[HPforGrownups] Observations and Questions

[Snyder, Meri]

No: HPFGUIDX 25528

Here is my two cents for some of your questions

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SS/PS Ch.5
Hagrid says "There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in
Slytherin".
Rephrased, that's "Every witch/wizard who became evil was in Slytherin."
But we know that's simply not true. Whether you take it from Hagrid's
perspective or from the truth, there's at least one evil wizard from
Gryffindor (Sirius Black or Peter Pettigrew). So why did Hagrid say that?
I'm guessing that JKR didn't have the plot of Book 3 planned out at this
point.

	I agree with several of the other replys that say that this is just
a Hagrid generalization.  The reason why JKR's 	writing is so appealing is
because it is so real.  Who, in their real life, doesn't make
generalizations?  


CoS (General)
The only note I made about this book is "Why is Snape so friendly with Draco
Malfoy, and vice versa?"
Lucius must hate Snape for betraying Voldemort, and he's on that board that
controls the school, so there's a very good chance that he knows Snape
teaches there. Perhaps Lucius hasn't told his son about Snape.
But that still doesn't explain why Snape likes Draco and is so lenient with
him.
	
	We like those who remind us of ourselves.  Maybe Malfoy reminds
Snape of a younger version of himself.  Also, we don't 	know how much
Lucious reveals to his son.  If Lucious did suspect Snape, maybe he never
shared this with his son.  	Furthermore, do we know that he even
suspected Snape before the meeting of the Death Eaters in GoF?  Maybe,
nobody knew
	that snape was a spy.  Maybe Lucious just thought that he lied his
way back into society just like him.

PoA Ch.3
Dementors seem to literally suck the happiness out of an area. Silly
question, but what's their range, anyway?
	
	Don't know, but it doesn't seem to be that long.

PoA Ch.10
"Dementors are supposed to drain a wizard of his powers if he is left with
them too long" -Lupin
This implies that Voldemort's supporters, who have been in Azkaban for quite
a while, may not be very useful when Voldemort frees them.
	
	Yes, but it might be reversable.  

PoA Ch.10
I know, it's been mentioned before, but how *did* Filch get the Marauder's
Map?
	
	He took it way from James, Lupin, Sirius, and Peter.  Recall in PoA
that Lupin say that he happens to know that this 	map was confiscated
several years ago (paraphrasing).  How did he know?  He was there.


PoA Ch.11
The Sneakoscope goes off when Crookshanks is chasing Scabbers. It's probably
safe to assume that Scabbers/Wormtail is the untrustworthy one.
	
	Yes, I think you are right.

GoF Ch.25
This isn't the first time that someone has waited outside the Gryffindor
common room to let Harry out at night. So if the portrait can't be opened
from the inside, how the heck do they get out in the morning?

	I agree with the previous posts.  All those times somebody waited
for him was when he was wearing is invisibility 	cloak.  They opened
the door so he could sneak through undetected.




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