CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 8: Flight of the Fat Lady

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CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Chapter 8: Flight of the Fat Lady


Professor Lupin's becomes most people's favourite class. Potions is still among the least favourite. Hagrid appears to have lost his nerve, and is having the class look after Flobberworms. Harry is depressed about the Hogsmeade weekend coming up. Ron and Hermione are fighting about Crookshanks and Scabbers, Hermione upsets Lavender and others by doubting Professor Trelawney's prediction of bad news was actually a prediction Lavender's rabbit was going to die. The rest of the third years go to Hogsmeade, and Harry stays behind. He has tea and a chat with Lupin about not being allowed to face the Boggart, where Lupin explains he thought Harry's boggart would be Lord Voldemort. Harry is there when Snape delivers a smoking goblet to Lupin, admonishing him to drink it straight away. Snape seems very focused on Harry being present. Harry tries to warn Lupin about Snape, but Lupin ignores his hints and drinks the potion. When Ron and Hermione return, laden with sweets and stories for Harry, he tells them about the incident. They watch Lupin and Snape at the staff table, as well as the entertainment laid on by the ghosts. When everyone returns to Gryffindor tower to go to bed, there is a problem - no one can get in, as the painting of the Fat Lady is shredded. Peeves gleefully reveals to Dumbledore and McGonagall, Lupin and Snape, as well as all the students gathered there, that Sirius Black has attempted to get into the tower.
  

1) Do you think, considering that Harry is usually wrong about Professor Snape, that the 'Neville's boggart' story is why Snape seems so tense and angry these days?

2) Do you think Hagrid could have sought or accepted advice about teaching, and who from?

3)How do you imagine Hermione survived all those years in the girls' dorms?

4) What did you make of the interactions between Lupin and Snape?

5) Is Lupin's idea that Harry's boggart might be Lord Voldemort reasonable, considering Harry was just over a year old when he saw him?

6) Do you think Peeves might have had an amicable relationship with the Marauders, as later it's apparent he has with the Weasley twins, and might he have been present when Sirius was in the castle?

AmanitaMuscaria


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