PS/SS chapters 6-11 post DH look

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 180971

> Alla:
> Hee, the infamous first potion lesson. No, it did not appear to me 
> in a new light all together, still hate what Snape did here, BUT I 
> have a question. Why doesn't he just say  "our celebrity"? Who was 
> celebrity before Harry, the old celebrity?

zgirnius:
Harry is new to the school. I do not believe there was any deeper 
meaning in the word, such as a contrast to an old celebrity. James 
was hardly in Harry's league, after all, just a popular boy and 
school sports star. Harry is "The Boy Who Lived", and enjoys fame far 
and wide, outside the school.

> Alla:
> Mmmm, do you think Harry since changed his POV and decided that 
> there are a great deal more interfering people in his life than 
> Hermione? 

zgirnius:
Yes, in a word. When a friend does it, it is no longer 'interfering'.

> PS/SS:
> "Hardly anyone had seen Harry play because Wood had decided that, 
as 
> their secret weapon, Harry should be kept, well, secret." - p.180.
 
> Alla:
> I know it is reference to Qudditch, but I cannot help but remember 
> that Harry as a secret weapon motive goes through OOP and cannot 
> help but read this line with it in mind as well.

zgirnius:
I'd say it goes further than that. He's still DD's 'secret weapon' in 
DH.