CHAPTER DISCUSSION PS/SS 10, THE HALLOWEEN

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 188342

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

> 1.	Which sports rules did you find easier to understand: Quidditch or Baseball?

Geoff: 
No contest, Quidditch. It's even easier than cricket.
:-)

> 2.	What special circumstances about her getting Harry a broom did McGonagall share with Flitwick in your opinion?

Geoff:
I would imagine the same that she shared with Oliver Wood when 
she introduced him to Harry:

'"...we'll have to get him a decent broom, Professor - a Nimbus Two 
Thousand or a Cleansweep Seven, I'd say."

"I shall speak to Professor Dumbledore and see if we can't bend the 
the first-year rule. Heaven knows, we need a better team than last 
year. Flattened in that last match by Slytherin. I couldn't look Severus 
Snape in the face for weeks."'
(PS "The Midnight Duel" p.113 UK edition)

> 3.	We are shown Trevor zooming around the class in Charms, does that mean that kids' pets are allowed in the classrooms if kids so desire?

Geoff:
I don't think it depended on the kids. Canon is rather interesting:

'Even better, Professor Flitwick announced in Charms that he thought 
they were ready to start making objects fly, something they had all 
been dying to try since they'd seen him make Neville's toad zoom
around the classroom.'
(ibid. p.126)

This, to me, implies that perhaps he had invited someone to bring a 
pet and chosen Neville.

 
> 5.	Do you believe that fighting a troll could be a good start for great friendship?

Geoff:
Not necessarily, but in this case it did.

> 6.	When Ron hears Hermione scream after she is locked in with the Troll, he is described turning "pale as the Bloody Baron". What if anything does it mean to you?

Geoff:
Sounds like a variation on going "as white as a ghost" or "as white as a sheet".