[HPforGrownups] Chapter 13 Summary

[Jennye & Michael Woolf]

No: HPFGUIDX 20149


  << 1. Why does Hermione not exhibit the least bit of sympathy for Ron on
  the loss of Scabbers? Does Ron just have it in for Crookshanks
  because he jumped on his head in Diagon Alley?

  I think that Hermione is in semi-denial about the Scabbers incident. She
never *really* believed that he was dead when Ron came down with the blood
stained sheet. She insisted that he look under all the beds to try to find
him. I don't think she had any real reason to believe he wasn't dead though,
she just didn't want to believe that Crookshanks had hurt him.

   << 2.  Did Harry see the Grim on the way back to the castle or was he
  just imagining things?  Why doesn't he tell Ron?

  Have you read PoA before? The answer about the "grim" comes later when he
meets up with Sirius Black.

  << 3.  Do you like the descriptions of the Quidditch matches?  Are they
  just a waste of pages?

  I do like them. I dunno why.

  << 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?

  It has always annoyed me that Malfoy and his cronies never get equal
punishment for what I think to be worse crimes. Maybe McGonagall is harder
on Harry et al because she expects more from them...?

  5.  What did the spectators see when the patronus charged down Malfoy
  and gang?

   I think they saw the same Patronus that Harry conjures later in the book

  6.  Why did Percy pin his HB badge to his jammies?  Is he afraid the
  others will forget he *is* Head Boy?

  I think he is just really high-and-mighty about the whole HB thing and
likes to wave around his symbol of "power."

  7.  Neville: brave, or "abysmally foolish"?

  Poor Neville. I think he is brave AND a schlemiel. He really wants to do
good and brave things (why else would he be in Gryffindor?) but he just
can't seem to get himself together.


  8.  How did Sirius Black get into the castle?

  Again, Have you read PoA before? The answer about this comes later.




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