[HPforGrownups] PS/SS Chapter Ten Summary and Questions

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In a message dated 28/10/2001 18:14:55 GMT Standard Time, fyregirl at cfl.rr.com 
writes:

<< 1. Do you think it is in this chapter that Malfoy decides Harry is 
 the bane of his existence and why or why not?

I think he decided when he couldn't get harry to shake his hand earlier in 
the book. Perhaps not bane of his existence so much as good person to wind up 
and take the mick out of for the hell of it, beacuse there's nothing better 
to do at break & lunch and in lessons that Gryffindor have with Slytherin, in 
the corridors between lessons etc...
 
 2. Where does Wood get a bunch of golf balls?  There is no mention of 
 wizards playing golf anywhere and he doesn't know about basketball, 
 why would he know about golf.
 
Maybe they weren't really golf balls, but it was from Harry's pov, and he 
thought they were golf balls... or maybe Golf is rife in the wizarding world 
as a way to keep ex now overwieght and out of condition Quidditch players 
busy, and retired older male wizards to spend their days when their wives get 
sick of them shadowing them everywhere beacuse they have nothing else to do.

 3. Why do you think Ron felt badly about what he said about 
 Hermione?  Is it one of those 3rd grade things … I like you so I'll 
 beat you up?
 
I think it might be the older brother syndrome. He has a little sister, and I 
would think at least some of the time, he bosses her around. I think he's 
young enough to have not hung about with girls much as mates, and so only 
really knows how to react to them as a little sister, and that's by being 
mean and horrible and finding it weird to be intentionally nice. 
I also think it was just that boys don't really like making girls cry, and he 
just felt horrible, un connected to his 
perhaps-not-yet-fully-realised-by-himself love for her. He is a nice boy 
after all and not someone like Draco who seems to delight in upsetting 
Hermione, but gladly, he got what was coming to him when she slapped him one 
(nice one Hermione :o))

 4. Prof. Quirrell tells Dumbledore about the troll and then faints.  
 If you were in his DADA class, would you really be able to respect 
 him as an authority on Dark Arts/Creatures anymore?

No. But I would have had my doubts when I smelt the garlic and heard the 
stuttering and noticed his pale face and generally scared demenour.
 
 5. Ron is able to perform the spell in the toilets he wasn't able to 
 perform in class.  Is this a case of `talent appears in stressful 
 situations' or just pure luck?
 
I think it's a bit like Harry and his Patronus. He knew he had to do it, so 
he did. Is that the same as Talent appears in stressful situations?

 6. Hermione has endured a lot of hurtful remarks and treatment from 
 Ron, why does she defend he and Harry?  
 
Because they saved her life, and Hermione, unlike Snape, is grateful for such 
an event, and wants to be sure that should it ever happen again, by showing 
gratitude (by lying to the teachers) they'll bail her out again. Also, she's 
nice, and she likes them both really.

Sara