Chapter Discussion: Chamber of Secrets Chapter 10, The Rogue Bludger

[ZaraG]

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> Pippin:
> It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that looking through a camera would alter the killing effect  while looking through a pair of glasses wouldn't. But magic isn't supposed to make sense to us Muggle types. 

Zara:
While I agree about magic not having to make sense, in this instance it does. Most cameras have a viewfinder you put your eye next to to see the think you are shooting, and it is not directly behind the actual lens of the camera, it is above it. You still see the image that comes in through the lens because there are mirrors internal to the camera that bounce it up to the viewfinder for you to see. I am not sure this explanation is all that clear...here is a diagram I find makes this point clear:

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/camera-diagram4.gif

> > 7.  Harry thinks that McGonagall is just as puzzled as he is when Dumbledore said the more important question is how the Chamber is being opened.  Does Dumbledore know at this point that it would require the use of Parseltongue to open it?

Zara:
In Dumbledore's statement I always took his lack of undertsanding of "how" to mean, he knew it was Voldemort, and did not understand how this could be, given Voldemort was in a nearly dead, nonphysical state following the death of Quirrell.