CoS chapters 6-10, post DH look

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 181183

> CoS:
> "If we hadn't married Muggles we'd've died out" - p.116
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Not that I really wish to get into that famous introduction about 
> Mudbloods, etc, but did he not meant to say muggle- borns here?

zgirnius:
I believe he said what he meant. Muggleborns occur when two Muggles 
carrying genes for magic but not expressing them, genes they 
inherited from magical ancestors, pass those genes on to their kids 
in a way that causes them to be expressed. They would thus result 
from Muggle/wizard relationships, at some point in the past. (Or 
Squib/Muggle). Nor are Muggle/Wizard relationships THAT rare in 
canon: the Snapes, Finnegans, and Riddles were such married couples 
(and if we include website backstory, so was the relationship that 
produced Dean Thomas).

> Alla:
> Wait a second. It seems to me that Hagrid can keep secrets very 
well 
> when he chooses to here. Um, don't you think that his talkativeness 
> in PS/SS may have been deliberate then?

zgirnius:
I think it is a little easier to keep one's own secret.

>  CoS:
> Dumbledore was giving Harry a searching look. His twinkling light 
> blue gaze made Harry feel as though he were being X-rayed.
> 
> Innocent till proven guilty, Severus," he said firmly" - p.144
 
> Alla:
> No, really? And here I thought you already read that he is innocent 
> Albus.

zgirnius:
I think both Severus and Albus were picking up that Harry was not 
telling them the whole truth here. So I don't think Albus was 
reading 'innocence' any more than Severus was. (I see no indication 
Severus believed Harry had Petrified the cat and hung it up, I think 
he suspected Harry of other, unknown misdeeds he was hoping to get to 
the bottom of). At one point Albus asks Harry if there is anything he 
wants Harrry to tell him - which I think shows he is picking up the 
same vibe as Severus.


> CoS:
> "Just because a wizard doesn't use Dark Magic doesn't mean he can't 
> Miss Pennyfeather," snapped Professor Binns." I repeat, if the 
likes 
> of Dumbledore-" - p.152
 
> Alla:
> Oh, and Miss Pennyfeather? Too funny that.

zgirnius:
What, you approve of teachers mocking their students in class?! ;)

> Alla:
> "But, Albus... surely... who?"
> "The question is not who," said Dumbledore, his eyes on 
Collin. "The 
> question is, how..." - p.181
> 
> Alla:
> This quote was underlined in my copy of CoS from past reading, that 
> means that I may have asked this question already, but I am still 
> unsure of answer.
> 
> So Dumbledore KNEW who opened the chamber? Oy.

zgirnius:
Surely that was not very helpful knowledge? A wizard who exists only 
in the form of vapor/spirit/whatever you want to call it, and is 
believed to be hanging about Albania, is the culprit. Yes, that 
explains everything! <g>