[HPforGrownups] Chapter 7 Summary and Questions

[Bethany]

No: HPFGUIDX 24131


--- Kristin <Alyeskakc at aol.com> wrote:

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

 Dumbledore knows that Hagrid uses the wand. IMO there
isn't much that goes on that he doesn't know about.
Anyway, remember in PS/SS after Hagrid has Harry and
they are in the boat, he says he isn't supposed to use
magic now that he has Harry. How could he do any
magic, unless he still had his wand or part of it?
That seems to imply that Dumbledore does know.

>   2)Why would Hogwarts allow Draco to buy his way
> onto the Slytherin 
>     Quidditch team? Are they that afraid of Lucius
> Malfoy?
> 
  Hogwarts didn't allow it, the Slytherin Quidditch
team did. It seems from what we saw in PS/SS that it
is up to the team captain who is on the team. Albeit
they have to have clearance from a professor/their
head of house. I don't think Malfoy's influence has as
much to do with anything as his money. He gets to help
out his old house and get his son rocognition. Why on
earth would Flint refuse the then fastest brooms?

>   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?
> 
  Males aren't the only ones succeptable to the
syndrome of "with looks like that, who cares if s/he
is capable of speech?" The other explaination is that
they are so blinded by the light glinting off of his
ever present smile that they can't see/think straight.
Then again, maybe he *does* have the same effect on
everyone, but it isn't discussed. Sounds like the
beginning of a very disturbing slash. Anything
involving Lockheart is disturbing...

>   4)When you first read CoS, who did you think the
> mysterious voice was?
> 
  The disembodied spirit of Voldemort. I was thinking
perhaps he hadn't gone so far as everyonr thought...
in a round about sort of way I was right...well, not
really but I had to try. 

>   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?
> 

While a broken wand is unpredictable, what can they do
really? It was his own fault (sorry Ron) that it was
broken in the first place and most of the professors
would take the stand that he had to deal with the
results by himself. There is also the money issue.
There are a *lot* of Weasley's in school. They can't
really afford another wand, and the school can't buy
wands for everyone. Since he is only a second year, he
doesn't really know *that* much that couldn't be
undone. No AK or cruciatious at this point (he
shouldn't be using them anyway) so no serious harm.

~Bethany


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