[HPforGrownups] Re: It really annoys me ...

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 164104

 > Jeremiah:
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> If Professors are escorting their classes to other parts of the
castle then
> who is watching the students when they get to a classroom with a
professor
> who is escorting their previous class to another part of the
castle...

> SNIP
> As far as Ron and Harry going off to see Hermione with McGonagall's
> approval... I would think that McGonagall would be under the
impression that
> Harry and Ron are purebloods (though Harry really isn't, as we
realize
> through DD's discussions on the subject in subsequent books)>

Lilygale now:
Just a small point but - McGonagall knows that Harry at least is not
a pureblood. She watched his Muggle relatives disapprovingly ("the
worst sort of Muggles") while waiting for Dumbledore to bring Harry
to the Dursleys.

Also, I'm not sure why a pureblood would be any more or less likely
to be able to defend themselves than another witch or wizard. As
you pointed out, MgGonagall might have a soft spot for Hermione
*because* she is an intelligent and reasonably talented second-year
student. But Hermione is not a pureblood, which argues against her
thinking (Minerva's thinking, not Hermione's) that Ron or any other
pureblood would have greater competence against a Basilisk than
anyone else.

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Jeremiah:

You're right. McGonagall does know that Harry has Muggle blood in his family
line. However, your question about why a pure-blood would not be as big a
target... the threat written on the wall was towards "mudblodds" as Draco so
elequently points out. (The little git). And maybe McGonagal wasn't thinking
clearly. However, I do want to point out that Ron has an uncle that isn't
magical and nobody talks about him very much.

Ron aslo mentions that (I'm actually reading CoS right now) the magical
world would have died out if they hadn't married Muggles and in that vein
nearly everyone in the castle would be a "mudblood" if there were a
"Malfoy-Lexicon on the Wizarding World."

So, my point was Ron (and at the time I wrote the earlier post, Harry) would
not have been threatened according to the writing on the wall (ha ha). But
maybe Harry would be. But, then again, he is, at least, born from two
magical people and it's possible that would ahve been enough to "pass" as a
"more-pure-than-Hermione-and-Justin Finch-Fletchley." Since McGonagal
doesn't think in terms of "Half-Blood" Pure-Blood" and the "other" blood
mentioned above, she may think it ok.

But I do understand your confusion. Harry did face LV and Ron was with him
for most of that. It is possible that McGonagal felt they would be ok in the
middle of the day walking to see Hermione. (With a tear in he eye and a
sniffle, to boot).

(I'm almost to that part and when I re-read it you know I'm gonna read it
with a lot of scrutiny, now).


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