CHAPDISC: DH31, The Battle of Hogwarts

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 184628

 
> 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?

It is unreasonable to assume that there are no good Slytherins. But 
they are also the type who look out for themselves first. The chance 
to leave and avoid a battle probably has something to do with the 
herd mentality. Courage and loyalty are not their strong points.


> 
> 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?

People would only know if she or the Bloody Baron said something 
about her. Obviously they hadn't because she is only known as the 
Grey Lady.


> 
> 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?

I would suppose that regret would play a large part in her not 
showing it off. After she had stolen it, what then? If she shows off 
her knowledge, word of her would spread and her mother would find her.


> 
> 
> 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? Doesn't seem very likely to me.

She would have to be willing to tell the story. Dumbledore came to 
the school hundreds of years after it was stolen. The diadem had 
become part myth & legend by then. If she didn't tell anyone, who 
would know? 

> 
> 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.

Well we know he knew about the RoR, from the chamber pot story and I 
would guess he knew about Harry's DA. So I think you mean why didn't 
he find the room with all the junk that students wanted to hide. I 
would guess that he didn't find the RoR until after he was a teacher 
and by then, what could he possibly need to hide that he couldn't 
just vanish? If he wanted to just conceal something, he was more than 
talented enough to to put it in a trunk and spell it so no one could 
get into it.

 
> 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?

I was assuming they were still in the pot. 


> 
> 7.    Is it remotely believable that Ron could remember enough
> Parseltongue
> to enter the Chamber?

I think it's believable, but if she had shown him mimicing his 
brother's or others throughout the series it would have been better.

 
> 8.    If Harry truly loves Ginny, wouldn't he make more of an
> effort to
> stop her entering the battle?

With all that he has going on he doesn't have time to reason with or 
argue with her. He already knows she is stubborn. Plus, all of their 
friends are fighting so the argument wouldn't be very strong.


 
> 9.    Do we think Tonks appearance at the castle makes her a
> good wife or a
> bad mother?

It never even occurred to me until someone mentioned a while back. 
Remus is fighting, why shouldn't she?

 
> 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 Malfoy was in a no lose situation. He can see that the diadum 
is important to Harry, so it must also be important to Voldemort. He 
knows that Voldemort wants Harry alive. If they capture Harry and 
diadum and take them to Voldemort, his family's status is going to 
rise. If Harry wins there is no more Voldemort.

I think Draco was being the perfect slytherin. Playing both ends 
against the middle.



 
> 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?

I think Harry has calmed down some. He has found the diadum, he has 
backup to fight the DE's while he takes care of diadum and Nagini.

 
> 12.     Crabbe is a complete idiot – how could he manage to conjure
> such a
> devastating curse (Fiedfyre)?

Even a blind squirril.... 

I don't think the curse was hard, I think mastering the curse and 
controlling the fire is the hard part.

 
> 13.     Why, why, why did she have to kill Fred???

Well somebody else really close to Harry had to die. As much as I 
hoped it would be Percy (right after making amends) I figured it had 
to be one of the twins. 

Wasn't Fred the one who always gotter the "zinger" line in the joke? 
Maybe it had to be him because they had gotten through the war 
(didn't Harry say when he gave them the money that the world was 
gonna need some laughs, b/c he knew Voldemort was back) and the jokes 
weren't needed as badly. 

Jack-A-Roe