CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 23: Christmas On The Closed Ward

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 106922

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> Discussion Questions:
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> 1) When Harry thinks that he is a danger to others, why is his 
first  
> instinct to go back to Privet Drive?

Meri now: I think that Harry still believes to be a place seperate 
from the WW, despite the attack last summer. At this point, IIRC, 
Harry still believes that he was possessed by LV, and perhaps he 
thinks that the Durselys aren't important enough to bother with 
attacking by possessing Harry. 
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> 2) Why does Harry ask advice of no one, especially Sirius, whom he 
trusts  
> and has gone to before?

Meri: Because he's been kept in the dark for the last several months 
by DD, the one person whom Harry has always been able to trust for 
the truth. Also I think Harry is starting to think more independently 
in this book. For the first time he is trying to make descisions on 
his own. 

> 3) Why is neither the trio nor the healer suspicious of Bode's 
plant?

Meri: Why should they be? People in hospitals get plants and gifts in 
the mail all the time. 

> 4) Why does Alice give Neville the gum wrapper?  Is she starting 
to  
> recognize him?  Is there something strange about the gum, or is it 
all she  has to 
> give?

Meri: I don't know if the Longbottoms are ever going to be able to 
come out of their insanity, but I think that the bubblegum wrapper is 
a sign of something. But then again, according to Neville's gran, 
Alice has given Neville hundreds of them. So perhaps in her past 
Alice had an addiction to Droobles? 

Meri