CHAPDISC: DH12, Magic is Might

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No: HPFGUIDX 180848

> Discussion Questions
> 
> 1. Were you surprised that the trio were apparating to Grimmauld
> Place on the top outside step and why?

Alla:

Not really.  Was Grimmauld place protected against apparition and I 
do not remember?

 
> 2. Harry says if Umbridge opened the locket it would make no
> difference, since she was so evil to start with; however she did 
wear
> it awhile.  Could its influence possibly have made her even more
> malevolent than in the past?


Alla:

Truly I think the level of her malevolence was already sooo high 
that it would not matter much. I guess I am with Harry.

 
> 3. Did you even think before we see the tidy kitchen that 
Kreacher's
> transformation and efforts to please would or could be so dramatic?

Alla:

Probably not, but I hate him too much and his transformation did not 
impress me too much. I think he has blood of Black brothers on his 
hands and I really wanted his head among those other elves.


> 
> 4. We find out Snape is the new Headmaster at Hogwarts.  Who else 
did
> you think might take this place?  Perhaps as Deputy Headmistress in
> the past it could have been McGonagall?

Alla:

I dreaded Snape becoming a Headmaster BUT after the war, you know? I 
sooo was hoping that Hogwarts kids will never be subjected to him. 
So when I learned that he was Headmaster already, I sort of had a 
feeling that he will not last long one way or another. And YAY he 
did not last long. 

Did I expect somebody else? Hmmm, I wanted Mcgonagall for sure, but 
I am not sure if I expected her to be too much.
> 5. Since Hermione got Phineas's picture off the wall, has she 
learned
> how to defeat the charms that keep other pictures from being 
removed
> or was Phineas's portrait not stuck to begin with?


Alla:

I will not be surprised if  Dumbledore unstuck the portrait for  
reasons known to him only.

 
> 7. There was concern over the painful scar Voldemort visions, about
> Voldemort invading Harry's mind.  Why didn't Voldemort ever try to
> invade Harry's mind?  Did the fact that Harry had a scar and that
> Voldemort presumably did not have anything to do with this?

Alla:

What do you mean he never did? After OOP I thought he pretty much 
gave up? Did you mean something different? And I am not sure I 
understand the last part of the question – the fact that Voldemort 
does not have a scar  is a reason he did not try to invade Harry's 
mind?


Thanks for the great questions