Chapter 31 - Owls

[cheeringcharm]

'As you can see,' Professor McGonagall told the class as they copied down the dates and times of their exams from the blackboard, 'your OWLs are spread over two successive weeks. You will sit the theory papers in the mornings and the practice in the afternoons. Your practical Astronomy examination will, of course, take place at night.'Ron is

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[cadesama]

Ah, the whole OWLs experience reminds me of AP/Finals week my Senior year. Although, I suppose nothing could be quite that bad.

If Professor Marchbanks examined Dumbledore, that means she's at least a few years older than him, probably a decade or two. So, I don't think there's any reason to think that Dumbledore will up and die of old age -- funny as that would be.

I like that the happy memory used to generate a Patronus doesn't have to be a pure one. Happiness from spite or revenge is just as acceptable.

Seems like Hermione's really trying to compete with Harry for worst temper tantrum of the book. Silly girl, unless she pulls of the CAPSLOCK OF RAGE, she just can't compete with him.

If there's any justice at all in the WW, and I strongly suspect there isn't, all of the Aurors involved here should be sacked and charged with criminal assault on both Hagrid and McGonagall.

Hmm, right after Harry wishes he could look into Parvati's head to get the answer, he remembers, and then he's assaulted by Voldemort. So, was Harry

[woman_ironing]

On the Harry-Voldemort link, isn't it actually the case that Harry has access to Voldemort's thoughts and feelings, but that (despite Dumbledore's fears) V doesn't have access to Harry's? V. has realised Harry can get into his head and has simply waited for him to arrive and then imagined the Sirius scene for him.
(Harry's scar makes the link - it's a sort of third eye, and Voldemort doesn't have one.)

[cadesama]

That's a really good point. Despite what Dumbledore has told us, so far all the evidence indicates that the link can only be activated form Harry's side. Voldemort has never forcibly opened it, he's just manipulated it. It's possible that he can't do more than that.

[house_elf_44]

>i>Hmm, right after Harry wishes he could look into Parvati's head to get the answer, he remembers, and then he's assaulted by Voldemort. So, was Harry actually using Legilimency?

Harry has some of Voldemort's powers, so it may be possible he can do Legilimency without eye contact, but I see no evidence that he did. Maybe if Parvati reacted somehow. Harry was also trying to picture Hermione's notes before and after wishing he could see into Parvati's head, although her notes were more detailed than the answers he was getting. Maybe that is a subtle clue that he did legilimency on Parvati. That would be cool.

[schtroumph_c]

* Baruffio’s brain Elixir. Isn’t Baruffio the guy with a buffalo and an error of pronunciation Flitwick talked in the first book?

* Examined him personally

Wow! She’s really old!

* The rat he was supposed to be turning orange…

Another remind of the first year after the troll. We have the polyjuice for the second, the patronus for the third.

* I remember how furious I felt when they attacked McGonagall the first time I read OOTP.

[house_elf_44]

I'm noticing a pattern that Transfiguration is mentioned when Harry has made a change. He claims to be looking at his Transfiguration notes after he grinned at Ron messing up his hair and glancing to see if people heard him, reminding him of seeing his father do that. I take the grin to mean Harry has made peace with what he saw of 15 year old James

[jabbamacmilly]

Your bit on seeing things at the end there sounded interesting and made some sense to me. There is a lot to be said for astronomy and the meaning behind the stars and planets.

[potter_phile]

After another distraction, he noticed he had labeled Venus as Mars, and corrected it. I think there are 2 things in here. If Venus represents love, and Mars war, Harry thinks he has to fight, but it's really love that he needs.

You're familiar with the theory that Harry and Hermione essentially made the same mistake? Hermione mixed up "partnership" and "defence" while Harry mislabled "Mars" and "Venus."

[house_elf_44]

You're familiar with the theory that Harry and Hermione essentially made the same mistake? Hermione mixed up "partnership" and "defence" while Harry mislabled "Mars" and "Venus."

No, I haven't seen that before. Point me, please.

[annearchy]

I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but I was quite struck by the details of Harry's vision about the Department of Mysteries - the fact that he knew not only about getting into the circular room with all the doors, but also the general size and configuration of the Hall of Mysteries, even down to which row of shelves Sirius was being tortured in - which turns out, a few chapters later, to be the row in which the prophecy is located. I know that Voldemort is planting the vision of Sirius's "torture" in Harry's mind - but how does Voldemort know where all this stuff is in the DoM? Has he ever been there, or is it information that Voldemort managed to torture out of someone (Rookwood? I'm having trouble remembering the details). Help.