CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chamber of Secrets Chapter 17: The Heir of Slytherin

[AmanitaMuscaria]

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CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Chapter 17: The Heir of Slytherin

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nikkalmati" <puduhepa98 at ...> wrote:
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> I have always been a bit confused about what Dementors feed upon.  Happy thoughts drive them away, but they feed on sadness and make it spread?  Riddle does seem more like a Horcrux which identifies your weak points and magnifies your fears (rather than sadness).  How dark could Ginny's secrets have been at that age?

AmanitaMuscaria now - I suspect it's not the intrinsic darkness of the secrets, but the force of the emotion tied to the secret, and that could have been very strong and dark, indeed, at Ginny's age. 
I'd love to have seen Lockhart confronted by a Dementor; my suspicion is, it would have no effect, as Lockhart appears to be without guilt. 


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> > 6. Several times Riddle's expression is described as "hungry." Young
> > Severus's expression was described the same way in DH. What do you make of this?
 

AM now, Q6 & 7 - Tom is described as having a 'greedy' expression in the orphanage scene, but I must say Severus's 'hungry' expression when he looks at Lily in the playground gave me a chill. I can't remember Harry being described thus, except at the Dursleys, when he was literally hungry. So, Tom's greedy for power, Severus's hungry for acceptance, and Harry? 
 
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> > 7. Riddle comments on how similar he and Harry are. We can make several
> > comparisons: Harry and Tom; Severus and Tom; Severus and Harry. What is JKR up
> > to with this Trio?
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> Nikkalmati
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> > 8. What questions do you have?
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> Nikkalmati
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> Tom talks about Hagrid keeping werewolf cubs under his bed.  What does that mean?  Werewolves are humans who, ike Lupin, have human children, such as, Teddy.  Their children do not transform and they would be human most of the time in any case.  What was JKR thinking?
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> Nikkalmati
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AM now - Oh, this made me laugh!
Seriously, either JKR didn't think at all, or there's a sort of sliding scale of werewolfishness; Fenrir, after all, is not entirely human even when the moon is new, at least to me. Perhaps some werewolves never have a human phase? I think I'm being charitable though, and this is on a par with the varying Hogwarts population and other Flints.

AM