[HPforGrownups] Re: Inconsistencies in the DADA position

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 131716

On 30 Jun 2005 at 9:02, finwitch wrote:

> I ask you, why did the teachers' smiles become fixed when Dumbledore
> came about with the song?

Well, that's not at all surprising in my view, I think it's just a 
reflection of how long the dinner had gone on at that time. The 
teachers had hasd to sit through the sorting, the dinner (which 
lasted until everyone 'had eaten as much as they could' - even before 
desert arrived - and that seems to go on a while as well ('at last 
the puddings too disappeared'), and then threw Dumbledore talking - 
and just as it all seems to be over, and they can get out of there 
and get to bed... Dumbledore announces the school song is to be sung -
 that's the reason for the smiles becoming fixed - they just want to 
get out of there and go to bed! It seems to be pretty late - Harry is 
tired as he goes up to bed, and when they get to their room, he and 
the others are too tired to talk much - even allowing for the fact 
that 11 year old on a day of excitement like this might well get 
tired rather early, there are real indications that this meal does 
tend to go on quite a while. The teachers are simply bored - and 
trying not to show it.

Besides, anyone who has sat through a school song can tell you how 
boring that can be (not too bad if you get into the singing of it - 
but I can certainly remember assemblies that went on way too long...)


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