Molly/SB, Snape's demise, Quirrell coveted stone himself, the room

[Dan Feeney]

No: HPFGUIDX 71566

Molly and Sirius (reply to a few)

I think Molly's response is a bit more complicated - her irritability 
i attribute to being away from The Barrow, to the fact of the war 
having begun, and of having placed, by her decision to take HP into 
her family, all of them in more peril than they would have been 
otherwise, as Percy's letter suggests to Ron. It was a necessary 
decision, laudable, don't get me wrong, but in a moment of fear, 
perhaps there was a tiny echo of guilt in Molly's helplessness at the 
boggart - I don't know how else to explain her failure to get rid of 
it. She seems rather a formidable witch, but the boggart no doubt 
would detect that echo of guilt, and the even more powerful shame it 
would make her feel - unjustified, yes, but I think it is there. Her 
fight with Sirius is just that - Black gives no quarter for the 
decision Molly has made - HIS life, however, was already forfeit. It 
sounds cruel but it's not, really. So, with this in mind, I found 
Molly's behaviour quite reasonable. It would be unethical of either 
her, or myself as reader, to deny this breadth of response from her, 
in facing the boggart. She sees HP dead after HP arrives in the room. 
BANG! There is the guilt, the echo, the unspoken "why did I do this?" 
That breadth of character makes her more attractive, not less. 
Because she CHOOSES to continue, and not fight her natural, or 
whatever, response.


Snape's demise (reply to Faith's Girl)

I had this ideaish thing a day or so ago. It went something like - 
Snape is tormented in HPs presence, who tragically waits too long, or 
some such, Snape is killed, and in grief at his own flaw, HP becomes 
almost helpless, but HG gets his attention, and points out the way, 
and is somehow hurt, or some such. This is where HP basically joins 
with Voldemort and forces him to feel, or whatever it is, the pre-
conscious ethic, or whatever that is. Does that make sense?

Quirrell coveted (reply to Nicolina)

Quirrell had learned that he should probably get the stone for 
himself (from Voldemort himself), so his vacillating was him thinking 
he could fix it so he got it instead of Voldemort.

The Room (reply to Claire et al)

I find it hard to think the "room" is a room and the "lock" a lock in 
a literal way. It almost reads as if a metaphor has been given 
physical substance. Odd, huh?