CoS chapters 6-10, post DH look

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No: HPFGUIDX 181168

Professor Mcgonagall's classes were always hard work, but today was 
especially difficult. Everything Harry had learned last year seemed 
to have leaked out of his head during the summer. He was supposed to 
be turning beetle into a button, but all he managed to do was to 
give his beetle a lot of exercise as it scuttled over the desktop 
avoiding his wand" - p.95

Alla:

Nothing new, just sympathise with forgetting material over the 
summer and find it hilarious that "he managed to give beetle a lot 
of exercise"


" Like I don't know. An' bangin' on about some banshee he banished. 
If one word of it was true, I'll eat my kettle" - p.115

Alla:

Looks like Hagrid was among those who knew that Lockhart is a fraud. 
Good for him if you ask me. :)

"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?


"Hagrid wasn't supposed to use magic. He had been expelled from 
Hogwarts in his third year, but Harry never found out why - any 
mention of the matter and Hagrid would clear his throat loudly and 
become mysteriously deaf until the subject was changed." - p.118


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?


"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.

"If a long succession of Hogwarts headmasters and headmistresses 
haven't found the thing-"
"But Professor," piped up Parvati Patil, "you'd probably have to use 
Dark magic to open it-"
"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 the Slytherin and his Chamber, but I am bringing up this quote 
for a different reason.

First - love how casually it is mentioned that women hold the 
Headmistresses positions. I am also wondering about just because 
wizard does not use dark powers does not mean he can't. Another hint 
that DD may have used them in the past? Or maybe it refers not only 
to Dumbledore? Oh, and Miss Pennyfeather? Too funny that.

"I can mend bones in a second - but growing them back-" - p. 174

Alla:

To me just another remainder of how different WW is in some aspects.


"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.