CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 26: Seen and Unforeseen

[stbjohn2]

No: HPFGUIDX 112932

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, sunnylove0 at a... wrote:
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> 3)  How does Hermione know Theodore Nott?  We know from JKR that  
he is not 
> part of The Usual Gang of Idiots (Malfoy's), though from a DE  
family.  
>  
(First time post, so I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes). It 
seems to me a better question would be: why *don't* H and R know who 
Nott is? He's a Slytherin in their year, which means he's been taking 
Potions and CofMC, and perhaps other classes (can't remember which 
others might be joint classes), with them every week for 4 and a half 
years. This is another example of how Harry doesn't notice things 
that he has no interest in -- just like he doesn't notice that Ginny 
fancies him or that she has moved her interest on to other boys. 
It's probably also a sign that H&R aren't paying close attention in 
class (as if we hadn't already realized that). Hermione probably knew 
the name of every Slytherin in her year after the first week of 
school (first year), just by paying attention when role was called.
(And, as the mother of a boy, I'd have to say this may to be typical 
of males. My 8-year-old son can spend an entire week at daycamp 
playing with the same kid, and at the end of the week, the kid is 
still "my friend" and he has now idea what the child's name is.)

 
Sandy (who'd love to think of a cute name to use instead, but who's 
suffering from writer's block at the moment)