CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 4: The Leaky Cauldron

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CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Chapter 4: The Leaky Cauldron
 
1. Percy seems to have no sense of humor. Did you feel sorry for Percy at any point or just accept that he deserves to be teased?

Marianne:
He never had a sense of humor, except the last part of the DH, he struck me as no-nonse, go by the rules sort of person.  But he didn't deserve to constantly be teased.
 
2. Why does Crookshanks attack Scabbers on sight? Does he sense Scabbers is evil or just that he is not a rat?

Marianne:
I always thought he attacked Scabbers becuase he was a rat.  Cats, rats, not the best of combinations.
 
4. Harry, we are led to believe, has plenty of money and could afford anything he wants. Why is he so frugal? Is his frugality meant to be a sign of virtue, a good example to the readers?

Marianne:
I think he's frugal because he has only so much money to use, and perhaps he was thinking in advance of the rest of his years at Hogwarts.
 
6. Did you notice the strange fact that Scabbers was much too long-lived? What did you think it meant?

Marianne:

Having had pet rats myself, mine only lived an average of 2 or so years.  Three years was a ripe old age for a rat.  I thought maybe the Weasley's kept him alive by magic.  They wanted to keep him around for a while.  Well if you take LV out of the picture in the beginning, for many years Scabbers was a good pet to the Weasley's, considering he was a coward.  Or it never occurred to the Weasleys that he lived so long.  Having a busy household like the Weasley's probably nobody thought about how long rats lived. 
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> Please add any questions you may have.
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> Nikkalmati


Questions:  Would wizarding money accumulate interest.  If it did, perhaps that's why Harry would have so much money after sitting there for so many years.

Maybe I've asked this before.  I don't think it was explained how Scabbers ended up in the Weasley family.  Maybe they bought him.  Maybe he just appeared at the house one day, and the Weasleys figured he had good manners so he stayed????

Marianne