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Ootp: Chapter Thirty- Grawp

Jul 01, 2005 22:10

In the aftermath of Fred and George's amazing departure the school is a buzz with what happened. The swamp on the fifth floor is left untouched. There is two broom-shaped holes in Umbridge;s office door, a new door is soon found and Harry's firebolt is moved to the dungeons and things just get worse for Umbridge. A Niffler is put in her ofice, odd ( Read more... )

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schtroumph_c July 1 2005, 22:50:59 UTC

* I love how Luna simply doesn't care of what people think about her.

* None of the staff but Filch seemed to be stirring themselves to help her.

Meaning Snape too?

* What happen to the howlers? If Umbrige or the Squad open them, or only keep them, it’s them who take all.

* I admit, I didn’t read the song’s lyrics the first time, and I had the same surprise than Harry and Hermione.

cadesama July 2 2005, 00:58:57 UTC

Pretty sure Montague's parents are the first we've ever seen actually come to Hogwarts over an injury -- or any complaint, really. For the most part, I think problems at Hogwarts can be easily dealt with, enough so that parents never bother coming But what about in CoS? Did they tell the parents of the petrified students? Did they downplay it? Or was there simply no means for the muggle parents to visit their kids at the muggle-warded castle ( ... )

house_elf_44 July 2 2005, 04:42:23 UTC

...in the crazy theory department...
Is it possible that the trio's teacups illustrate a love triangle? Harry's legs are substantial, but haven't connected yet. Ron's legs have connected, but are weak and trembling. Hermione's legs are just right, and she's revolving around Harry. So what would it mean that Ron breaks in 2, and Hermione repairs him? Then Hermione scampers away, Ron's legs collapse, and Hermione circles around Harry, whose legs still don't yet reach. But I don't like the part where Hermione goes over the edge and smashes.

I think Quidditch foreshadows battles. So Ron feels like he has nothing to loose, which enables him to be successful as a keeper while Harry and Hermione are off on an adventure, and Gryffindor wins.

...H/Hr and alchemy...
Shipping-wise, I love that in the forest, Harry catches Hermione, and then she clings to him behind a tree. I looked up forest in Lyndy Abraham's Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery, and found this to be an illustration of a chemical wedding in the current cycle through the 7 ( ... )

trash_addict July 2 2005, 05:03:32 UTC

Ok, so in my point of view, Hermione is definitely the heroine of the series, and we've always been able to see her as a strong female character who's smart as hell and can (usually) do anything just as good as the boys. I think is this chapter though, we get to see a little element of her being the damsel-in-distress, repeatedly needing Harry to 'save' her and turning to him for comfort. I immediately thought of King Kong when Grawp reached down to grab her. I think it was interesting to see that element of her personality, and then later when Harry tries to leave her behind for him and Ron to go on the rescue mission. I hope it's not a trend that continues.

annearchy July 4 2005, 23:23:16 UTC

The other thing that's interesting to see is Harry's instinctiveness when it comes to protecting Hermione. She almost walks into Hagrid, then falls backward; he catches her before she hits the forest floor. Grawp extends a giant trashcan-lid hand toward Hermione, and Harry doesn't even think on it, he just automatically grabs her and pulls her back so that Grawp can't touch her. And then Hermione clings to him in fear. Well, if a 16-foot-tall giant had taken even a playful swipe at me, I'm sure I'd be clinging to someone, especially if it was my best friend who'd just pulled me out of harm's way.

annearchy July 4 2005, 23:32:18 UTC

One interesting thing about this chapter is that, again (I've lost count of how many times in the whole series), Ron is not present during a significant moment that Harry and Hermione experience together - in this case, the trip to visit Grawp in the Forbidden Forest. I noticed that Hermione didn't hesitate for a moment to leave the Quidditch game and go off with Harry to help Hagrid. Of course Ron was busy playing Quidditch and, for once, played really well and saved the game for Gryffindor, so he wasn't able to come along on this adventure. I suppose Hermione could have chosen to stay there and watch Ron if she'd really wanted to, but instead she chose to go with Harry and Hagrid. What I draw from this is that (a) Hermione isn't nearly as interested in watching Ron play Quidditch as she's always been in watching Harry play Quidditch; and (b) Hermione is willing to go wherever Harry goes if she can't sense, in advance, any compelling reason not to go with him (cf. her argument with Harry in Out of the Fire). It remains to be seen why ( ... )