Chapter 31 Summary

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 12699

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Michelle Apostolides" 
<michelleapostolides at l...> wrote:
> The Third Task
> Questions for discussion
> 
> 1 ) Is Molly Weasley just over protective of Harry in her attitude
> towards Hermione or is she prejudiced against Hermione because she 
is
> Muggle-born ?
> 
Muggle-born doesn't have anything to do with it, as far as I can 
tell.  I've never seen any Weasleys engage in prejudice like that.  
But we've seen that Molly was taken in by Gilderoy Lockhart.  I think 
she reads the Skeeter articles in a similarly wide-eyed way.  It 
didn't occur to her that the reporter would be making up flat-out 
lies, so she really was worried about Harry.  This does, however, 
make it seem that she is far more fond of Harry than she is 
Hermione.  Of course, she'll get past that when Hermione's her 
daughter-in-law ;)


> 3 ) Will Krum become a baddie ? ( CF his use of the Crucio Curse )

He was under the Imperius curse.  I don't think you can judge much by 
that.  I honestly think that Krum is a white-hat, although that does 
somewhat tweak the theory I'd had in the back of my mind that maybe 
the imperious curse was similar to what they say about hypnotism - 
you can get someone to do things, but not something that is 
fundamentally against their nature.  Oh well, I guess I'll toss that 
theory.

> 
> 4 ) Can we take Hermione and Ron's willingness to sacrifice their 
own
> study to help Harry prepare as a good sign for the future ?
> 

When you consider how important studying has been to Hermione in the 
past, and when you further consider that Ron let Harry stun him half 
a dozen times or more for practice, it's clear that the two of them 
are behind Harry 100%.  They're obviously willing to go the extra 
mile.  Not that that's new - they've always made sacrifices for each 
other, from the moment Hermione lied to McGonagall about the troll.  
It just reinforces to me that they are true friends, and they 
consider themselves a team.

> 5 ) Again looking at Molly Weasley and Amos Diggory, what do you 
think
> their attitudes to harry and Hermione respectively say about their
> belief in whatever the Daily Prophet publishes ?

They, like many of us, tend to expect actual news from their 
newspaper, and thus don't think to question it.  The difference I see 
between them is that Diggory wasn't willing to accept the truth when 
he had the chance, whereas Molly did, as soon as it was presented to 
her.  Diggory chose to continue in his misunderstanding of Harry and 
the situation, even though Cedric had tried to tell him otherwise.