13 to a table defense - Ginny was the first to rise

[Mark]

No: HPFGUIDX 78264


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "drago9nine" 
<dragonlet9 at e...> 
> >...right before Sirius stands up, I believe 
> > we see Ginny sitting on the floor playing with Crookshanks.  
> Doesn't 
> > that mean she had to have gotten up from the table before Sirius 
> > stands?
> > 

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote in reply:
> Good catch - pg. 87 US edition "Ginny, who had lured Crookshanks 
out 
> from under the dresser, was sitting cross-legged on the floor..."
> 
> This is right before the argument about what Harry should be told 
> regarding the Order.  

If I understand this argument, it's that Ginny must have gotten up 
from the table in order to sit on the floor with Crookshanks?   I 
don't buy that because we don't know when Molly sits down (during 
dinner she was serving, it would seem).

The question in my mind is "is sitting on the floor sitting "at" the 
table"?   If not, then Sirius's standing up didn't really mean 
anything (it could have been a red herring).

If it is, it would explain the strange exchange where when Sirius 
stands up, Someone tells him sharply to sit down, and then molly was 
trembling and Sirius was "White".  Why was Molly trembling?  Was she 
truly afraid of Sirius?   I see no other evidence. 

Now Whiteness is normally a reaction from fear - he was angry before 
(red face), was he fearful because he lost his temper or because he 
broke a taboo?  

Mark