CHAPDISC: DH6, THE GHOUL IN PYJAMAS

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 178711


Alla asked:
> 1.	What do you think of Molly's behavior towards the Trio in 
> this chapter?

Del replies:
Obviously annoying, but totally understandable. Molly, like everyone
else, just can't figure why there would be *anything* that Harry would
have to do "on his own" (ie with Ron and Hermione only), when there
are several able and talented wizards willing to help.  She also
doesn't understand why this whatever-it-is that HRH have to do should
take place *now*. Why couldn't they go back to Hogwarts and become
stronger, better wizards first? Compounded with her terrible fear of
her loved ones dying (remember her Boggart in OoP?), it's totally
understandable to me that she would do anything to prevent and/or
delay the departure of the Trio.

> 2.	Do you think Ron truly believed that Mad Eye may not be 
> dead? If not, why did he argue that?

Because the second strongest wizard he ever knew dying a month after
the first one is a bit too unsettling for him to consider?

> 3.	Did Arthur's explanation to Harry about why Grimmauld place 
> cannot be Order headquarters anymore strike you as consistent with 
> what we knew about how the Secret Keeper charm works prior to DH?

Not really, but I'm used to inconsistencies by now. More bothering to
me is the question of why they didn't simply perform a new Secret
Keeping charm?? Was DD the only one who could do one in the Order? Or
is there a rule that you can't perform two consecutive Secret Keeping
charms on the same secret? Or what??

> 5.	Ron and Hermione are committed to help Harry. What did you 
> think of the sacrifices they are making?

Hermione self-orphaning herself brought me to tears. Ethically, I was
a bit bothered by her manipulation of her parents' lives presumably
without their consent, but her erasing her own existence from their
memories, with the very real possibility that they would *never*
remember her again, was such a heart-wrenching sacrifice that it made
up for the manipulation for me.

> 6.	What were your thoughts on Hermione's explanations of 
> what "Horcrux is a complete opposite of a human being" means?  

I was a bit confused at first, but once I got it I liked it very much.
As for the remorse part, it so had "repentance" (the Christian
concept) written all over it, it made me roll my eyes and smile.

An additional comment:
> Hermione is trying to choose which books she will take with her and 
> which books she will not. Harry and Ron notice the book "The Darkest 
> Secrets of the Dark Art" and they are surprised where Hermione got 
> this book. She explains that right after DD's funeral she Accioed 
> Horcrux related books of his study. Harry and Ron are suitably 
> amazed.

My reaction was: yeah, right *rolls eyes* "Another one of those highly
implausible coincidences that we're just supposed to take in our
stride, heh, JKR?"

Del