[HPforGrownups] Re: McGonagall the snoop (was: Owl to Arabella?)

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 50571


 
 gkjpo wrote:

<Malady579 at h...> wrote:
> cantoramy wrote:
> > I don't think that an owl wasn't making a delivery as much as
> > scouting out the Dursley's house so he could report back to the
> > other owls.  Everyone must have known that Harry was being taken
> > there, and since nobody had probably even heard of the Dursley's
> > before this, there was certainly major curiosity about them.

Me

It is also possible that the author didn't mean anything at all about that particular owl except just to show that there were owls flying messages all over the place.  It's possible that she didn't even consider any other implications concerning that owl although an owl right at the part without any reason would be an extremely minor logical error.
> 
> I am just curious why you think everyone knows where Harry is going?
> Dumbledore is surprised to find McGonagall there.  McGonagall.  His
> deputy mistress now.  Seems to me he trust her 

I don't find it so strange that McGonagall was not informed.  Even in 
GoF, she really seems to have no clue what is really going on in the 
end.  She was sent from the room specifically by Dumbledore to keep 
her from the knowledge of Sirius.  In general, she appears to be out 
of the loop.

Me

Actually Dumbledore seems to hold a great deal of information from EVERYBODY.  He's the only one who seems to totally understand what's going on.  It appears that he doles out his knowledge strictly on a "need to know" basis and that even includes his trusted people.  It's also not certain that she didn't know who the dog was already.  He may have simply sent her out because 1.  He needed her to do her task and 2.  There was no need to have her there.  Then again, it's possible she didn't know.  You can't tell with Dumbledore.  She wasn't surprised when he sent her out though.



I think, however, that from this (the owls swooping around), JKR 
would have us believe that there are a lot more wizarding/partial 
wizarding families out there and they are intermingled with the 
muggle population.  My question is this, though.  If wizards and 
muggles are largely intermingled (implied since Hogsmeade is the only 
fully wizard town in GB), how come none of the wizards knew how to 
dress like muggles at the World Cup? :)

I noticed that too!  I remember a reference somewhere (no idea where) to some wizzard who actually works in the muggle world.  I think it comes down to most wizzards seems to know very little about the muggles (when Harry compared the hoops in Quiddich to basketball when Woods was explaining the game to him, Wood's reply was, "What's that?" That includes those living close to muggles. They may live among them but their world is so totally alien to each othr and very little effort is made by most to learn or understand the muggle world.  However many wizzards and witches are very familiar with the muggle world. (Ms. Figg is)  So it's up to the individual it seems.  You would think they wouldn't be as ignorant of the muggles as so many of them are though, that's true.

Huggs Becky




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