CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 2: Aunt Marge's Big Mistake

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 189416



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "AmanitaMuscaria" <amanitamuscaria1 at ...> wrote:
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> > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/189405
> > > AmanitaMuscaria: Why do you think JKR mirrored the scene of
> > > Snape having his trouser-leg in tatters and bloody from Fluffy
> > > in Philosophers Stone with Vernon rushing after Harry after he'd
> > > blown Marge up?
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> > Mike:
> > I had never thought of this parallel before. I suppose we should have noticed the disparity between the Vernon and Severus while she was drawing the parallel. Snape was acting selflessly trying to protect the Stone, and he sought nothing from Harry. Dursley was oblivious to his and his sister's maltreatment of Harry, and went blustering after Harry to fix his sister's predicament. Yet both of them were reluctant protectors of Harry, and both because they loved an Evans woman.

Pippin:
There's also a parallel between Fluffy's role and Ripper's. Ripper doesn't understand that Vernon is trying to help Marge, while Fluffy doesn't understand that Snape is trying to protect the stone.  This isn't the first time in the story, or the last, that efforts to help are misunderstood, and not only by canines.

Pippin