PS/SS chapters 6-11 post DH look

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181005

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:

> For myself, I like to think that the twins figured it out in their 
> first year. But I wouldn't put it past them to have discovered 
> several of the secret passages before that. When they say "in our 
> first week", do you think they meant their first week of school? 
> Cuz that's what I thought they were saying.


zanooda:

Oh, I don't know about Alla :-), but I personally thought they 
meant "the first week of this (third) school year". If "our first 
week" can mean "the first week of school in our first year", then 
there is no problem at all - the twins could do it all in their first 
year (finding some passages by themselves, then steeling the map, 
then making it work).


> Mike wrote:

> I wanted to add that in these chapters we got our first Sorting Hat 
> song. 


zanooda:

That reminds me: when I read this chapter, I could never understand  
how Ron could *not* know about the Sorting Hat and the Sorting 
ceremony. Come on! This is so unrealistic! The boy is from an old 
wizarding family, where everyone went to Hogwarts, and he has no idea 
how the new students are Sorted? 

I can believe that the Twins wouldn't tell him (just to mess with 
him :-), but Percy certainly *would* tell, and so would (and should) 
Molly and Arthur. I understand that JKR wanted Harry (and us :-) to 
be surprised, but couldn't Harry just *not* ask Ron about the 
Sorting, so that Ron didn't have to give such a strange answer :-)?