CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 26: Seen and Unforeseen

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 112999

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> 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.  

<snip>

> 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.)

Geoff:
This suggestion doesn't open another conspiracy theory for me. When I 
was at school as a teenager, I was in a school of 500 boys. I 
obviously had a small group of friends with whom I hung around but 
outside that, there were school societies and you picked up names 
from other people in conversation, an example along the lines 
of "Well, X in class 4T is good at.."  "Who's X?"  "The guy othe 
there with the blond hair." And so you get to know who quite a number 
of other pupils are without actually knowing them as acquaintances.

I suspect that Harry and Ron might know students by sight or name 
whom Hermione didn't recognise.

Geoff
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