[HPforGrownups] Re: Red herrings

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 80402

In a message dated 9/9/2003 4:55:54 PM Central Standard Time, shokoono at gmx.de 
writes:

> I would even go so far to say that the first red herring (if I understand
> their meaning right...) was given in the first chapter of book one when
> Hagrid mentions Sirius (motorbike!)... why would he meet him at the
> destroyed house of the Potters if not to see if he can do something ... and
> if not he was a close mate of them...
> 

Red Herring = Something that draws attention away from the central issue.   
    
In that instance our attention wasn't really drawn away from the central 
issue.  I look at Crookshanks behavior towards Scammers as one though.  We are 
supposed to believe that he's behaving that way because that's the way cats 
behave towards rats.  We aren't supposed to suspect that something more might be a 
miss with Scabbers


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