[HPforGrownups] Chamber of Secrets - The Unexplained

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 108279


--- fiondavhar <enigma_only at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 1) The scorch marks on the floor after the first attack.

Good catch!  Interesting point.


> 2) Aragog's blindness.

Aragog is old. Blindness is a way of showing age in a creature that
otherwise might not be much different from other adult creatures
younger than itself.

 
> 3) Tom Riddle's "bravery".
 
Not brave as in courageously standing up to basilisks or the like but
brave in the sense of not being down about his lack of parents or his
poverty or living in a muggle orphanage.  He didn't whine or complain
but did that British "stiff upper lip" thing.  


 
> 4) The use of the word "ancestor" as opposed to "descendant" in 
> regards to Riddle and Slytherin, in Harry's conversation with 
> Dumbledore.
> 
> - On page 245 of the Canadian soft-cover edition, Dumbledore tells 
> Harry that Voldemort is the last remaining ancestor of Salazar 
> Slytherin. The last remaining ANCESTOR. Not DESCENDANT. Is this a 
> flint? Or could there be some strange reversal of time at work? 
> Because, of course, an ancestor is someone you are descended from -
> so Tom should be Slytherin's DESCENDANT, not his ancestor. Hmmm.

> Bonny


Actually, in the 19th century (where the wizarding world seems to be
stuck half the time and when Dumbledore was born), the word
"ancestor" could be used in place of "descendent".  It's used that
way in some novels.  So no, it's not a flint.

Magda



		
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