PoA Chapter Summary: Chapter 7

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Chapter 7, "The Boggart in the Wardrobe"

Malfoy turns up again halfway through double Potions on Thursday 
morning.  Because of his "injury", Harry and Ron have to cut his 
daisy roots and skin his shrivelfig for his Shrinking Solution.  
Malfoy lets Harry and Ron know that Lucius isn't happy about what 
happened with the Hippogriff.  Neville is having his own problems.  
His solution is orange, not the bright, acid green it should be.  
Snape tells him that at the end of class, he'll feed some of the 
potion to Trevor.  Neville enlists Hermione's help.  In the meantime, 
Seamus tells Harry that Sirius Black has been sighted 'not too far 
from here' but he got away.  Malfoy listens intently, then tries to 
goad Harry into going after Black himself.  At the end of the lesson, 
Snape walks over to Neville, feeds Trevor a few drops of the potion, 
which, thanks to Hermione's help, shrinks him to a tadpole.  Once 
he's back to a toad, Snape takes five points from Gryffindow because 
Hermione helped Neville.  
As they exit the dungeon, Hermione disappears.  She reappears and 
covers up for where she was. 
Their first Defense against the Dark Arts class is a practical one.  
They follow Remus down the corridor and around the corner where they 
encounter Peeves stuffing the keyhole of the broom closet with gum.  
Peeves, upon seeing Remus, sings a rude song.  Very calmly, Remus 
tells Peeves that with gum in the keyhole, Filch won't be able to get 
to his brooms.  Peeves blows a raspberry.  Sighing, Remus takes out 
his wand, holds it at shoulder height, says 'Waddiwasi" and points 
the wand at Peeves.  The gum shoots out of the keyhole and up 
Peeves's left nostril.  Remus earns respect. 
They go into the staff room where Snape is alone.  As he leaves, he 
makes a wisecrack about Neville being hopeless.  Remus assures Snape 
that he's got a task for the class and he's sure Neville will perform 
his part admirably.  Class begins.  Their task is to get rid of a 
boggart.  After preliminaries, Remus lines the class up (Neville 
first) and lets them face the boggart one by one.  Neville's greatest 
fear is Snape and he puts him in his grandmother's clothes.  They 
each take a turn but Remus doesn't let Harry tackle it.  

QUESTIONS

1.  Why was Remus on the train?

2.  What do you think Ginny experiences when the Dementors get near?  

3.  What do you think Neville experiences when the Dementors get near?

4.  Just how badly was Malfoy hurt?

5.  Why wasn't Remus applauded by everyone when he was introduced as 
    the new DADA teacher?

6.  Why is Neville so terrified of Snape?

7.  Why do you think Hermione feels she must take all those classes?

8.  Why does JKR refer to Remus as Lupin?  (She does this with Snape 
    and Dumbledore as well)

9.  Is there more to Remus than meets the eye (other than being a 
    werewolf)? 

Sorry, I couldn't think of a 10th one.  Care of Magical Creatures 
summary will be up later.