[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 1022

[Helen N]

No: HPFGUIDX 21812

Craig:
**Appropriately, I scored as being most like Ron on the "Which Harry
Potter character are you like?" quiz.

There's a which Harry Potter character are you like? quiz????? Where where 
where? (Not that I need it, I already know...)



So...onto questions...(I'm pressed for time, so I'm only answering some of 
them)

2. Did you have any suspicions about Scabbers not being a rat? After all, we
already knew that he had been in the Weasley family for quite some time.

None whatsoever. And now I feel stoopid.


3. What did you think when Harry, Ron and Hermione disarmed Snape? Do you 
think
they did the right thing or should they have waited for something actually 
to
happen?

Truly? I thought Woohoo! I think they did the right thing, but for the wrong 
reasons, because they didn't know the right reasons yet (if you follow me). 
But I was still glad. I think he's an extremely interesting character, but 
I'm NOT a Snape fan.

4. When did you start to believe Sirius? When you heard that Scabbers was
actually an Animagus or did it take you as long as it took Harry?

When Crookshanks sat on his chest. For some reason, I trusted Crookshanks 
right from the start - I saw him as grumpy, but good. I definately trusted 
Sirius after Lupin did - I never once doubted dear old Remus.

5. When Sirius told them about the night when James and Lily died, he had 
tears
in his eyes. Did this scene have some kind of effect on you and deflected a 
bit
from the evil wizard he was supposed to be?

The bit that really tugged on my heartstrings was "You should have died. 
Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you." Every 
time I read that it echos in my head...


9. Now that you know what happened at the end of Book 4, do you think that 
Harry
would have been better off if he would have let Lupin and Black kill 
Pettigrew?

No. Harry refusing to let Pettigrew die is one of my favourite moments in 
the series so far. IMO, it shows that Harry is a fundamentally good person, 
because he knows that killing isnt right, whatever the circumstances. Of 
course, that's just my take on it, and I'm biased, being EXTREMELY 
anti-death penalty.

10. Did you feel any kind of sympathy for Pettigrew?

Yes, definately. Some Death Eaters seem to be what they are because they 
enjoy the power and the killing. Peter, to me at least, doesn't seem that 
way. He seems to be a Death Eater because he couldn't quite work out how to 
be anything else. I think he killed Lily and James because he saw it as his 
only option, because he was too scared to do anything else. I feel very 
sorry for someone who is that scared by his life.

Now, empathy? That's different. I can't really empathise with Pettigrew, 
because I hope and believe that I would be braver and stronger than that. 
Though I s'pose you don't know until you've been in the same situation, in 
which case I hope I never know.



2 knuts from
Helen


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Helmione Nightingranger - 87% obsessed with Harry Potter
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"... here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root
of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a
tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or
mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars
apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)..."
~ E. E. Cummings
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