Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 22: Owl Post Again

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike Crudele" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:

> 1.  Snape is raving mad and thinks Potter had a hand in Sirius's escape *before* Dumbledore drops the hints about "being in two places at once". Does Snape suspect time-turning was involved?
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Pat:
Having been a teacher, I always just assumed that something like a student having a time-turner due to his/her heavy load would be mentioned at a staff meeting before the year started. So I feel like this *is* a hint to Snape - and that this is why he was so certain that Harry was involved: Hermione, in addition to being one of his closest friends, was right there in the room with them. In his view, *of course* they were involved. With the time turner that Hermione had.

> 2. "Harry had the impression that Lupin wanted to leave as quickly as possible." Was he ashamed of himself in front of Dumbledore? Was this more evidence of his cowardice?
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Pat:
Like other posters, I too feel that Lupin had been there, seen the reactions before and didn't want get lynched. I also think it's fair, given some of his remarks later on, that he did feel shame and didn't want his cowardice to attach to Dumbledore any more than it already had.
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> 6.  Did you have any idea what could possibly have been Trelawney's "first" real prediction? Tell the truth now, did you have any inkling that it would turn out to be *the Prophesy* of all prophesies?
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Pat:
No! In fact, the first several times, the "second" prophecy thing just went right over my head! I guess I'm too used to Dumbledore knowing everything, too!
 
> 7. How did Dumbledore know James's nickname was Prongs? Did he know about the Marauder's Map?
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To me, it makes sense that the nicknames were well known, even if the map was not. Everyone seems to have no trouble knowing who Wormtail is, for example. I can totally see James yelling something to Padfoot, and Sirius responding to something Prongs had said. 
 
> 8. Disregarding the needs of the author for plot development, should Hermione have told Harry and Ron much earlier about the time-turner? If you were Hermione, would you have told the boys sooner?
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I think Hermione was still young enough to accept the word of an authority figure without question here. Besides, Harry and Ron did enough under the invisibility cloak - I also can imagine the things they would have wanted to do with a time-turner! 
 
> ~Mike~
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Thanks, Mike, for some thought-provoking questions. Enjoyed them!

Pat