OOP: More Flints

[Alon van Dam]

No: HPFGUIDX 62952

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Grey Wolf" <greywolf1 at j...> 
wrote:
> ~Marie Granger wrote:
> > First, what was Dennis Creevey doing in Hogsmeade in chapter 
> > sixteen?  Since he started to Hogwarts in GOF, he should only be 
in 
> > his second year now.  Harry and co. weren't allowed to visit 
> > Hogsmeade until their third year.  What gives?  
> 
> I always thought that, even with Filch checking, it would be easy 
to 
> smuggle people down to Hogsmeade if they really wanted to. Harry 
simply 
> didn't try because - as always - he failed to notice that some 
weekends 
> the Common Room was emptier than normally, and if he did, he had 
more 
> important things in mind than that and didn't ask (you know, first 
year 
> being bullied by Snape, and trying to find out about Flannel, and 
in 
> the second year being the suspected Heir of Slytherin).
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Grey Wolf, who thinks Marie might be onto something about those 
OWLs, 
> and thinks it's JKR's numberitis raising it's ugly head again.

Hmm, I actually thought both of Marie's points were valid. Especially 
with Umbridge watching, I think it would be very difficult to smuggle 
people to Hogsmeade who don't belong there. Also, considering the 
amount of trouble one gets in for illegally going to Hogsmeade - I 
can't really see Dennis Creevy jollily walking with the rest of the 
future DA... Though, on the other hand, it was a very large group. I 
think we're on to a FLINT, though.

As to the OWLs: It bothered me as well. I remember Bill and Percy 
getting 12 each and wondering how many classes they had to have 
taken. PoA shows that Hermione getting the Time-Turner was 
approximately the hardest thing to arrange ever, and I can't really 
see Bill living up to that kind of pressure. Also, I don't know, I 
always had the impression that Hermione (probably my favorite char.) 
was /really/ the smartest witch of her age and that she's something 
really special. If Bill and Percy managed to get 12 OWLs -which 
seemed to be a perfect score, or something- I always thought that 
Hermione would manage to get 14 or something...

My knuts again,
Alon