HBP: misc. observations (SPOILERS)

[psychic_serpent]

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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Richard <hp at p...> wrote:
> Again, did I miss something, or did the spelling of Phineas change 
halfway 
> through HBP? I didn't take notes while reading and can't find it 
right now, 
> but I could swear that I saw someone called "Finius" mentioned 
towards the 
> end of the book (or maybe I was just getting tired).

While you were drooping your eyes may have been reading "Filius" 
as "Finius" (assuming that there isn't a typo in the UK version--I 
bought the US book and am still waiting for my UK version to 
arrive).  Filius is Prof. Flitwick's first name.


> What was Draco doing in Myrtle's bathroom? My immediate suspicion 
was that 
> he was trying to get into the Chamber of Secrets, but assuming 
that 
> JKR  meant us to think that, she never gave us a plausible reason 
for his 
> being there. It's miles from the RoR - if he wanted to bawl, why 
not do it 
> in the RoR?

He wasn't in Myrtle's bathroom; Myrtle was in a boy's bathroom.  
Harry went in this bathroom before he found Draco in there and it 
seemed pretty clear to me that the boy Myrtle said she'd seen crying 
was Draco, so I wasn't surprised to see him in there later.  Part of 
Harry's discussion with Myrtle concerned what she was doing in that 
bathroom when it wasn't her usual haunt (which can be used here 
literally, for once, in stead of figuratively :D).

--Barb, emerging from lurkdom