CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 9: Grim Defeat

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> CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
> Chapter 9: Grim Defeat

> Questions:
> 
> 1. SNIP

Potioncat:
Afterall, this is Hogwarts. No supervision in the co-ed Houses either. SNIP

Karlijn:
While reading the series I always felt the `no boys able to go up the girls stairs' defence of Hogwarts plenty protection against those teenage raging hormones, probably because my own hormones didn't start acting up until I was in my late teens. And in a clear demonstration of my age – it is canon, isn't it , the stairs not allowing boys up to the girls dormitories ?


> 2. SNIP
Potioncat:
Sometimes it bothers me that we didn't hear of a head girl at this time (wasn't it Penelope?) or that we don't find out who the prefects are in Ginny's 4th year. But JKR's cast of characters is pretty long as it is.

Karlijn:
Of course these nameless students also provide all the fanfic-writers with plenty of scope to come up with their own OCs. 
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> 3. + 4. + 5.  SNIP

> 6. SNIP 
Potioncat:
You'd think that would have been developed years ago. Didn't James wear glasses--or is that movie contamination?

Karlijn:
Nope, in PS-chapter 12: the mirror of Erised, James is described as wearing glasses.

> 7.  + 8. SNIP 
Potioncat:
Thanks for the interesting questions. I'd like to add one
Snape knows DD trusts him in spite of his dark history. What do you think about Snape's dismissal of DD's trust of Lupin?

Karlijn:
Hadn't thought of that, good question ! To Snape, imho, Lupin (as well as Black, Pettigrew and both James and Harry Potter) could do nothing right.  Even in a complete AU where LV is not an issue, Snape would have carried around the teenage grudge he has against the marauders. Even DD's opinion on the subject cannot change his mind about that. It's the elephant-mindedness about him.