[HPforGrownups] Chapter 25 Summary

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 8958

Joywitch wrote:

> 3.  The second half of this chapter reads completely differently when
> you know that Moody is really Crouch, Jr. and that Snape was once a
> Death Eater and has a mark on his arm.  Everyone (except maybe Filch)
> is maneuvering to save his own butt.  I just had no clue anything
> weird was going on here the first time I read it, did you?

It was pretty clear to me that Moody and Snape had had a capital-P Past,
and that there were undercurrents to the conversation. Undertows, more
like. Moody obviously had something on Snape, even if it were simply his
knowledge of Snape's past, which nobody has tried to hide; I thought Snape
just disliked the reminders of the whole era and had a habit of conceding,
with ill grace, to those who had not "fallen." But I had no clue of the
real complexity of things.

> 4.  (This has been discussed before.) When Harry is stuck in the
> stairway, why doesn't he say "Accio Map" to get the Marauder's Map
> out of the way?

He's 14, it's very late, he's not paying attention, and he's been soaking
in a hot, heavily perfumed bath. I'm not my most alert just out of the tub
at night. I don't think it even occurred to him.

--Amanda