Comments on: Professor Umbridge

By: Zaneta

Zaneta — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:22:29 +0000

Am I the only one thinking why the heck was McGonagall INSISTING on the biscuits? She didn’t ask Harry if he wants one, she just made him eat two… Why? Was that just because she tried to be nice and all or because of something else?

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:03:48 +0000

Ihave also given some thought on how many students there are in Gryffindor in Harry’s year. We never hear of any other girls than Hermione, Parvati and Lavender, and even if there were two more girls, it’s unlikely that there would be five girls and five boys every year in each house, isn’t it? Or, maybe, this explains why Peter Pettigrew was in Gryffindor – the other houses were full ;)
No, seriously, I just don’t see how there’s the same amount of students every year. What happens if there’s just two girls one of these years? What dormitory would they be in? Where would they put the boys that can’t fit in the boy’s dormitory…? So many questions…

While on the subject of dormitories, I’ve given the layout of the Gryffindor tower some thoughts as well. The common room is shaped like a circle, as is the dormitory rooms (at least Harry’s), and there would be at least fourteen rooms if every year has their own one, boys and girls. I’ve come to the conclusion that the Gryffindor tower has the actual common room in the tower itself, then four smaller towers on top, each with four towers on THEM. Otherwise I don’t know how to make it work… unless the dormitories are stapled on eachother like in this picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24166730@N07/4928549599/

By: hpfan

hpfan — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:43:09 +0000

I love Heather Campbell’s picture. I laugh every time I see it.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:25:39 +0000

I have to agrre with Trelawney when she says that if you don’t possess the “Seeing Eye” getting good grades in this class won’t matter.

The second cource aim in Umbridge’s class: “Learning to regonize situations in which defensive magic can legally be used.” Things are messed up when you can be sent to jail for acting in self-defense.

By: Sky

Sky — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:44:04 +0000

I think the really interesting thing about Hermione saying that Lavender thinks Harry’s lying is that Parvati isn’t mentioned as thinking the same, and Harry doesn’t seem to care. Even after (presumably) reading the Daily Prophet lies and her best friend’s beliefs and Harry standing her up at the Yule Ball and all of that, she still believes him. Harry is sure that Lavender and Parvati just stopped talking about him when he enters the Great Hall, but doesn’t it seem they just stopped ARGUING about him?

By: reagan

reagan — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:34:55 +0000

The conversation about the occupants really makes me think about the sorting hat, the numbers in each year and etc. What if there had been 10 Gryffendor boys that year? or none at all? Does the sorting hat keep a tally so that the houses are even-ish? I could just see one year there being only 1 slytherin or ravenclaw in that year and how would that affect classes? so many questions!

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:18:04 +0000

whoops, I meant planets* and I suppose Astronomy helps in Divination, not just Astrology, but it does seem to be a more Astrology class.

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:16:58 +0000

Billie, the only practical use I’ve seen wizards getting out of Astronomy is the ability to read those watches and clocks with the planes all along their sides (which are actually introduced in the very first chapter of the series). Harry seems to be able to read this type of watch easily by the time he acquires one. He never thinks to himself “too bad I won’t be able to use this” so I can only assume Astronomy has helped him very much here. I’ve always wondered though, how one reads this type of time-piece. I’d love to know how for myself!

By: Grace has Victory

Grace has Victory — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:24:34 +0000

Wevl, JKR has stated that Colin was not at Hogwarts for the year 1997-8, but that he sneaked back for the battle.
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/0730-bloomsbury-chat.html

As for Lavender and Terry, I think it’s safe to say that they didn’t want to go with the Snatchers and that they would have sneaked their way back into Hogwarts if they possibly could. We don’t know how they managed it, but Terry is a smart Ravenclaw, so he’d have thought of something. As for Lavender, anyone with a surname like Brown could have faked a plausible genealogy.

By: Veronica

Veronica — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:30:19 +0000

Hermione’s differences with Lavender and Parvati is probably yet another reason why we alwasys see her in the library or the common room aside form the obivious reason that she’s always studying. I know if I were Hermione, I would not be able to stand all the giggling and girl talk when I’m trying to figure things out whether it was that night’s homework or another Harry problem.