More random musings on HBP.

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 141174

A refreshing reread of HBP I began today has me brimming with quite a
few random thoughts and musings, that I know we haven't explored very
thoroughly, or at all, yet.

1. Yet again Petunia has an odd reaction to the mention of Lily's
Blood Protection. While Vernon, clearly put out by what he percieves
to be the impudence of Dumbledore making plans for his Household,
Petunia OTOH, looks oddly flushed.

2. Dumbledore explains the backstory of Horace Slughorn rather
extensively for us. One thing that stood out for me this read was his
mentioning that Sluggy always had a knack for choosing students that
became outstanding in their respective fields. It made me wonder what
clues we might have been given by Horace's intuitive abilities in
choosing his Slug Club members. 

Although Harry observes that Horace seems to have a taste for famous 
connections, I can't help but want to take DD at his word also. What
is Blaise Zabini's field, and was Harry misreading Sluggy's interest
in Neville Longbottom? Other names in the Slug Club are Marcus Belby,
Cormac McClaggen (?whatever could be good about him?), and Hermione
and Ginny whom we already know have respective uniqueness and
exception to the ordinary. 

3. When Dumbledore is discussing the Prophecy with Harry, DD
unexpectedly insists that Harry share it with Hermione and Ron,
mentioning that it would be disservice to them if he kept it to
himself. Voldemort and Dumbledore (and probably Snape) have applied
interpretation to the prophecy, all three are exceptionally
intelligent wizards, I do believe that we are expected to count
Hermione in league with these three in measures of intellect.
It is Hermione who cracks Snapes Logic Puzzle, and like Snape,
Hermione is another canon character who has invented a hex, and like
all three, has modified existing spells to suit her purposes. 

In a recent thread, someone mentioned that Hermiones hex could be
classified dark under some suggested criteria, which makes sense to
me. Hermione's sneak hex was at least borderlining Dark Magic, which
draws an interesting likeness between her and Snape. 

So back to the point, I do believe Dumbledores suggestion is his
gentle way of passing the Prophecy to Hermione, whom he is quite sure,
can uncover it's mysteries without any help. It gives him one less
urgent task to accomplish before bedtime so to speak. :D

4. Dumbledore makes another interesting demand of Harry before he
leaves, he tells Harry to keep his invisibilty clok t all times with
him, just in case. This is of course a form of protection for Harry in
the simplest sense, but I do wonder to what other end Dumbldore
imagines he cloak will be useful for, if Harry uses it 'wisely'.


Any Takers?

Valky
Apologies if this turns up twice YahooMort is risen today.