Comments on: Detention With Dolores

By: willie

willie — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:25:42 +0000

Todd, re Umbridge (I hate that woman) & cats, her patronus was a cat also.
To Electo, her actions were not abuse, they were torture and she enjoyed every moment of it.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:41:45 +0000

Ron “You’re setting them free when they might not want to be free.”
Hermione “Of course they want to be free!”

I agree with Ron’s statement here.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:13:07 +0000

Sorry to say it, but having to decide what career you want when you’re fifteen isn’t that alien to me. Where I live (Sweden), you choose high school programmes at the age of fifteen, and you need good grades if you want a good education, otherwise you won’t be able to study what you like and need to study for college. They’re changing the systems now, but it’s still pretty harsh.

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:41:34 +0000

Cat-lovers everywhere must be feeling pretty upset at Umbridge for those kitten-adorned plates in her office, and hoping that she’s not really that fond of cats. (Thank goodness for Minerva’s Animagus form and Crookshanks, to balance that!)

By: ellenh

ellenh — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:21:09 +0000

What I want to know is after what happened to Riddle & Snape, how Dumbledore didn’t worry Harry wouldn’t end up the same?

By: n8

n8 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:15:48 +0000

i definetly think dumbledore was right in letting harry live with the Dursleys, after all he wouldn’t have been as tough as he would be if he wasn’t. I was always bullied during my middle school years, but by high school i had grown tough and stopped crying and such so they left me alone. then again i moved to a new school district right before my freshman year. people tried to bully me but quickly gave up. that’s how i feel anyway.

By: Lesharo

Lesharo — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:10:08 +0000

And, I realize I’m really late in responding to Kim, but about the hats and the house elves, I’m wondering if it would actually work at all myself. I mean, I always figured that the person had to physically hand the article of clothing to the elf, or toss it to them as Mr. Malfoy does with the sock. Otherwise, wizards and witches would have to do their own laundry, and I somehow can’t picture Narcissa with a washboard.

By: Lesharo

Lesharo — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:57:56 +0000

As to the all seeing eye of Albus Dumbledore, I’d like to offer up the suggestion that he may not actually be at the school at the times in question. After all, he has memories to hunt.

By: ud

ud — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:53:39 +0000

@ Rtozier there are 5 chapters to snapes name- the chapter”the potons master” in PS.

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:58:16 +0000

Electa, I think at this point in this book, Dumbledore is treading carefully when it comes to the affairs of the Ministry within Hogwarts. It probably pained him very much to know of what Umbridge was doing to Harry, but he felt he couldn’t step in without getting a whole lot of flack from the Ministry and make matters worse. And on the other hand, perhaps this is another one of Dumbledore’s “tests” for Harry. The same as putting him through eleven years worth of physical and mental abuse from the Dursleys. This is actually one of the reasons why my sister hates Dumbledore now. After reading DH, she loathes what he did to Harry, raising him like a lamb to the slaughter.

And Rtozier, don’t forget in PS about the chapter “The Potions Master”. It doesn’t directly have the name Snape in it, but neither do the chapters for Pettigrew that point to him ;]