[HPforGrownups] Chapter 13 Summary

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 20131

Trina: <<<4.  Only 50 points from Slytherin for the dementor trick?  (Harry,
Hermione, and Neville lost 150 in the Norbert aftermath.)  Should it have been
more?  less?  detention?>>>
Jamieson: <<<It should have been a lot more. I think Malfoy should have been
expelled. ::hides from those who are now booing him at the thought of having
Malfoy gone::>>>

I disagree. I see no reason to expel him. Yes it was a nasty trick to play on
Harry, but not one worthy of expulsion. Also if it were worthy of expulsion
then so would have been the Sirius prank on Snape (telling him about the
Whomping Willow); an incident, in my view, that is a lot worse.


Trina: <<<5.  What did the spectators see when the patronus charged down
Malfoy and gang?>>>
Jamieson: <<<I think they saw a white form of light, as the patronus probably
wasn't at full form. Just a guess.>>>

It must have been fairly recognisable as a stag. In chapter 22, when
Dumbledore and Harry are talking over the events that have transpired,
Dumbledore says, "... I remember the most unusual form your Patronus took,
when it charged Mr Malfoy down at your Quidditch match ... So you did see your
father last night, Harry ... you found him inside yourself."

To me this suggests that Dumbledore could recognise it and so was able to make
the link between the two when he later heard about the Animagi forms that
James and co. took on.


Trina: <<<8.  How did Sirius Black get into the castle?>>>
Jamieson: <<<I have absolutley no idea. <g>. I know it's a poor answer, but
it's true!>>>
Priscilla: <<<Sirius gets into the castle in the exact same way that Harry
gets out: through the hump of the one-eyed crone. Remember, as one of the
writers of the Marauder's Map, Sirius knew were all the secret passages were
located. It's a bit difficult to comprehend Sirius running around the castle,
all the way from the passage to the Gryffindor Common Room, though. Do you
think he was in dog form, or do you think there could have been another
entrance that even the great Gred and Forge didn't know about?>>>

The hump of the one-eyed crone is the passageway that takes you into the
basement of Honeydukes. So I doubt that it is this tunnel that Sirius uses.
There are, however, a few others. Of the seven tunnels (PoA Ch 10), one is
blocked, one is the one mentioned above, one goes from the Whomping Willow to
the shrieking shack and so is no use for Sirius to get into the school. Of the
remaining 4 we know nothing.

All of the tunnels that are blocked up and the doors being taught to recognise
Sirius happens after his second attempt to get in. He does not try to do so
again and gives away no clue as to how he got into the school itself when we
meet him later in the book.



Simon
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