

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