Chapter 12 Summary

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 20155

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Indigo" <indigo at i...> wrote:

> > 
> > 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?  
> > 

One thing I've wondered about - why couldn't Hermione have used the 
turner to dial up a few extra hours of naptime? Maybe she was being 
too Type A to think of it (she would have never thought to use to 
save Black and Buckbeak without Dumbledore's prompting).  Or maybe, 
just like meeting your past or future self, terrible things have 
happened to wizards who overslept while time-turning!


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


It depends - whatever her religious beliefs may be, JKR clearly 
shows - via the ghosts - that there is some kind of an afterlife in 
her magical universe.  So how does having one's soul sucked out by a 
Dementor affect one's afterlife spiritual status?  My guess is that 
the Kiss has a most unfavorable effect on same.  I'll stick with 
Death.

   - CMC