Inferi (was Re: CHAPDISC: HBP21, The Unknowable Room

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No: HPFGUIDX 158861


> 
> Quick_Silver:
> Actually it's Harry who first brings up the fact that ghosts are 
> transparent not Snape. Snape then proceeds to mention it twice in 
> what, as I read it at least, reads as a mocking voice.

Potioncat:
Yeah, that's right. But why did JKR tell us so many times that ghosts 
are transparent? And why did Snape ask the difference between ghosts 
and Inferi? They don't seem anything alike.

> Quick Silver:
 Harry states the 
> simplest difference between ghosts and Inferius, that ghost's are 
> transparent, whereas Snape states a more "intellectual" answer that 
> includes the definitions of ghost and Inferius.
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So it highlights the fact that there's been a shift in the 
> classroom dynamics of the feud between Snape and Harry...Snape is 
> now challenging Harry in a class that Harry is good at.


Potioncat:
That's a good point. Many of us were interested in how a DADA class 
between Harry and Snape would play out. Do you mean, that even though 
Harry is good at DADA, Snape is still able to challenge him? That is, 
make the course challenging?

In Post 158820 Ceridwen wrote:
 Maybe it's the same in all
classes, only we haven't had a reason to see that. This was a topic
in the news, and the students will possibly be wondering about it.

Potioncat:
The only other time I can remember a student asking a question about 
something not related to class was in Binns's class when Hermione 
asked about the Chamber of Secrets. (I do have that right, don't I? 
It was Hermione and Binns?) I'm still a little surprised that Seamus 
was comfortable enough with Snape to ask. 


Ceridwen:
Interesting that the previous lesson was on resisting the Imperius.
Aren't Inferi animated to do a wizard's will, much like Imperius
forces the living to do another's bidding?


Potioncat:
Good point. It even sounds alike. Imperius/Inferius. So, why didn't 
Snape highlight the differences between controlling a live wizard and 
a dead one?

And I agree with whoever said it---seeing a Inferius!DD would be 
devastating.