Chapter Summary - PoA 10 & 11

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> Questions:
> 
> 
> 2. If you could buy one treat at Honeydukes, what would it be?

 A fizzing whizzbee.
> 
> 3. What do you think--=does= Sirius get into Hogwarts by the secret 
> passages?  If not, how?

 Maybe Crookshanks show him how to get in through the route the pets 
use to move about the castle.
> 
> 4. Fudge says that Black's part in the Potters' deaths "isn't 
widely known." 
>   Is there any significance to the reason why not, i.e., is it 
deliberately 
> being kept secret, and if so, why?

 This could explain why the Potters friends sent Harry photos with 
Sirius in, they didn't know that he was supposed to be the person 
that led Voldie to the Potters. Although they were probably aware 
that he was a death eater.
 The fact that not many people know what Sirius was supposed to have 
done suggests to me a ministry cover up. If it had been widely told 
that Sirius had helped kill the Potters a trial may have been 
demanded by the ordinary wizarding people, especially as this was the 
event that toppled Voldie. And perhaps some death eaters in the 
ministry such as Augustus Rookwood knew about Peter but wanted to get 
rid of Sirius. 
> 
> 5. How do you explain the discrepancy between Hagrid's account here 
about 
> the motorbike (that Sirius specifically told him to keep it 
permanently) and 
> what he says in PS/SS 1 (that he needs to return it to Sirius)?

 I agree with Susan on this.
> 
> 6. How does the Fidelius Charm work?  Does it hide you from 
everybody, from 
> one person only, from a selected list . . . ?

 Later on in the books Sirius says I think he went from Peter's house 
when he found he was missing to the Potters. So he obviously knew 
where they were. While elsewhere it says that Voldemort could be 
staring through the Potters windows at them but wouldn't know they 
were there unless the secret keeper gave up the secret.If my memory 
is wonky please tell me.
 But this suggests that it hides your actual presence from all people 
but not the location. Voldie and the DEs could have searched all the 
places the Potters may have been, even Godric's Hollow but would have 
been unaware that the Potters were there until Peter broke the charm. 
> 
> 7. What about the Marauder's Map?  The usual questions: in 2 ½ 
years, why 
> didn't Fred and George ever notice that their brother was 
frequently 
> accompanied by some guy named Peter Pettigrew?  does it show all of 
> Hogwarts?  does it show ghosts?  Etc. . . .

 The usual answers. I think the map only show you things that may 
effect your marauding within a certain range or things that you 
especially want to see such as the location of Snape. If ickle 
Ronniekins wasn't going to get in the twins way they'd probably not 
even see him and Peter on the map. It seems to show a wide range of 
Hogwarts, I'm not sure about all. And it probably show the ghosts. 
Why? because they could go and tell Filch about the mischief you were 
planning.  
> 
> 8. Lupin says that a boy named Davey Gudgeon nearly lost an eye to 
the 
> Whomping Willow; Lockhart had a fan named Gladys Gudgeon (CoS 7); 
any 
> relation?

 Probably the wizarding world isn't huge. And wasn't Davey a good red 
herring for book 4 when all JKR would say is that the new DADA 
teacher had a magic eye.
> 
> 9. Is Snape's vulture-topped-hat cracker favor (a) a plant by 
Dumbledore, 
> (b) evidence that wizard crackers magically respond to the psyche 
of whoever 
> pulls them, (c )  a coincidence, or (d) something else?
> 
 I would hope it isn't (a) that would be fairly mean of Dumbledore, 
and think that (b) is possibly the most likely.

> 10. Is Trelawney's prediction that either Ron or Harry will 
predecease the 
> others at the table going to come true?
>
 If it does it will occur in some unexpected way. 
 
> 11. Why does Lupin flee when Trelawney offers to crystal gaze for 
him?

 Wouldn't you all that woman seems to predict is doom and gloom and 
death. And apart from that, Lupin may be afraid that she'll let it 
slip that he's a werewolf in order to seem impressive in from of her 
students.

 Jen