PS/SS Chapter Eleven Summary and Questions

[M. Barnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 28335

Chapter Eleven – Quidditch

Heading into November we find the weather turning colder and 
Quidditch season quickly approaching.  The team has decided that 
Harry playing Seeker should be kept a secret, but as with any good 
secret, it leaks out.  Harry is quite glad to be friends with 
Hermione at this point as he needs all the help he can staying on top 
of his homework while juggling quidditch practice.  She also lends 
him a copy of Quidditch Through the Ages, from which he learns quite 
a bit about the history of his new sport.  The day before the match 
Harry, Ron and Hermione are standing in the courtyard, keeping warm 
with flames in a jar, provided by Hermione, which may or may not be 
legal.  Prof. Snape sees them and comes over.  They hide the flames, 
but Snape sees Harry's copy of QTTA and takes it away, as well as 
points from Gryffindor for having a book out of the library.  They 
notice Prof. Snape is limping and hope his leg hurts.

Later that evening, in the midst of doing homework, Harry decides to 
go and see if Prof. Snape will give him the book back.  He heads to 
the staff room where he discovers Mr. Filch wrapping Prof. Shape's 
rather mangled leg with bandages.  He overhears Snape wondering how 
you can keep an eye on all three heads at once.  As he tries to sneak 
back out, Snape catches him and orders him out when Harry requests 
the book back.  Harry hurries back to the common room to tell Ron and 
Hermione about what he saw.  Hermione defends Snape saying that no 
teacher would try and steal what Dumbledore was trying to protect.

The next morning brings a very not hungry Harry to the dining table.  
He is quite nervous about the match.  In the changing room Oliver 
Wood gives the Gryffindor team his usual pep talk and they head out 
to the pitch, where Harry finds quite a bit of support from 
Gryffindor.  The match begins and we are introduced to Lee Jordan's 
rather amusing commentary, occasionally edited by Prof. McGonagall.  
Hagrid comes up to watch with Ron and Hermione where they witness a 
foul from Slytherin against Harry.  In the air, Harry discovers his 
broom is not acting properly and he no longer has control over it.  
It seems to be trying to buck him off.  As the others notice this, 
Hagrid points out that nothing but `powerful Dark Magic' can 
interfere with a broomstick.  Hermione quickly scans the crowd and 
sees Snape with his eyes locked on Harry muttering under his breath.  
Hermione takes off toward Snape, knocking Prof. Quirrell over in the 
process.  She conjures a flame on Snapes robes and this forces him to 
break eye contact with Harry.  She scoops up the flames and heads 
back to her seat.  Harry speeds toward the ground and as he lands 
coughs, and the Golden Snitch pops out of his mouth.  Gryffindor are 
awarded the win, 170-60, despite protests from the Slytherin captain 
that Harry didn't catch it he nearly swallowed it.

Harry, meanwhile, is in Hagrid's hut being told what had happened.  
Hagrid asks what is going on and Harry tells him that Snape tried to 
steal what the three-headed dog was guarding on Hallowe'en.  Hagrid 
asks how they know about Fluffy, but doesn't get an answer because of 
their astonishment that a vicious three-headed dog is named Fluffy.  
Hagrid tells them the dog is his and he was lent to Dumbledore to 
protect something, but does not say what.  He tells the kids that it 
is top secret and they state that Snape is trying to steal it.  
Hagrid says that Snape, nor any other Hogwarts teacher, would try and 
steal it.  Hermione questions why Snape was just trying to kill 
Harry.  Hagrid is angry and says he doesn't know why Harry's broom 
would act like that, but Snape wouldn't try and kill a student.  
Harry, Ron and Hermione then learn a new piece of the puzzle as 
Hagrid tells to leave it alone because what Fluffy is guarding is 
between Dumbledore and Nicholas Flamel.

Questions

1. If you were brand new to the wizarding world and a brand new 
seeker and you read that the most serious quidditch accidents 
happened to people playing your position, would you reconsider 
playing?

2. Snape takes away points for having a library book "outside the 
school".  Wouldn't all the grounds be considered "the school"?  Is he 
just being mean?

3. If Snape took points away for a library book, why didn't he take 
points away for being in the staff room, especially when he saw what 
he did?

4. Earlier in the chapter, they decide that having flames in a jar 
wouldn't be allowed.  Why do they not have a problem with Hermione 
performing a charm to make paint flash?  Is it not the same kind of 
principle? (Wouldn't they be much more likely to be questioned in 
front of that many people than they would by themselves?)

5. For most sports events you have the announcers' booth with 
microphones and such, but we know they wouldn't work at Hogwarts.  
What does Lee Jordan use to commentate?  

6. Hermione gets to Snape and light her little fire.  He notices it 
and then she scoops it back up and leaves.  How does she do that?  
How does Snape notice he is on fire, but not notice Hermione 
crouching by his side?

7. What does a Golden Snitch taste like?

8. And a random question for anyone that has ever done a summary.  Do 
you use MS Word?  And if so, did you add all those words it didn't 
recognize?