[HPforGrownups] CHAPDISC: DH31, The Battle of Hogwarts

[Heather Hadden]

No: HPFGUIDX 184607

1. Is it believable that there are no good Slytherins? Wouldn't one or two of them remain to fight? Are they all totally unredeemable? Or is it just herd mentality i.e. one leaves they all leave?
 
I think it could be herd mentality. I don’t remember in canon any of the Slytherins doing anything that the others wouldn’t do. It seemed that they moved as one.

2. I would have thought that rumours of the ghosts pasts would definitely have been well known by all students. Bearing in mind that Harry and co. learn plenty about Nick, wouldn't someone from Ravenclaw have figured out about the Grey Lady and passed that information on?
 
Harry and Co learned a lot about Nick, yes. But he was THEIR house ghost. They never bothered to learn as much about the other house ghosts. They didn’t really care. And honestly, they didn’t learn all that much about Nick. They only knew about his death because he invited them to his deathday party and what they have learned was basically learned from guilt or more like not wanting to be rude and tell him that they didn’t care.

3. Why would Helena, who coveted her mother's cleverness, hide in a forest in Albania on obtaining the diadem? Wouldn't the whole reason for stealing the diadem be to demonstrate to others how clever you are?
 
Hmmmm….good question

4. How could Dumbledore not have found out that Helena stole the diadem? When you consider how difficult it was for him to get hold of the ring and help Harry obtain the fake locket, would he really not have found out information that resided in his own school? 
 
Why? He had no idea about what the other Horcruxes were. That was why he needed/wanted Harry’s help. A new set of eyes, a younger mind that can think outside of the box, etc. If he had any idea that the diadem could have been a horcrux, he would have probably done more research.

5. Would Dumbledore really never have found the Room of Requirement? He also fails to find the Chamber of Secrets? For such an omnipotent wizard, that seems two rather big failures.
 
I believe that he had found the RoR. He talked about a room full of toilets IIRC and I was lead to believe that was the RoR. It never turned into the room Harry saw because it was not what he was looking for.

6. Isn't it a bit reckless to rush through the castle with a bunch of mandrakes? Surely the commotion in the castle would aggravate them? Aren't they at risk of killing innocent students/teachers?
 
Desperate measures call for desperate acts.

7. Is it remotely believable that Ron could remember enough Parseltongue to enter the Chamber?
 
Sure. Harry said “open” in Parseltounge in the CoS and I am sure the story being recounted would have had that word. Plus Harry used the same word with the locket when he wanted it to open. So, yeah, Ron could have remembered it. Ron wasn’t dumb, just not motivated.

8. If Harry truly loves Ginny, wouldn't he make more of an effort to stop her entering the battle?
 
I think that he had more pressing issues to deal with at the time.

9. Do we think Tonks appearance at the castle makes her a good wife or a bad mother?
I think the fact that she made sure Teddy was with her mother, someone who would love him, and take care of him shows that she is a good mother. Showing up because a fight is going on, shows that she is a good Order member, and wanting to check on her husband shows that she is a good wife.

10. What is going through Malfoy's head in the Room of Requirement? Is he only concerned about delivering Harry to the Dark Lord alive? Or does he want his family freed from Voldemort's influence and realises Harry may be his only chance for freedom?
 
I think that it is a little bit of both. I think Malfoy truly believes that if he brought Harry to Voldemort, that his family would be safe. I do not think he would have gone through with it in the end, just like he couldn’t kill DD.

11. Why is Harry suddenly so reticent to use the Cruciatus curse? Crabbe is trying to kill his friends – wouldn't this anger Harry more than his previous attempts with this curse?
 
When he used the Cruciatus curse before, it was on known DEs and evil people. To Harry, he doesn’t see these boys as that evil, more like they are still the same boys who take pleasure in bullying him. 

12. Crabbe is a complete idiot – how could he manage to conjure such a devastating curse (Fiedfyre)?
 
As was said before, I think this was something that he really wanted to know how to do, so he learned it.

13. Why, why, why did she have to kill Fred???
 
Oh, how many of us has asked this same question????
 


      

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