CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 26: Seen and Unforeseen

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 112965

> > 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?
> 
> Potioncat who does know there is a difficult knot called the 
> Theodore Knot (also Fiodore Knot) and hopes his entire name isn't 
> Theodore Mark Evans Nott.

Carol:
Like Harry and Ron, she has at least two classes, Potions and Care of
Magical Creatures, with the Slytherins, and the Potions classes have
been going on for five years. Whether Hagrid has addressed Theo by
name or not (no pun intended), Snape almost certainly has, and
Hermione, being the observant person she is, almost certainly would
have noticed it. And as you say, she may have other classes with
Theo--arithmancy, maybe. I doubt that he'd take Muggle Studies. In
fact, she may have known his name since the Sorting Ceremony in their
first year, but simply not had a reason to mention it before. (As for
Ron and Harry not knowing him, it's amazing that they could be so
unobservant.)

Carol, who thinks that Theo is the Slytherin who saw the Thestral and
hopes we'll see more of him in Book 6 but that we won't be subjected
to *too* many puns on his name