OOTP: Still Catching Up..

[mirely_r]

No: HPFGUIDX 67641

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katy Cartee" <rainbow at r...> 
wrote:
> Boy ya'll are a talkative group ;) I've been saving all of the 
digests since
> the release of OOTP and i'm still only on posts from Monday, June 
23rd! But
> i couldn't wait until reading the 4575 posts i've got left to post 
some more
> questions. So if someone else has already mentioned them, forgive 
me.
> 
> 1) What will happen to poor Buckbeak now? I wonder if Hagrid could 
have him
> back now that Macnair and Malfoy have been proven to be DEs?
> 
> 2) JKR went to the trouble of explaining Disillusionment Charms to 
us, but
> then couldn't let Sirius use that as a means of "stretching his 
legs" and
> getting out of that horrible house every once in awhile? C'mon!
> 
> 3) Looking back at POA, when Lupin introduced the DADA class to 
Bogarts -
> does anyone else find it odd that the thing that Nevil feared most 
was
> Snape? After all he's been through, it wasn't Bellatrix or his 
Gran...it was
> Snape. I wonder what horrible memories he could have of old 
Snivvelus from
> years past?

I would like to give my opinion about this.  Neville has sort of a 
low self esteem...at least up until POA and even through the next 
book.  Snape is just mean.  He was picked on while he was young and 
now has the power to do so now that he is older.  Neville is just an 
easy target and Snape always always picked on him probably more than 
Harry.  So there is no surprise why he would be afraid of Snape.  
Neville's grandmother is just critical and Bellatrix was a threat to 
his parents but she never did anything to him.  He probably never 
came in contact with her based on what was just written book 5.  
Neville does ok in all his courses except potions because he 
intimidated and that is because of Snape.
> 
> 4) Why wasn't the Minister of Magic aware of Harry's presence at 
the MOM
> sooner? He was using underage magic outside of Hogwarts all over 
the place!
> There should have been owls shooting around like fireworks!
> 
> 5) Will book #7 be the end of Slytherin house? I mean really, take 
your
> thoughts to the end of this series...the way it must end...no 
matter what
> else happens...Voldemort must be killed with no chance of return. 
Thus
> proving that he was, at one point, Tom Riddle...a Slytherin (most 
likely)
> who went extremely bad. And even if he wasn't a Slyth, he had the 
belief
> system of a Slyth. The last Heir of Slytherin will be gone and, by 
that
> point, people MUST realize how horrible and evil that belief 
system is. So
> WHY would Slytherin house be kept around at Hogwarts? If it is, 
another "Tom
> Riddle" could easily go down the same horrific path! And while i 
realize
> that evil can errupt out of the most innocent of places...why keep 
around a
> breeding ground for evil that could be easily destroyed?
> 

By the way...Voldermort was a Slytherin...explained in book 1 and 
then again in book 2.

> That's all the questions i have for the moment...i'll shoot out 
some replies
> soon :)
> 
> ~Katy~
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