[HPforGrownups] An Analysis of the Skirmish at Hogwarts with some Potentially Surprises

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 168085

Goddlefrood:
>
>  >huge snip by me<


'Someone's dead,' said Malfoy and his voice seemed to go up an
> octave as he said it. 'One of your people … I don't know who,
> it was dark … I stepped over the body … I was supposed to be
> waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got
> in the way …'


>another huge snip<

Goddlefrood who signs out by saying simply, and completely
> unrelatedly, that the code of the schoolyard is unwritten
> and informal and applies equally I any kind of school in
> the UK, afaik. It also means never sneak on anyone, no matter
> who they may be, if that was unclear, I thought it had been :)


montims:
in awe at a very thorough explanation of that particular period of time, and
leaving detailed analysis to those who are more knowledgeable than I...
I just wanted to pose a question and express agreement...

The question:  I am probably missing something (unlike a lot of you, I am
not rereading just now - I will wait till a month before DH, then reread
everything in a big rush, leading straight to DH, to get my immediate
impression.  But I love reading all the theories...) but how does
Malfoy know about the Order of the Phoenix?  Was this made public after LV's
return, or would he have been told by a member of the Order, ie Snape.  Or
Remus, if the other threads are correct?  Or yet another double agent?

And as for the school code, I don't know if it is still current - a lot of
other values seem to have vanished in the past couple of decades - but it
was certainly true when I was at school.  And not just regarding pupil's bad
actions.  I used to hang around with 2 other girls - we were known as a
trio in the school.  One of them (we were probably about 14) was suffering
badly because her parents were in the very unpleasant last throes of their
marriage, and in fact separated and later divorced very acrimoniously.  Her
school work was badly affected, as was ours, as we used to bunk off with her
and do a lot of sitting around and commiserating about parents.  All three
of us got into a fair bit of trouble for this.  When the divorce actually
happened, she was taken out of school for a while by her mother while she
moved them to another house.  Our form teacher then sought out me and my
other friend to ask us why we had never told her what was happening.  We
were honestly totally flabbergasted by the question, and in fact got
detention for our response, because it would never have occurred to us in a
million years to tell the teacher what was happening in our friend's private
life.  So I understand Harry very well...


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