[HPforGrownups] Chapter 12 Summary

[Barbara Purdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 20114

> Chapter 12  The Patronus
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 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?  

It really should have occurred to McGonagall that
Hermione would be living 27 or 30 hours for everyone
else's 24, and still only getting 6-8 hours of sleep
in that time.  Another question is, because of all the
done-over time, how much older is Hermione now?

> 2.  Were Ron and Harry right to behave so abominably
> to Hermione in the affair of the Firebolt?

They were being typical sports-crazed teenage boys. 
Doesn't make it right, but they were probably
incapable of any other reaction.
 
> 3.  How did Lupin find the boggart in Filch's filing
> cabinet in the first place?
 
So LUPIN found the boggart, not Filch!  What was Lupin
doing going through Filch's filing cabinet?  Perhaps
looking for the Marauder's Map, not realizing that the
Weasley twins had already taken it?  And if Filch did
ever encounter a boggart, what would it turn into?  

> 4. *Is* it obvious what is making Lupin ill?  (yeah,
> yeah, yeah, I know.  Pretend this is the first time
> you've read PoA)

Only to someone who'd done Snape's werewolf essay, as
Hermione did.  And she wasn't about to share with the
boys to get back at them for the Firebolt episode.
 
> 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?  

Yes.  
 
> 6. Put on your thinking caps now.  Which is a worse
> fate: death, or the dementor's kiss? Why?  
> 
Dementor's kiss.  At least, if dead, you stand a
chance at becoming a ghost and still having something
of a social life (even if you can't join the Headless
Hunt).

> 7.  Ron is apparantly more easily angered at
> Hermione than is Harry, even in the Firebolt Fuss.  
> Why is this?

You know why. Extremely relieved that Hermione is okay
after the basilisk is killed, always first to attack
Malfoy for calling her a Mudblood...who wants a house
falling on his/her head anyway?




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