Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 20: The Dementor's kiss

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190776

> Questions:
> 1. I wrote this over a month ago, so why did my computer crash
> with my original and brilliant chapter discussion blown to
> cyberbits?

June:
Because that is what computers do :P

> 2.If things had worked out--if they could have delivered Pettigrew
> to DD, do you think it would have been a good idea for Harry to
> live with Sirius?

June:
No, I do not and for one reason only. Turning in Pettigrew would not
have stopped Voldemort from returning but just delay it again. I
believe (and I am sure Dumbledore would have agreed) that horrible
as it was for Harry the best thing for him, would have been to go
back to his aunt and uncle because that is where his protection was.
As long as he called their home, his home he was safe. Howver that
being said, there is no reason he could not spend a few weeks at his
aunt and uncles, then gone to Sirius' to  finish the summer as he
did with the Weasleys.

> 3.Harry quickly decided he couldn't do anything for Ron and that
> Sirius was in trouble, so he went to Sirius. Why did Hermione
> leave Ron?

June:
I think she was of the same mind as Harry at that point and was
concerned about Sirius and Harry.

> 4. Harry sees the silvery light as a galloping animal, as bright
> as a unicorn yet not clearly enough to make it out. Why did JKR
> keep the stag Patronus from us and Harry? What harm would there
> have been in telling or what advantage was there in JKR's keeping
> it secret?

June:
There was more drama at that point in none of us knowing and made us
think and wonder ourselves what it could be.

> 5. Who did you think the person across the lake was?

June:
Honestly, I did not know what to think at first. I did not think it
was James but when I set down my book and thought it over I started
to think that maybe it was Snape.

> 6. We follow Harry out of the tunnel, over to the lake, watch him
> be attacked by Dementors and rescued by himself. What does this
> tell us about Time Travel in the Potterverse?

June:
That is is just as confusing as any other time travel lol. Time
travel in my opinion is some thing that, the more you think about
it and try to work out how some thing happened, the more confusing
it becomes.

> 7.While it's fresh, can you reconstruct what Snape saw when he
> came to? How does it compare to what he may have overheard
> earlier in the Shrieking Shack?

June:
Well the first thing he probably saw was Ron laying on the ground
with his leg broken and everyone else gone. I really don't think
that Snape would have had time to think much on what had happened.
He probably thought he needed to get Ron on a stretcher and find the
rest to make sure Hermione and Harry were safe and to get Sirius to
the dementors. He was also probably concerned because he knew there
was a dangerous werewolf loose and it could be anywhere. I think
getting the kids and getting the heck out of there was his main focus
(and incidently at this point I started to think, it probably was
Snape who sent the patronus).