[HPforGrownups] CHAPTER DISCUSSIONS: Luna Lovegood, Chapter 10

[KT Waters]

No: HPFGUIDX 86201


Jadeau: (me) xxx:

Okay I am sorry if you have discussed this Chapter before, but I would like to go through it. 

Firstly, on the first page, we find out that Ginny fell down the stairs and Molly yells that they could have done her a serious injury. This indicates that they didn't. Why then, does Harry still ask if she is okay? Perhaps he cares about her.... in some other way???? There are more things indicating this rather than just the one i have pointed out, but in other chapters.

Also, I found it off-putting the way Harry jokes about Voldemort, like on page 164 (UK edition) "I thought Voldemort was supposed to be lying low, or are you telling me he's going to jump out from behind a dustbin and try and do me in?"

People have died because of Voldemort, it appears Harry does think he is better then everyone - as Lupin, Bellatrix, Snape and even Malfoy have suggested.

Thirdly, Mrs Black shouts "MUDBLOODS" and "WEREWOLVES" quite frequently. How, may I ask, does she know Lupin is a werewolf and Hermione is a mudblood? Is there some way of telling, there must be, Malfoy mentioned it in GOF when they went into the woods didn't he? Can someone explain what it is?

On page 166 (UK edition) Moody says "I'll be reporting Stugis to Dumbledore, that's the second time he's not turned up in a week."

Is this because he has been arrested? Was it that early on? I thought the report didn't come out for ages? 

Also on that page, Fred says he has business to discuss with Lee. I would have presumed that this 'business' was to do with the Joke Shop? but Lee wasn't part of it, so what business is it?

I found it strange, that it appears in nearly every book, the carriages all seem to be full but one. In the first book Harry and Ron were alone in their compartment, in the third book it was just Lupin with them - I can't remember the 4th - and in the 5th book it is just Luna. 

Neville says, on page 168 "i'm nobody." Is there a reason? Does he think of himself as nobody or does he just not want to be known?

Cho comes into the compartment, by herself, and I do think she jumps around a bit. It has been what - two months? - since Cedric died and she already appears to be chasing Harry. So if she liked him all along, why was it so easy for her to stop liking him and fall out? She is really weird, that girl.

I also got the impression that Luna perhaps fancies Ron. She laughed at his joke, a lot and she calls him Ronald, whic perhaps means something? She also seems to be looking at him on at least two occasions if I remember correctly.

Someone made a point a while ago, that they thought Stubby Boardman is Regulus Black. I agree. All evidence appears to point this way. He is obviously not Sirius, and anyway, Sirius would not know for certain that Regulus was dead, he didn't go to his funeral. He was in Azkaban 15 years ago, wasn't he?

The bit about Fudge, I believe was put in to make the Quibbler sound incredulous, when really the Black as he's painted story may have some relevance - or Rowling would not have mentioned it at all.

Jadeau xxx


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