[HPforGrownups] H, Basilisk, Krum, Snape; Neville/Colin

[Vicky Ra]

No: HPFGUIDX 20679

Jami: We all know Hermione is brilliant. But almost all of the
time, when faced with a choice, she goes "brave" over "smart" ... lying for
Harry and Ron over the troll incident in PS/SS, confronting the basilisk
herself in CoS, etc.

I don't think she purposely looked for the basilisk. It was probably an
accident.

Lyda: That depends on if she visits him
 in Bulgaria, but I got the
impression that she turned down his offer. I bet her parents wouldn't
be too keen on the idea anyway; I know my mother would *never* have
let me date an 18-year-old guy when I was 14, and she'd have had a
heart attack if some an older guy asked me to come stay with him in a
different country. I think a long-distance friendship might continue,
but if her glares to Fleur Delacour in GoF are any indication, I
think she has her mind on a certain someone else. Which, I might add,
is kind of ironic, since Ron seems to be so much less mature than she.

Definitely. I think she and Harry are better suited. However, Harry doesn't
seem to have romantic interest in her. As for her glares to Fleur, couldn't
it just be because she looks down on her and dislikes her as a person?

Poor Viktor. He seems like a nice guy. I'd like to see more of him. I
suppose a long distance friendship could last, but I feel sorry for the poor
owls who have to deliver their letters. I'd like to think her family
vacationed in Bulgaria so she could look up Krum, but it remains to be seen
whether she did or not. It was never mentioned, strangely enough. I mean,
Harry and Ron didn't ask about what Viktor wanted at the end of GoF.

Lyda: So, your saying that he says "I see no difference" because he doesn't
want to be racist? Forgive the snort (*snort*), but if he didn't want
to appear to be making an off-color remark that might implicate him,
why couldn't he just say "Hospital wing" and leave it at that?

'Cause he wants to keep up appearances with his Slyths, and simply out of
petty malice, probably. Of course, when she ran off, presumably to the
hospital wing, he didn't move to stop her. I don't see any logical reason
for his hatred of Hermione, though. I can see how Ron would get on his
nerves, and perhaps Hermione's know-it-all attitude annoys him, but that's
no reason to hate her. However, I notice that after Snape made that cruel
comment, her eyes filled with tears. I know she was humiliated, but was she
hurt as well? And if so, this speaks a lot for her maturity. Maybe there's a
part of her that sympathizes with or pities him. She seems to be the only
one of the trio who is inclined to trust him.

Catlady: I think Harry IS being too rude to poor Colin, the way he just
brushes
him off all the time,  and am astonished that Colin has not yet shown
any hurt feelings about it. On the day in PoA when Harry was excluded
from the Hogmeade outing, Harry was just as mean to poor Neville, who
was being nice when he suggested they could play Exploding Snap or work
on their homework together.

Agreed. But I guess Harry was upset about not being allowed to go with Ron
and Hermione. Still, he ought to have told Neville he was feeling bad about
it, and that he wasn't in the mood for company. Both Neville and Colin are
very strong people, to deal with sorrow and hurt feelings so meekly. I'd be
furious with Harry.

Catlady: No. It was not obvious. Even tho' I got the werewolf idea as soon
as I
saw the name Lupin, I didn't figure out that his Boggart was the moon
and I didn't realize that his sick day was connected to the moon phase.

Yeah, when I saw Lupin, I thought he had something to do with wolves, and I
didn't notice those things you mentioned either. Of course, this is because
we weren't given the information to make the deduction of his lycanthropy.
We weren't told about the moon phases, and I don't think he was shown to be
ill every month in the course of the book...

Vicky