CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 26: Seen and Unforeseen

[twingles47]

No: HPFGUIDX 112933

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> sunnylove0 at a... wrote:
> >> >
> > Discussion Questions:>  
> > 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.  
> 
> Potioncat:
> It just hit me recently that it's interesting that it was Hermione 
> who knew Nott.  (Gad, what a pun that makes!) Of course, she seems 
> to know more people than Harry does.  It could be that a smart 
> Muggleborn learns who the Slytherins are.  Or it could be that she 
> has other classes with Theo, and interacts with him out of sight of 
> Harry and possibly Draco.  She doesn't say anything about Nott, and 
> I wonder what she knows about him?
> 
> Beth:
In a way, it's almost more interesting that the others don't know who 
he is--after all, they've had Care of Magical Creatures with the 
Slytherins since POA.   Are there any examples of students who've 
added electives they had missed in earlier years, or is the 
Slytherin/Gryffindor rift so deep that they haven't bothered to learn 
the names of classmates after three years in a class that seems to be 
maybe twenty or thirty people.  

Beth, hoping Theodore Nott turns out to be the "good Slytherin"