PoA chapters 4-6 post DH look

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No: HPFGUIDX 181427

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Zara" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:
>
> > Alla:
> > Consider me lazy – who was it Charley or Bill?
> 
> zgirnius:
> Bill. Charlie is the Quidditch star.

Alla:

LOLOLOL. And I misspelled Charlie too :-) But I knew that he was a 
Quidditch star, hehe. For some reason I got it into my head that he 
was Head Boy and Quidditch star as well.


> > Alla:
> > I also think that Molly's objection here sums up Dumbledore's 
> > thoughts of Harry not knowing in OOP and what Arthur says 
> undermines 
> > it soooo nicely. I do not want to make him miserable, I want to 
put 
> > him on guard. 
> 
> zgirnius:
> For all the good it did. <g>


Alla:

Well yeah, I was thinking whose mindset in regard to Harry I prefer, 
not the end result :-)

  
> > Alla:
> > maybe some people are given very short imprisonment 
> > terms, but I am just not seeing that too many people are 
released. 
> > IMO anyways.
> 
> zgirnius:
> We are told that a few months in Azkaban is the penalty for hexing 
> Muggles and resisting arrest - this is the punishment the Gaunts 
> receive for these crimes. Do you really believe this is a less 
common 
> crime in the Potterverse than the use of Unforgivables and service 
to 
> Dark Lords, the sorts of crimes for which we hear of life 
sentences 
> being handed out?
><SNIP>

Alla:

Well, no, not really. I mean I agree with you that there are short 
term sentences for less serious crimes. I guess what I was thinking 
is that people go mad in Azkaban really FAST. I always thought that 
Sirius' hanging in for twelve years was something really unusual.

I mean obviously Hagrid's sentence was not enough for him to go mad, 
but I am speculating that most people will be done after year or so  
and that brings us to Pippin's point.


Pippin:
Not too many *sane* people are released, perhaps. But we never hear 
of
people being kept in Azkaban *because* they've gone mad, do we? So 
the
mad people are released, to be cared for at home or at St. Mungo's, 
and
that explains the rumors.

Alla:

This is the saddest explanation but unfortunately the one I can buy 
most easily for the widespread rumors. I can see SOME people being 
released while still sane, but not enough to justify widespread 
rumors. Your scenario I can see.


>
> "He hardly heard what Professor McGonagall was telling them about
> Animagi (wizards who could transform at will into animals), and
> wasn't even watching when she transformed herself in front of their
> eyes into a tabby cat with spectacle markings around her eyes." –
> p.83-84
>
Potioncat:
One of the ways Harry is not like James.


Alla:

Not sure I understand. In what way this is Harry not being like 
James? That James would listen and learned how to become Animagi or 
something else?