Convention,Clues,andCats

[ellejir]

No: HPFGUIDX 83346

Amanda wrote:
> From Granny Goodwitch's cat examples:
> 5) Hermione is accidently turned into a cat by the Polyjuice Potion
> (Book 2).  Remember a recent posting on the list stated that this
> was possibly the scene that JKR wouldn't allow to be edited out?
> <snip>
> 8)  Harry's vision of Hermione covered in fur during the Occumency
> lesson, yes, this was strange
> 
> I had thought that #8 was accessing a memory of #5. Hermione wasn't
> completely turned into a cat; she became more like what you'd see
> onstage at a production of "Cats," at least the way I had read it.
> Did you think it was (or meant) something else?
 

I read it the same way as Amanda did--I believe that Harry's vision 
during Occlumency of Hermione covered in fur was a memory of the 
Polyjuice-Potion-gone-awry incident from CoS.  But still I agree with 
Granny Goodwitch that it was strange.  That memory seemed out of 
place with the others in the same group (<shuffles feet in 
embarassment>...am at work without the book, but I seem to recall 
that the rest of his visions were of childhood humiliations, Cho's 
teary kiss, etc.)  Why was the memory of Hermione as a cat included 
with all that other embarassingly personal stuff?  (Frankly, 
Petrified!Hermione seems like a more disturbing memory to me than 
Furry!Hermione.)  Harry and Ron did not even seem to be too worried 
about the Hermione-as-a-cat incident at the time it occurred.  Why 
would Harry have buried that memory in his subconscious?  

Elle (staring into space, wondering *what it all means*....needs to 
snap out of it and get back to work!)