CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 13: Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 189965

> June:
> The question that was asked was Harry is still letting thoughts
> of the Grim bother him. Is he right in thinking that the creature
> exists or were the various apparent sightings just coincidences or
> products of his over-excited imagination? It said nothing about
> before we find out the truth. Therefore my answer is correct there
> was (and in my opinion there is no such thing as) a Grim.

> Geoff:
I think that both questions and tenses are admissible. My question,
in the present tense is looking at Harry's POV in the situation
involved whereas we, as external observers, are permitted to pose
the question in a more general context.

June, your last sentence appears to be contradictory at first
reading. You appear to be saying on the one hand:
Therefore my answer is correct there was a Grim.

and on the other:
In my opinion there is no such thing as a Grim.

> Can you expand on that please?


June:
There is nothing contradictory about it. How many people in rl have
told you they saw a Grim? If you believe in them that is ok you may
but I do not believe them to exist and that is my opinion and I am
entitled to it. And as for Harry there never was a Grim as I have
stated above and if you want to go back to the point of the book
where we did not know the truth about it either, I thought there
had to be another answer to it (although I was going on the thought
that in my head he would survive and kill Voldemort because he had
to kill Voldemort) so never in the book did I think there was a
grim and in rl I do not believe in grims.