Comments on: The Woes of Mrs. Weasley

By: Lauren Young

Lauren Young — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:39:33 +0000

I’m not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not so U’ll say it anyway. I always thought that Sirius’ reaction to the boggart may have been because he saw James like that or because seeing Harry’s dead body may have been HIS boggart. He’s bound to have come across one while trapped in his own house; after all, Harry has had many near-death experiences in the past.

By: Dalida

Dalida — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:28:33 +0000

About moody being able to se the boggart: I think the reason moody is able to se the boggart is because of his magical eye.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:23:21 +0000

Considering what happened in the Little Hangleton graveyard just a few weeks previously, would Harry’s boggart still be a dementor or would it have changed to Lord Voldemort?

By: Melanie Lee

Melanie Lee — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:00:35 +0000

We’ve already seen this in the novels The Prisoner of Azkaban (and the movie) and The Goblet of Fire: Harry’s boggart is a Dementor.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:34:47 +0000

If it was Harry that helped Mrs. Weasley with the boggart instead of Lupin, what would Harry’s boggart turn into?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:21:05 +0000

I had thought that about Sirius and James too; it makes me so sad to think about Sirius’s backstory and what having Harry back must have meant to him. I’ve been trying to work out a plausible way in which the dead-Harry boggart could have been Sirius’s, rather than Molly’s, but since Lupin entered the room before Sirius it probably can’t be done – unless Boggarts can sense people close-by and switch their form to someone who isn’t necessarily standing closest to them.

I also love Harry’s reaction to Ron being made a prefect. It’s so real, and the fact that he feels sick with himself for feeling the way he does makes him even more likeable to me; that conflict between knowing what is right and not always being able to do it straight away is a very familiar, human thing! The fact that he acknowledges so quickly that he hates how he’s reacting is brilliant, and another example of just how transparent and honest he is. Hugs for Harry!

Todd, I also love this part of the book – being able to see inside the headquarters of the Order and see them all doing such ordinary things together, it seems very cosy to me.

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:35:31 +0000

All the talk about the boggart scene (and I liked John’s speculation on Sirius’ response) reminded me that one of my favorite parts of “Order of the Phoenix” (though it’s a bleak book, thanks to things like the Umbridge regime), is so many of the people whom we’ve met in past books (the Weasleys, Sirius, Remus, Moody) all working together to clean up No. 12 Grimmauld Place, removing the mess left by magical creatures (such as the boggart), etc. A bleak setting, yes, but a charming concept.

By: Sky

Sky — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:29:21 +0000

Having always been kind of surprised at Fudge’s behavior in this book, I don’t think it’s too much to assume that he’s being manipulated. His reaction at the end of GoF wasn’t too surprising, but it seems to me that Fudge is the type of person that would eventually turn around and agree with Dumbledore. I don’t think anything would have gone this far if some people (Umbridge and Lucius, for example), hadn’t thoroughly supported Fudge in his vein of action/inaction and even nudged him forward a bit.

By: n8

n8 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:52:27 +0000

i’ve always wondered how the head boy and girl are selected

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:01:41 +0000

RE: Prefects
It’s possible that the process for selection goes that each Head of House provides Dumbledore with a list of candidates they think would be good, and Dumbledore makes a decision from the list. If this is true, then it’s possible that McGonagal nominated Harry, but Dumbledore rejected him for the reasons explained at the end of the book. He may have then decided that in Harry’s stead, Ron could do the job. It gives Ron a chance to prove himself outside of Harry’s shadow. It also stands as further proof that Dumbledore is much more aware of Ron than anyone realizes.