Hermione, Dobby, Memories

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 34879

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Whirdy at a... wrote:
> In the interests of brevity:
> 
> 1.  Why were there no repercussions when Hermione tore a page out of > an old book in the CoS.

I don't exactly remember that situation, but I'm asuming it's from the 
book were they get the polyjuice potion (and the page torn out is, 
indeed, the polyjuice). If that is the case, I doubt that many people 
read those books. Being in the forbidden section, with it's special 
permisson and so on, Students never get the opportunity, and the staff 
either is uninterested (Filch), know they are there but have no need to 
use it (most teachers), or knows it by heart and doesn't need to read 
it anyway (Snape). Anyway, whatever the reason, I don't think anyone 
will read the book for quite some time (maybe years), and by then 
no-one will be able to do anything about it. Then again, it is possible 
(being Hermione involved), that they did the same trick to get the book 
out again and replaced the page (with their magical cello-tape, or 
whatever)

 
> 2.  How could Dobby disappear at the end of CoS when Hermione has 
> stated that apperating/disapperating cannot be done inside Hogwarts 
> (PoA)?

Elves seem to be an exception in the realm of magic. Their powers must 
be pretty powerful indeed, for what we've seen, and they don't follow 
any of the rules that come attached for humans: no latin, no wand, no 
limitations. They seem to be able to apparate and disparate at will, 
whatever the circumstances, have magic powerful enough to attract the 
MoM to Harry's house (when getting there is a major feat for a 
magician, if all that Mrs. Figg bussiness is true), etc. Lately I've 
got the feeling that elves want to be enslaved just to have someone 
tell them what to do with their amazing powers. Borrowing from 
spiderman (although I imagine that it is older than that), "With great 
power comes great responsability". If the elves don't want that 
responsability, maybe they placed themselves into thralldom in the 
first place to have someone else decide. (If you want the complete 
theory, read Tamuli, by D. Eddings. I borrowed this theory from the 
Atan race)
 
> 3.  Why does HP seem unsure of what is happening in the Pensieve,
> when he has spent time in Tom Riddle's memory - in the same vein are
> AD's memories edited to HP's consumption?

It's not the sort of thing that happens everyday, so at first he was a 
little bit confused. You never know what a mystirious vase glowing with 
white light can do to you, especially in the wizard world, so Harry 
could just have got himself into a teleporter, or something else. 
Anyway, he does understand it's memory, as in Riddle's book, after a 
while. I don't think the memories had been enited for Harry's pleasure 
(although they could be, it's the sort of thing Dumbledore would do), 
just the ones that better reflected what Harry was worried about at the 
time from the finite possibilities present in the pensieve.

Hope that helps

Grey Wolf