SS/PS Chapter 06 Summary

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amber ?" <inviziblegirl at h...> wrote:

> 
> A warning: these questions are not the finest. They are a bit lame. 
Truly I 
> racked my brains but couldn't come up with anything better. If 
anyone can 
> think up more interesting ones, by all means pose them to the group!

I know the feeling - I've done chapter summaries for the list and I 
remember the sinking feeling of only being able to come up with 
questions that everyone on the list has already discussed...


> Questions:
> 
> 1) Why wasn't Harry told about the barrier to the platform nine and 
> three-quarters and how to get through it? What do you think would 
have 
> happened if Harry hadn't figured out the barrier?

I think it was one of those things that fell through the cracks.  
It's a minor detail in a way - it's not major like getting Harry into 
Diagon Alley where he'll learn about wands and wizard money and robes 
and owls etc.  Maybe Hagrid was supposed to tell him, but, with 
everything else that had to be done, it slipped his mind

> 2) Do you remember your first impressions of the Weasley family? Of 
Ron? 
> What were they?

My first thought was "Oh, my God - it's the Conant family!!"  They 
were a family that lived near me when I was a kid.  The one girl in 
the family was my age and she had six brothers.  They weren't red-
heads, though.  Not the answer you wanted, I know, but that's life...

I liked Ron immediately because he connected with Harry quickly.  He 
was generous with his knowledge and explanations of the wizard world 
where he could have been snotty - "Oh, you're the Boy-Who-Lived and 
you don't know squat about wizard life..." 

I liked the twins, too, because they seemed way too unimpressed with 
authority and very comfortable with themselves.

> 3) What was your first impression of Hermione? Did you guess that 
she would 
> become a main character at this point?

I think my first thought was that she would be one of those 
tedious "types" that serve to take up space.  In Hermione's case I 
figured she'd be the uptight know-it-all.

> 4) Did you wonder at how Neville could so frequently lose his toad? 
Did 
> anyone at this point think up the popular theory that Neville is 
under a 
> memory charm?

No, I figured Neville was just passing through.

Marianne, who wishes there was a charm that would enable readers to 
relive the emotions they experienced the first time when re-reading 
beloved books....