Chapter Summary - PoA 10 & 11

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 19771

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Indigo" <indigo at i...> wrote:
> > 3. What do you think--=does= Sirius get into Hogwarts by the 
secret 
> > passages?  If not, how?
> 
> It must be the secret passages!  Most likely the one by the 
Whomping 
> Willow since he and the rest of the Marauders came and went to the 
> Shrieking Shack by that one, and that's where the whole denouement 
> goes down at the end of the book. 

The problem with the Whomping Willow is that it doesn't lead directly 
into the castle, but into the grounds, so Sirius would still have had 
to get past the protections put in place round the castle itself - 
eg, teaching the doors to recognise him etc.

> > 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?
> 
> Possible.  Maybe the "what's in a name" thing would be useful here. 
> What's a Gudgeon? 
> 
> MERRIAM WEBSTER: 
> gudgeon [noun]
> gud*geon [1] (noun)
> 
> [Middle English gudyon, from Middle French goujon]
> 
> First appeared 15th Century
> 
>  1 : PIVOT 1, JOURNAL
> 
>  2 : a socket for a rudder pintle
> 
> gudgeon [2] (noun)
> 
> [Middle English gojune, from Middle French gouvion, gougon, from 
> Latin gobion-, gobio, alteration of gobius -- more at GOBY]
> 
> First appeared 15th Century
> 
>  : a small European freshwater fish (Gobio gobio) related to the 
> carps and often used for food or bait
> 
>  
A more recent meaning of gudgeon, used widely in the 18th/19th 
centuries in England, is to describe someone who is stupid, 
ponderous, - something like a cross between an airhead and a pedant, 
so someone who probably thinks he is clever, and therefore likes the 
sound of his own voice, but isn't.  I haven't looked this up so can't 
swear to its accuracy, but remember it from years of reading 
Georgette Heyer.

Catherine

"Bouillabaise," said Hermione
"Bless you," said Ron.

(thought it's about time I start adding sig lines).