[HPforGrownups] Re: Father figures revisited & McGonagall

[Susanna Luhtanen]

No: HPFGUIDX 27760



Susanna Luhtanen
s_luhtanen at hotmail.com



>From: "Cindy C." <cynthiaanncoe at home.com>
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Father figures revisited & McGonagall
>Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:55:12 -0000
>
>
>First, I've always been struck about how Sirius keeps the focus on
>Harry in the Shrieking Shack scene.  When Harry objects to killing
>Pettigrew, I half expected Sirius to say, "To heck with that.  I'm
>not avenging James and Lily.  I'm killing Pettigrew to pay him back
>for what he did to me."  But he never says anything like that, which
>shows that his devotion to Harry is deep indeed.  I do wonder what
>Sirius would do now if he met Pettigrew in a dark alley.  I think
>Sirius' loyalty to Harry on this point would save Pettigrew again.

Well, I think Sirius would use a 'stupefy' spell or some such to capture him 
instead of killing. (For Harry and for himself)

>Second, I have observed that, despite having McGonagall as a teacher
>for 4 years, Harry doesn't have much of a relationship with her.  He
>doesn't ask her for help with his problems, really.  I would have
>expected her to be a mother figure by now, but Molly Weasley has
>really stepped into that role.  Sure, McGonagall fulfills
>the "nagging" (for lack of a better word) part of a mother's role,
>but there hasn't been a great deal of counsel from McGonagall yet.
>There is still time, I suppose.

Yes.
Harry's first impression of Ms. McGonagall: "You don't want to make her 
angry" and it has held so far.

Maybe Harry will ask her to teach him to be animagus - registered one, of 
course. (He's been growing his hair by magic all his life, you know)

Wandless magic: blowing things and people up. Could Harry learn to master 
it?

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