[HPforGrownups] Chapter 12 Summary

[Amber]

No: HPFGUIDX 20116


Cool review, Trina!
 
> 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?  

Gah, because she thinks she can. After all, she's been able to handle
all her classes before, what's adding another one, two, three,
four...and the teachers haven't noticed because the Hogwarts teachers
seem a bit self-absorbed, don't they?

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

Er, don't know. Knee-jerk reaction says no. But at the same time, I
remember being "betrayed" by friends. In a sense, this is what Hermione
did. I know, I know, she did it for Harry's own good but that doesn't
take the sting out of it. She went behind their backs to McGonagall.
While I wished they hadn't acted the way they did, I completely
understand it. Hermione certainly wasn't too tactful in PoA, was she...

But were they right? Of course not. Hermy-own-ninny deserves better
than that!

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

I didn't realize it at all. I *should've* but I didn't. But, of course,
I'm your normal vacuous reader. I don't analyze as I'm reading, I'm
just along for the ride.

> 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?  

Not *my* Oliver! <grin> Hey, he just wants to win the Quidditch Cup for
once. And so does the rest of the team. If they had *really* thought
that the practices were too much...well, it is six to one. They
could've overpowered Wood's practice schedules.

> 6. Put on your thinking caps now.  Which is a worse fate: death, or 
> the dementor's kiss? Why?  

Aren't they both the same? Isn't dead in spirit equivalent to dead in
body? I mean someone who isn't able to communicate, think, respond,
react just may as well be dead...

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

Because Ron tends to take things to extremes. It's all or nothing for
Ron and I have a feeling he'd treasure a grudge long past the time it
should've been given up. He's very much a person who is ruled by
emotions while Hermione is ruled by logic. Harry...I haven't quite
placed him yet. 

Neato questions, really made me think!

~Amber


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