CHAPDISC: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 15, The Goblin

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No: HPFGUIDX 181865

I knew I missed a few

> Dananotdayna:
> 5. What – besides the corrosive effects of the Horcrux – could
> account for the paralysis created by Harry, Ron and Hermione
> not taking each other's instincts seriously?

FEAR. Till now there was always someone to give them advice,
back them up, keep them on the right path, patch them back
together but not this time. While the Horcrux did feed on
that fear it did not create it

> 6. If food is the first of five principal exemptions to Gamp's
> Law of Elemental Transfiguration, what could the other four
> exemptions be? And what could be the basis for these exemptions
> – the direct interaction between the element and the physical
> body of a human?

I can only think of 2. The first being gold. While we know a
philosopher's stone can make gold and the Elixer of life it
is rare. Perhaps the SS is the exception to the exception.
The second - Sentient life, a thinking creature. We have
seen wizards make Animals out of object but not whole people.

> 7. Can the Weasley's ability to provide ample food while still
> living in relative Wizarding poverty point to possibilities for
> the other four exemptions?  (Ever so much more intriguing than
> questions about the uses for dragons blood)

They had a vegetable patch, hogs and chickens. And they loved
each other. I think they are like most lower middle class
families - they did without but they never starved. They had
their priorities so most of the Galleons went to food

> 8. Did you, at Phineas Nigellus Black's revelation that
> Snape "punished" Ginny, Neville and Luna by sending them
> on a field trip with Hagrid, marvel at Harry still not
> grasping Snape's possible (probable? obvious?) loyalty
> towards Dumbledore's cause??? Why or why not?

Snape never showed interest in Hagrid and the Forbiddon Forest
is still dangerous, probably more so now that the Centaurs and
Giant spiders are not friendly with Hagrid. Even Ron worried
for Ginny. IMO I think Harry assumed Snape underestimated Hagrid

> 10. The brief mention of the exploits of my beloved "other
> trio" made me wish Rowling could have found a way to depart
> a bit more often from her Harry-centric narrative. Are there
> any other "off-camera" scenes you would wish you could have
> read?

Oh I would love a whole other book about what happened in the
Castle that year

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