What's annoying about Harry (WAS: Characters you hate)

[Tom Wall <thomasmwall@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51396

Grey Wolf wrote:
But my main point still holds: telling Dumbledore about the voice in 
the walls would've been useless.

I reply:
Hey, once you're convinced, you're convinced, eh? ;-)
That's okay, me too.  I guess we're going to have to 
agree to disagree on this one.


Grey Wolf wrote:
The people who really matter - Dumbledore 
and the heads of house - knew that the creature 
was a basilisk, and that the chamber existed 
(as you point out yourself on point three - 
or do you think that Dumbledore would've kept the 
information from Snape and mcGonagall?).

I reply:
I believe that canon suggests that McGonagall, 
at least, knew that the Chamber definitely existed 
from the continuation of the same quote I gave in 
point three. As for Snape, we can only assume.

But there is no canon to support that Dumbledore 
knew it was a basilisk.


Grey Wolf wrote:
And of course, I didn't say it was common knowledge - I said the 
teachers knew - probably because they had been briefed by Dumbledore, 
who *has* to know - as I said.

and Grey Wolf wrote:
There are many things that are never spelled out in the books, and 
nevertheless can be inferred without making big leaps of faith. 

I reply:
Yes, they can be inferred. But since an inference is not in canon, an 
inference doesn't hold. Unless you can support your inference with 
canon, which you're not doing. Canon does not tell us that Dumbledore 
knew it was a basilisk. Period.

As for Hagrid getting expelled, although we know that Aragog escaped, 
there is no canon to indicate how the decision was arrived at. I 
wonder how that worked out - there's no monster, Riddle says it was 
Hagrid, Dippet takes Riddle's word and expels the poor kid? Hmm.

-Tom