JKR hints at secret

[sarah_haining]

No: HPFGUIDX 73923

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Fred Waldrop" 
<fredwaldrop at y...> wrote:
> What I found interesting was, Crabbe started to stand up, but 
Malfoy 
> grabbed his robe and made him sit back down.

Hey, resident lurker here who popped her head above the trenches to 
say that there could quite possibly be something to this theory. The 
only problem being that it's the wrong henchman :-) In PS/SS during 
one of the many confrontations between Harry/Ron and Malfoy et al 
Scabber's goes for Goyle and sinks his teeth into him, not letting 
go until he is flung agaisnt the train window. Being on the 
same 'side' you would wonder why Pettigrew would do this unless 
there was something more to Crabbe and or Goyle that we don't yet 
know? Just with Fred mentioning this it made more sense as to why 
Scabber's would attack a fellow Voldemort supporter (through family, 
anyway). Can anyone cite any other occasions like this? Maybe their 
is hope for the terrible two, after all!

In addition, I thought that another possibility for the 'non-
cuttable' scene could be Harry talking to the Sorting Hat? It is 
understandable that Steve Kloves would not think it terribly 
important to the plot as Dumbledore's speech deals with Harry's 
fears about his Slytherin tendencies and his connection with 
Voldemort; perhaps it was needed to reaffirm the whole 'it's our 
choices' angle of the story? Maybe the decisions of the Sorting Hat 
and the influence of the will of the person being sorted will be 
further revealed. Or am I waffling? ;-)

-Sarah