Chapter 7 Summary and Questions

[Kristin]

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Hi All~

Sorry this is a bit late. Here's the summary for Chapter 7 of CoS. 
Chapter 8 will be coming along shortly. Enjoy! :)

Cheers,

     Kristin "the Queen of Procrastination"



               Chapter 7: Mudbloods and Murmurs

The chapter begins with Harry trying to avoid Lockhart and Colin. 
However it's harder to avoid Colin because he seems to have memorized 
Harry's timetable.  With all things that have happened during the 
week Harry can't wait for the weekend.

Very early Saturday morning Oliver Wood shakes Harry awake for 
Quidditch practice.  Harry drags himself out of bed, writes Ron a 
note, pulls on his Quidditch robes, grabs his broom, and heads 
downstairs. Just as he reaches the Portrait hole Colin accosts him. 
Colin tries to show Harry the picture of him and Lockhart, but Harry 
tells him he's in a hurry- Quidditch practice.  Colin follows Harry 
and begins to bombard him with questions about Quidditch. Resigned 
Harry explains the rules of Quidditch as they walk towards the pitch. 
He finally shakes Colin off when he reaches the changing rooms.

The rest of the Gryffindor team is already there, but no one looks 
really awake except Wood.  Wood starts to explain his new strategies 
and everyone falls asleep. They're started awake when Wood asks if 
there are any questions.  George asks why he couldn't have told them 
all this stuff yesterday when they were awake.  Wood gets angry and 
tells them they need to work harder than the other teams. Harry feels 
a little guilty when he realizes Wood is still upset about their 
defeat last year.

They leave the changing rooms to begin practice.  Ron, Hermione, and 
Colin are sitting in the stands. Colin begins to snap pictures as the 
Gryffindor team flies around the pitch. George asks Harry about Colin 
and Harry pretends not to know who he is.  Wood then accuses Colin of 
being a Slytherin spy. Harry quickly says that Colin is a Gryffindor 
and George says Slytherin doesn't need a spy because they're here in 
person.

Furious at the Slytherin presence, Wood shoots towards the ground to 
confront their team captain Marcus Flint. Wood tells Flint that they 
have booked the pitch.  Flint then pulls out a note from Snape saying 
they have permission to use the pitch because the Slytherins have to 
train their new seeker.  Draco appears out from behind six 
Slytherins. 

Fred makes a comment about him being Lucius Malfoy's son. Which then 
leads to Flint tell them about Lucius' generous gift, seven brand new 
Nimbus Two Thousand and One brooms that he bought for the Slytherin 
team. None of the Gryffindors can think of anything to say. By this 
time Ron, Hermione, and Colin have made their way down to the pitch. 
Draco comments about how he's the new seeker and his father's gift.  
Hermione tells Draco at least no one on Gryffindor's team had to buy 
their way on to the team. Draco tells her to shut up and calls her a 
filthy little Mudblood. 

Everyone on the Gryffindor team is shocked and angered by his 
comment; Harry and Hermione know it's an insult by how everyone is 
reacting but don't know the meaning behind it. A fight soon ensues 
and Ron pulls out his wand to curse Draco. However Ron's wand 
backfires and the curse hits him in the stomach instead.  When he 
tries to speak he belches instead and several slugs come out.

The Gryffindors don't know what to do and the Slytherins and doubled 
over with laughter.   Finally Harry and Hermione decide to take Ron 
to Hagrid's since his cabin is closer. Just as they get to the cabin 
they see Lockhart coming out. Harry and company duck behind a bush 
until Lockhart leaves.

They knock on Hagrid's door and he looks rather grumpy when he first 
opens the door thinking that Lockhart had returned.  Harry explains 
what happened on the Quidditch pitch. Hagrid then tells Harry and 
Hermione that being called a Mudblood is a really foul name for 
someone who is Muggle-born. Ron adds that by some pure-blood families 
Muggle-blood is dirty blood, Common blood. Hagrid teases Harry about 
giving away autographed pictures of himself.  Hagrid shows them the 
pumpkins he's be growing which are quite large. Hermione says 
something about and Engorgement Charm and Harry suspects that Hagrid 
has his old school wand hidden inside the flowery pink umbrella.

The trio head back up to the castle for lunch. Ron is still 
hiccoughing but only two very small slugs come up. As they step foot 
into the Entrance Hall Professor McGonagall stops them to tell Harry 
and Ron what their detentions are going to be.  Ron will be polishing 
all the silver in the trophy room, by hand, and Harry will be helping 
Professor Lockhart.  Harry asks if he can polish sliver too, but 
McGonagall tells Harry that Lockhart requested him specifically and 
they are to report to detention and Eight o'clock sharp.

Harry reluctantly shows up at Lockhart's office. He has to help 
address envelopes for all Lockhart's fan mail.  Harry doesn't really 
listen to Lockhart prattle on but occasionally throws in a mmm, right 
and yeah. Suddenly Harry hears a chilling voice whisper `Come
come to 
me
let me rip you
let me tear you
let me kill you
'. Harry asks the 
Professor if he hears the voice but Lockhart just looks astonished. 
Realizing that it's very late, Lockhart lets Harry leave. Harry 
strains to try and hear the voice again but it's gone.  He heads back 
to the dorm and waits for Ron.  He tells Ron about the voice and that 
Lockhart didn't hear it. They speculate that maybe someone might have 
been hiding under an invisibility cloak or that Lockhart is lying 
about not hear the voice.


  1)How does Hagrid get away with using his wand?  Does Dumbledore   
    know that Hagrid uses it and just tends to overlook it? What 
    about the MoM?

  2)Why would Hogwarts allow Draco to buy his way onto the Slytherin 
    Quidditch team? Are they that afraid of Lucius Malfoy?

  3)Why do you think Hermione and the other women (with the exception
    of McGonagall) can't see what a fraud Lockhart is? Do you think 
    he uses some sort of charm that only affects females?

  4)When you first read CoS, who did you think the mysterious voice   
    was?

  5)Why would they let a student keep a broken wand? Doesn't the 
    staff think it could be dangerous since a broken wand is 
    unpredictable?