[HPforGrownups] The Clock Says 'Mortal Peril'....ooowww my stomach hurts.

[yr awen]

No: HPFGUIDX 42801

bboy_mn said:

Certainly, Rowlings doesn't just throw bits and pieces into her story
at random. It seems like every little detail is meticulously research
and meticulously placed in the story, so certainly, the clock location
for 'Mortal Peril' will be seen again.<<<<<

You know, the first time I saw the 'mortal peril' thing, I thought it was sort of funny. It was only after I finished GoF and started seriously thinking about the series that I saw it as being potentially a bad thing. 'Bad' in the sense of 'it wasn't mentioned to be funny.'

Two Questions (bboy posed):
1.) Will Mrs. Weasley have Harry's name added to the clock? <<<<<

I could definitely see that happening -- she's certainly a strong mother figure for Harry, and considers him like a son.

2.) When you buy a clock like that, at first, it seems pretty cool,
but if you are Mrs. Weasley sitting at home night after night staring
at the clock, just waiting for one of the hands to move to 'mortal
peril', I would think it would drive you nuts.<<<<<<

I've given thought to this (and have written fanfic on it), and I have to say that the image of Molly sitting in a darkened room staring at the clock and watching a hand or hands -- and, for all we know, maybe all the hands, if the Burrow was directly threatened -- is pretty powerful.

bboy:
Then, how nuts is she going to get when one of the hands does move to
'moral peril'. She home alone, everyone is off at school or off
fighting the war, and see is sitting there watching the hands of all
her loved ones moving to mortal peril, and his helpless to do
anything.<<<<<

I've always wondered if the clock displayed the several times Ron has been in mortal peril: the trip through the third floor room to get the Stone; being trapped in a cave-in in the Chamber of Secrets, of all places (not to mention Ginny here, too! That *has* to count as mortal peril); being ostensibly dragged off by Sirius Black... If the clock was doing anything during those times, I think I would have had a coronary.

HF.

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