[HPforGrownups] Re: PoA Chapters 18-20 Summary (long)

Mon Jul 2 15:28:10 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 21795

 --- catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk ha scritto: 
<6. Why do you think has Sirius waited so long before
<he escaped <BR>
<from Azkaban?<BR>
<> After all, he could have gotten away years ago,
<since it couldn't <BR>
<have taken him<BR>
<> twelve years to get thin enough to pass through
<the bars?<BR>
<BR>
<I think that seeing the article about the Weasleys
<going to Egypt, <BR>
<and seeing that Pettigrew was at Hogwarts brought
<Sirius right back <BR>
<into the present. It is likely that he had
<spent all this time <BR>
<dwelling on the past (unhappy memories linger in
<Azkaban). When he <BR>
<realised that Pettigrew was positioned closely to
<Harry, this gave <BR>
<him the impetus to act.<BR>

IMO, it would have been more understandable, without
having to change anything at the plot, if Sirius had
evaded after having lost enough weight to get through
the bars as a dog, and then gone to hide abroad
(Egypt??). JKR could have made it at least as
plausible that he got hold of the newspaper somewhere
else, saw the photo etc.etc. Of course, his hate
against Pettigrew would lack the additional motivation
of 12 lost years in Azkaban, but I'd say he had enough
reasons to hate Peter for all the things he had done,
even without the 12 years.

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> 8. We know Lupin as a very kind and calm person.
Why do you think <BR>
was he almost<BR>
> as eager to kill Pettigrew as Sirius was?<BR>
<BR>
I have never understood this. Why on earth
weren't they clever <BR>
enough to realise that a confession from Pettigrew was
necessary to <BR>
secure Sirius Black's freedom and have him declared
innocent. I <BR>
think that this was a device to let Harry step in and
put a stop to <BR>

Pettigrew's body would have been more than enough to
prove Sirius' innocence.

10. Did you feel any kind of sympathy for
Pettigrew? 
 
None at all. Cowardice is no excuse. Betraying
one's friends like 
that, I personally feel, is inexcusable, and I think
he has his just 
desserts, as Voldemort treats him as the vermin he
is. (Another kind 
of pun, sorry).

Yes, that's the punishment he deserves: Being treated
like vermin also by Voldemort who obviously sees
through him and will use him as long as he's useful.

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13. Do you think it was an accident that this Dementor
tried to <BR>
administer the<BR>
> Kiss to Harry, or do you think the Dementors
aren't as loyal to <BR>
Fudge as he<BR>
> would like them to be?<BR>
<BR>
I have absolutely no idea on this one. I think
that the Dementors <BR>
are selfserving. They had their official quarry
in sight (Sirius) - <BR>
perhaps the fact that others were with him were enough
to stir them <BR>
into attempting a kiss. Perhaps they all wanted
to administer the <BR>
kiss to Sirius, argued about it, and decided to go for
all of them <BR>
instead.<BR>

As Lupin says, when talking to Harry about the
Dementors: "....all that excitement...emotions running
high...it was their idea of a feast"
In that moment, Harry was the most "appetizing" of the
three, with Sirius and Hermione lying unconscious on
the ground.

BTW: When I think of the dementors, I don't see
them as individuals, 
but as one mass entity. I get the feeling that
if one of them 
feels/experiences something, they will all do so,
perhaps a little 
like the Midwich (sp) Cuckoos. Does anyone else
think this as well?

I don't know the Midwich Cuckoos, they reminded me of
the soldiers of Xayde in the Never Ending Story: It
came out that they were nothing but empty ahells,
driven by Xayde's will.

Susanna/pigwidgeon37

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