Snape's Boggart - Japanese - Muggleborn Gryffs, Draco's marks

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 17433

Magda wrote:

> > Interesting, isn't it, that Snape takes off when Lupin and class
> > show > up in the teachers' lounge to battle the Boggart?  Would
> > he see a Dementor? Or Lord V, like Harry is afraid he will?

"Me too" on the "fascinating question, Magda!"

I thought at my first reading that it was only the natural and polite 
thing to do to excuse himself from the staffroom while a class was 
using it.  Snape, in order to be maximally rude to Lupin and Neville, 
turns this courtesy into nastiness--"I'd rather not witness this, 
etc." where someone like McGonagall would have said, "Oh, that's 
right, you needed the staffroom for your third year class--pardon me." 
 That still seems right, but now you have me thinking what else the 
rudeness might be covering up.

Gaynor, that blurb from the Japanese site made my day.  "Then, the 
baby with the injury which made the form of the lightning to be an 
amount is put with the shave before the house in the one eaves."  
ROFL!

Penny wrote:

>Of course, we're not sure that Hermione is the only muggle-born
>Gryffindor.  Someone has a good theory that Dean Thomas sounds
>muggle-born given his preoccupation with soccer (and seeming lack of
>knowledge about Quidditch).  Someone else though Lavender might also 
be
>muggle-born. 

These are educated guesses based on the character's knowledge of 
wizarding/Muggle life or lack thereof.  My guess is that Dean and 
Lavender are Muggle-born, because they don't know what a Grim is.

                   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 
  "My dear," Professor Trelawney's huge eyes opened dramatically, "you 
have the Grim."
  "The what?" said Harry.
  He could tell that he wasn't the only one who didn't understand; 
Dean Thomas shrugged at him and Lavender Brown looked puzzled, but 
nearly everybody else clapped their hands to their mouths in horror.  
(PA 6)
                   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 

Likewise, I figure Wood has little contact with Muggle life because 
he's never heard of basketball (PS/SS 10).

I wouldn't read much into Dean's passion for soccer, but his ignorance 
of Quidditch would seem to cap it.  (It is possible that he knows 
there's no such thing as a red card in Quidditch, but that he's so 
outraged he yells it anyway [PS/SS 11].)

Anyway, back to what it says about Draco:  I don't think he spends any 
more time with Hermione than other Muggle-borns, based on the above 
evidence that she isn't the only one in his classes, but I do think 
it's likely that he talks about her most--because she's Harry's friend 
and because he =is= ashamed that she's top of the class (or because he 
has a crush on her <g>)--so that might prompt Lucius's comparison.  
And good point, Simon, that it's Draco who brings Hermione up first.

I do think that Lucius's comparing him to Hermione implies that L, at 
least, thinks he has the potential to do that well.  D could be a 
mediocre student whose dad just can't accept that his son isn't that 
bright, or (more likely IMO) he is a pretty good student and very 
bright kid who could possibly be #1 if he worked at it.

Amy Z

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