CHAPDISC: HBP5, An Excess of Phlegm

[alora67]

No: HPFGUIDX 144138

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Juli <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
>
>   CHAPTER DISCUSSIONS: 
>   Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 5,
>   An Excess of Phlegm
   Discussion Questions
    
>   2)     Mollywobbles. Anyone knows what it means? Not being 
English myself I haven't a clue about it.

I've always thought it was a take off from the term "mollycoddle", 
since she has so many children.  I figured Arthur just took it and 
made it an affectionate thing between the two of them. 
    
>   3)     Arthur's greatest ambition is to discover how planes stay 
on the air. Don't wizards and witches learn any physics at all? 
Don't they –Arthur & Co- know that there are muggle books that can 
easily explain the basic concepts of aerodynamics? 


I've always wondered why the wizard world didn't study more about 
muggles.  I would think that the kids at Hogwarts should study at 
least a year in a class that is all about muggles and muggle 
inventions.  


>   4)     What's with Fleur's comment of Gabrielle? (The one when 
she mentions Gabrielle has been talking non stop about Harry). Is it 
a sign of what we may see in book 7, a possible relationship between 
her and Harry? Maybe Gabrielle as a young Ginny?

Noooo, at least I hope not.  I just think Gabrielle is taken with 
the fact that it was the "boy who lived" that rescued her from the 
lake.  But then, that's probably how Ginny felt about Harry at 
first, a bit of infatuation with admiration. 
    
    7)     Why wasn't there a memorial, funeral, or wake for Sirius? 
I know there wasn't a body to bury, but still, those who loved him 
needed to say good-bye: they needed closure.

I know I needed closure, but maybe they don't do wakes in the wizard 
world? 


    
   8)     Do you think that Molly's clock with all its hands 
pointing towards mortal peril is a sign of what may happen in book 
7? Will we be seeing more than one Weasley death? Who do you think 
it will be? When reading this chapter I got flash-backs to Molly's 
bogart in Grimmauld Place. Will all her worst fears come true?
    
I think those hands will be at "mortal peril" until Voldemort is 
vanquished.  I think Percy, if he doesn't come to his senses and get 
on the right side, is doomed. Also, I have this irrational fear that 
Ginny will die and Harry will take it badly.  Maybe it will be what 
fuels him on to finish off Voldemort?  I don't know.  I can't see 
Ron being killed off.  

   9)     Why do you think Percy still won't come back home? He 
knows that Dumbledore & Co where telling the truth all along, is it 
because "people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong 
than being right"? Is it just a pride thing?

I think it's a pride thing!!
    
    
Alora :)