PoA Chapter 14 Summary

[Emma Moniz]

No: HPFGUIDX 20512

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Lyda Clunas" <lydaclunas at x> wrote:
> Well, I know that I'm posting this a day early, but I'm going
> out of town this week, and I wanted to make sure I was able to read 
> and respond to some of the replies before I leave. :) So, here you 
go.

Have lots of fun, wherever you're going!

> Questions and Ruminations:
> 
> 1) Snape's Grudge: Is it simply a long-standing hatred for
> James' arrogance and a powerful jealousy about Quidditch? Is it 
> really all about the prank that MWPP pulled during their years at 
> Hogwarts? Or, as most of us suspect, is there something more? (Open 
> Season on Snape/Lily. Have at it.)

I'm tempted to think that James, and now Harry, was everything Snape 
wanted to be.  Popular, a good Quidditch player, surrounded by a 
close-knit group of friends and generally a success.  James had a 
girlfriend who was, by most opinions, highly attractive and a success 
in her own right.  Harry now is filling those shoes, and he is given 
leeway by Dumbledore.  I think Snape never had any of those things, 
and I think he's seeing James over again, and some of those old 
wounds are opening up.  Snape seems bitter and vindictive, but I 
don't doubt that he is on the right side.  I'd probably lash out at 
Harry, too.
  
> 
> 2) It's insinuated that Snape knows perfectly well who Messrs.
> Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs are. So, why doesn't he 
question Lupin straight out, rather than being so indirect? 

Professionalism.  Snape may be a slimy jerk at times, but I think he 
knows better than to discuss something like that with a fellow 
teacher in front of a student.

> 
> 3) Why is it that Hagrid's great guilt trip makes Ron incredibly 
> uncomfortable, but yet he still treats Hermione like dirt? Don't 
> Hagrid's words mean *anything* to him?

I think Ron has some issues dealing with this kind of thing.  He has 
to be right, and barring that, he has to come to the conclusion that 
is is wrong and has been a prat on his own.  Otherwise, they don't 
stick.  It's one thing to be told you're being a prat.  It's another 
to realise it fully on your own.

> 
> 4) How on earth did Hermione find that time to help Hagrid, when
> it's quite obvious that she has barely enough time for all of her 
> homework and classes? Would she use the Timeturner to help her look 
> up stuff for Buckbeak's case? 

I think she was missing out on sleep, too, as has been previously 
suggested.  Someone told me once that "sleep is what people do when 
they've run out of options."  Hermione has plenty of options, and I 
think Hagrid is more important to her than her own well-being.  
Hermione seems to be willing to sacrifice a lot for her friends and 
for the greater good.  She's made of stern stuff, our Hermione.

> 
> 5) After the Hogsmeade incident, has Malfoy now figured out that 
> Harry owns an Invisibility Cloak?

I wouldn't doubt it.  I think he suspects a lot about Harry that we 
don't know, since the books are written from third person limited.

> 
> 6) Aside from The Three Broomsticks, Honeydukes, the post office, 
> Zonko's, Gladrags, and the Shrieking Shack, what other places are 
> there in Hogsmeade? 

I really think Hogsmeade is a thriving wizarding community, with a 
grocer's and all sorts of things like that.  There's probably a bunch 
of little houses and I'd say some kind of village green where they 
have fairs and markets and such.  There's probably some kind of 
government building, too, other than the post office. However, I 
wouldn't know a whole lot about how a British town would look, as 
I've grown up in the American South.

> 
> 7) Who lives in Hogsmeade, aside from the shop owners, and what do 
> they do?

Well, have Floo Powder, will travel, I'd wager.  I think there are a 
lot of witches and wizards in Hogsmeade; they just happen to commute 
to various wizarding jobs around the country.  Maybe Hogsmeade is the 
wizarding world's equivalent of the suburbs?

~Emma