CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 22 - St. Mungo's Hospital

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 104699

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hebridean_black_dragn" 
<heretherebedragons at g...> wrote:
 
> Questions:
> 
> What are the implications of portrait people being able to move 
freely
> within their own portraits? Can each person appear in only one at 
any
> given time? In what other ways could this be useful to Harry, or 
the
> Order; conversely, how could this prove dangerous? 
> Do the images in the chocolate frog cards have this ability as 
well?
>
Meri: There has been, as we all know, speculation about whether or 
not DD's request not to be removed from the chocolate frog cards 
means anything or not, but I would guess that there is only one 
actual figure of the wizard or witch, and that sole figure moves 
between cards and portraits. There are of course, serious 
implications to that. If a member of the LeStrange or Malfoy family 
should inherit No. 12 Grimmauld, then they'll have a window into 
DD's office. 
 
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> Can Phineas, obviously a Slytherin and member of the Black family, 
be
> trusted?

Meri: I think so. Hey, maybe he's the good Slytherin that we've been 
waiting for all along! ;-) 

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> How might Fred's comment to Sirius ("I don't see you risking your
> neck!") have affected Sirius? Might this have contributed to 
Sirius'
> attitude and actions later in the book? 

Meri: I hope none at all. DD says that Sirius is a grown man and too 
old for insults from an old school rival to bother him, so I would 
hope that a comment spoken in the heat of a family crisis by an 
seventeen year old boy would not have any bearing whatever. 

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> Do the adults (and Moody in particular) really care about Harry as 
a
> person, or do they mostly see him as a pawn in the fight against
> Voldemort?
> 
> To what degree is Harry receiving (or *not* receiving) support from
> the adults in his life?

Meri: To take on both these questions, I would say that Harry is not 
recieving much support at all from the grownups in his life, and 
that that lack of support and information and such was what drove 
Harry to be ever so angry at the begining of Order, not some raging 
teenage hormones. One of the reasons that DD wanted Harry raised 
away from the WW was so that Harry would become more than just 
the "one with the power..." and now that that he is his own man, the 
adults in his life must accept that he's not just passive. He's got 
to be active or he'll go crazy and take people with him. Although I 
think that the list of adults who truly care about Harry is fairly 
short: Mr and Mrs Weasley, DD, McGonogall, Sirius, Lupin, Hagrid. 
That's about all. 

Meri