Chapter 12 Summary

[jenfold at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20106

> 
> 1.  It is in this chapter that we first see Hermione exhibiting 
signs 
> of burnout.  Why hasn't anyone (namely teachers) noticed before 
now?  
> Why was she even allowed to take such a ghastly load anyway? 

 I think she was allowed to take the ghastly load because (A) Her 
first two years proved she was accademically good enough to do it and 
(B)She asked for it, and the school obviously thought she could cope. 
This again smacks of Hermione wanting to prove herself through school 
work. Though having said that as a muggle born you'd probably be far 
more interested in novel magic subjects than a pure blood wizard. And 
I personally would like to sit in on a couple of Muggle Studies 
lessons in order to see what strange ideas wizards have about 
muggles. 
> 
> 2.  Were Ron and Harry right to behave so abominably to Hermione in 
> the affair of the Firebolt?

 No, she was only looking out for Harry's best interests, far better 
to be safe than sorry.
> 
> 3.  How did Lupin find the boggart in Filch's filing cabinet in the 
> first place?

 Well since Filch is a squib he wouldn't be able to rid himself of a 
boggart. So I'd imagine it may have popped out of his filing cabinet 
when he was updating the Weasley twin's files scared him, causing him 
to rush out of his office into the corridor, where he bumped into 
Lupin and asked then him to get rid of it.
> 
> 4. *Is* it obvious what is making Lupin ill?  (yeah, yeah, yeah, I 
> know.  Pretend this is the first time you've read PoA)

 The name was a dead give away for me, so yep I realised what it was. 
> 
> 5.  Wood has the Gyffindor team practising 5 nights a week.  Do you 
> think this is allowed by school rules?  Is Wood a little *too* 
> obssessed?  

 I think if that level of practising was against the school rules the 
Slytherins would have reported the Gryffindors for over practising 
and getting an unfair advantage.
 Wood is a little too obsessed, but then he does want to win the 
quiddich cup before he leaves.
> 
> 6. Put on your thinking caps now.  Which is a worse fate: death, or 
> the dementor's kiss? Why?

 The dementor's kiss. Because it makes you a vegetable with no hope 
of recovery, death would be far more merciful IMHO. I wonder, do the 
MOM use the dementor's kiss and not the death penalty because they 
believe it makes them look better, because they're not actually 
extinguishing the life in the body.   
> 
> 7.  Ron is apparantly more easily angered at Hermione than is 
Harry, 
> even in the Firebolt Fuss.  Why is this?
> 
 Ron's latent feelings for Hermione perhaps (ducks thing thrown by 
H/H shippers.) Someone you really like can drive you to distraction 
and make you act strangely. Either that or he's just being an normal 
irrational teenager.

Jen