CHAPDISC: HBP5, An Excess of Phlegm

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 144158

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>   Once inside the kitchen, Molly cooks a starved Harry some 
> delicious home-made dinner...
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Doesn't Molly ever do anything but cook and knit those ghastly 
sweaters? Much as I adore cooking, I am beginning to see why the poor 
lady is becoming the least little bit irritable.
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>   Discussion Questions
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>   1)     We don't see many people who call Dumbledore by his first 
> name. Minerva calls him Albus (PS/SS Ch 1), maybe Mad-Eye Moody 
> calls him Albus, perhaps also Fudge, but Molly? That's a first. 
> How close do you think the Members of the Order actually are? Molly
> calling him Albus makes me think that all of them see each other as 
> family, not only as colleagues. What do you think?
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What does Snape call him? In PoA.9, he addresses him as "Headmaster"; 
do they become less formal with one another as the books progress?
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>   2)     Mollywobbles. Anyone knows what it means? Not being 
> English myself I haven't a clue about it.
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I think it's a play on "collywobbles", a colloquial term for "stomach 
ache". I don't think it's particularly English; It's used fairly 
commonly in the U.S.
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>   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? 
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I'm extremely confused about where the Wizarding World draws the line 
on Muggle technology. The watershed seems to be somewhere in the 
vicinity of the internal combustion engine. That is, they seem able 
to handle things that wind up (wristwatches, e.g.) and nonmechanical 
items like golf balls, and they seem to drive cars when it suits 
them, without any very clear idea of how they work, but electricity 
is of the Great Unknown, and even gaslights seem to be outside their 
ken. The thing that puzzles me the most is their problem with 
clothing. You'd think all they'd have to do is go outside and have a 
look around; as the immortal Yogi said, "You can observe a lot by 
watching." But it doesn't seem to have occurred to them. I wonder if 
this is one of those coy little funnies children's authors go in for, 
that JKR inserted into the first book and subsequently allowed to get 
away from her.
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>   6)     We all know Tonks is seriously depressed. Is her 
> depression because she has lost a dear cousin, or because Remus 
> won't marry her? Or perhaps a bit of both. What do you think?
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Do we know that she was particularly close to Sirius? (I read OotP, 
but it was a long time ago, and I don't recall any telling 
interactions between them.
   
I think it's mainly Lupin. He seems to be having an effect on her 
patronus, which I should think means she's pretty wound up with him.

Oh heck, maybe she's got a crush on Snape too... >:D
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>   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?
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I think we're underestimating Percy. I wouldn't be the least bit 
surprised if he turns out to be working for the OotP, and is a plant 
at the MoM, keeping an eye on things and shunting information along 
to his father. He makes such a big deal of being a stuffed shirt, it 
could be an act. Well, couldn't it?
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>   Thanks to Penapart Elf for her help. I hope you all enjoy the 
> discussion
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>   Juli
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Thanks to you for putting it together! Great fun.

--La Gatta