TR - DADA - Lost character - Trelawney - Bagman - CRAB - The in crowd

[mellienel2 at yahoo.com]

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> > JKR said that she killed off the Weasley cousin and then developed
>  the Rita Skeeter character more.  She said that she needed someone 
to
>  act as a conduit for information to leave Hogwarts.  Why?  This is
>  how parents find out that Hagrid is part giant.  Molly finds out 
that
>  Hermione is breaking Harry's heart (suppossedly) and Molly finds 
out
>  that Harry is competing.  Why were these things important enough 
that
>  they had to be conveyed or am I missing something?
> 
>snip<
> I'm betting it's Harry's supposed insanity/untrustworthiness.  
We've 
> already seen Fudge, who was quite a Harry fan up to the end of PoA, 
be 
> swayed by Rita's final article.  What might happen if lots of 
people 
> in the wizarding world start thinking Harry Potter has a screw 
loose 
> or is evil (a Parseltongue, you know), just when people need to 
unite 
> to fight V?

I really, really, really agree here. I think she's setting us up for 
a lot of things. Look how fast the school turns against Harry *any* 
time his trustworthiness is in doubt -- the losing points in P/SS, 
the Parselmouth business, etc. We weren't given much of a chance to 
react to taht 'disturbed and dangerous' article because so much 
happened right after it. But I'll bet any money in the days between 
the third task and Dumbledore's speech, a whole bunch of Slytherins 
and maybe even some Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs (though less of those, 
I imagine), have decided that Harry is indeed a dark wizard, or at 
least to be afraid of him. Some Gryffs, probably, too. Everyone's 
entering dark times -- and dark times are marked with bouts of 
needless panic, and blame-throwing. Combine all this with the 
Ministry's official stance that Voldy has not returned, and Harry, 
Dumbledore, all of the, are in for an uphill fight. This is why I 
think Fudge will last a while -- Voldy will want him there to keep 
telling people he's not really risen, and give him time to 'get a 
good hold.'


> > The Grim, tea leaves -- True
> > The Grim, crystal ball -- True
> 
> I'll give her a 50% on this one.  Harry hasn't been seeing a Grim.  
> Luke is right, we don't know the rules of tea leaves, but what we 
do 
> know about them indicates that they are symbolic.  Shouldn't a true 
> tea leaves reading turn up symbols of danger (because of Peter--and 
> the Grim doesn't count, because it is specifically a death omen) 
and 
> protection (because of Sirius)?

Or the Grim could just have been Sirius all along; it could show that 
there's a great black dog in Harry's life. :-) Except in the tea 
leaves, it WAS Sirius.

Come to think of it -- if Sirius looks so much like a Grim, does this 
make him a marked man for JKR?


> 
> One stereotype left over from high school that I have to surrender 
in 
> the face of HP is Jocks are Scary Bad People.  Harry, sweet Harry, 
is 
> undeniably a jock.


So funny, I never thought of harry as a jock. But --  yeah, he is 
one, and by all rights, and by high school standards, I should hate 
him! :-) BUt he's a skinny jock, so that's a little different. He 
doesn't go around showing girls his bludger, er, muscles.