[HPforGrownups] SS/PS Chapter Twelve Summary and Questions

[Susanne Schmid]

No: HPFGUIDX 28771


 
  lamppost42 at hotmail.com wrote:
Really nice summary! Sorry for having snipped, bnut I got a howler yesterday and have decided to become Pery-ish about rules ;P 
Questions:

1. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley are visiting Charlie in Romania for Christmas. 
What does this indicate about Charlie? (Why can't he return to the 
Burrow for the holidays? His own family? Work?)

This might be a very personal comment, but maybe he simply doesn't *want* to? I'd imagine that at his age, supposing that he's somewhere round 26, having escaped Molly Weasley's maternal tentacles feels too good to return to The Burrow for two weeks and have her rant endlessly about earrings with dragon fangs or whatever bothers her. From my own experience of the last 4 years, when I lived in Italy and had my parents on occasional visits staying at my place, I know that it's far easier to cope with overwhelming parental presence when standing on your own ground.

2. Do you feel that the sterotypical portrayal of Madame Pince as the 
ill-tempered, spinsterish librarian is problematic and/or overly 
simplistic, or is it another misleading characterization brought to 
you by Red Herring, Inc.?
Hmmmm... I think that it's one of JKR's major tricks to do no more than sketches of persons she doesn't need right now, as to be able to use them later on in the way that best suits the plot. So that might be the case of Madam Pince as well.  


3. How did Ron get so good at chess? Who did he play with? The only 
other Weasley that we that we know plays chess is Ron's (possibly 
deceased) grandfather.

He might be a natural, like Harry is a natural at flying.

4. (How timely!) Sure, Ron complains about maroon sweater (and corned 
beef), but considering that Percy, Fred and George all have their 
first initial knitted into their sweaters and Ron's does not, do you 
think that his family really does notice him less than his other 
siblings? What niche does this leave for Ron?

I've got a slightly different theory here: Doesn't Molly strike you just as the "You-Eat-What-You-Get-And-Thank-God-You-Got-It"-type? That kind of parents who don't approve of their children making certain choices because they themselves didn't have the chance to choose? To me, she's the mother who would give me a plate with fat meat, which I happen to hate, and make me eat it all, without allowing me to cut away the fat bits, because she had to do the same when she was a girl.(This is getting a bit psychoanalytic, I apologize, but writing mails is definitely cheaper than seeing a shrink)

5. Percy nearly breaks a tooth on a silver sickle in his Christmas 
pudding. In muggle traditions, the person who finds the coin in their 
slice of pudding will come into money during the following year. 
Considering Percy's low-level Ministry job in GoF, is this just a 
throwaway bit, or is JKR hinting at big things for Percy (and not 
necessarily of a wholesome nature) in future books? 


Well, if he goes on like that, he sure as hell will need a lot of money to get his teeth redone (imagine if that had happened to Gilderoy- he would have fainted from the shock)


6. If the Mirror of Erised had not been the Philosopher's Stone's 
final protection prior to December 27th, what kind of puzzle or 
enchantment do you think Dumbledore protected it with between July 31 
and December 27?


Just the ones we see later-difficult enough I'd say


7. Assuming Dumbledore WAS being truthful about seeing himself with 
socks in the Mirror of Erised, (a big assumption, but this can count 
as my fun question!) why does Dumbledore desire them so? (see Pablo 
Neruda's ""Ode to My Socks")


Maybe he likes the feeling when they're fluffy and new and would like to throw them away after wearing them a single time instead of washing them

Susanna/pigwidgeon37 (not really feeling like working today, hope it wears off during the week)

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