During their Transfiguration lesson, Ron somehow manages to give
himself a handlebar mustache. Hermione laughs at how ridiculous
he looks.
He in turn humiliates her by doing an exaggerated impression of
her eagerly answering questions every time McGonagall asks the
class something. Lavender and Parvati laugh riotously every time,
reducing Hermione to the point of tears.
She runs out of the classroom as soon as the bell rings. Harry
scoops up her things and races after her. He finds her being
comforted by Luna Lovegood.
Hermione seems embarrassed to have Harry find her that way and
tries to hide the fact that she’s been crying, running away from
him before he can offer words of comfort.
said something about that Ron Weasley...”
unkind. I noticed that last year.”
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Luna admits to feeling a bit lonely without having the DA this
year, though Ginny has been nice to her. Harry asks her to go
with him to Slughorn’s party, just as friends and she accepts.
It seems, in my opinion, to be motivated by guilt. Harry, just
like the end of the last book, feels bad that Luna doesn’t have
any real friends, and perhaps feels guilty about abandoning her
and the DA, so he invites her to be his guest. Last year, seeing
her looking for her stolen possessions, he volunteered to help
her. Maybe he sees a bit of himself in her, the Harry who was
stuck living with the Dursleys, before Hermione and Ron. End
rant.
Ginny makes it a point to stop by at dinner, before going to sit
next to Dean, to defend Luna from Ron calling her “Loony” and to
tell Harry she’s glad he’s taking Luna. She always manages to get
his attention back to her in a positive light (oh, isn’t she a
saint, being nice to Luna and so charitably giving her approval
to Harry’s taking Luna out).
Harry notices Hermione sitting down the table, away from them,
playing with her stew. He tells Ron that he should apologize to
her.
Lavender flung her arms around Ron’s neck.
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Harry asks Parvati, who seems just as embarrassed by Ron and
Lavender’s antics as Harry, about staying at Hogwarts. She
managed to talk her parents into letting her stay for the time
being, but Katie being attacked while at school scared them.
Hermione approaches the group. Parvati beams at Hermione and
Hermione beams back even more brightly. She excitedly tells
Parvati about going to the party with Cormac MacLaggen.
Another rant: Let’s look at Hermione’s response for a moment.
“That’s right,” said Hermione sweetly. “The one who almost” – she
put a great deal of emphasis on the word – “became Gryffindor
Keeper.”
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Putting the emphasis on ‘almost’ makes it seem to me that
she’s directing the comment more to Harry than to Ron. Afterall,
Ron doesn’t really know how close MacLaggen came to being on the
House team, does he? Only Harry is in on
Hermione’s little secret. So if ‘almost’ was supposed to incite
some type of response it seems more likely to incite panic in
Harry than rage or jealousy in Ron especially since Ron did make
the team, so why would he care if someone else almost made the
team. This is also followed by the comment that she likes
“really good Quidditch players.” Which, aside from making me
laugh every time I read it, clearly is not Ron as he, at least by
JK's description of things, is not very good at all. I mean, yes
she's being mean to Ron, but she's also telling a truth about
what she finds attractive. I don’t know what any of this means,
it’s just something I noticed just know typing up these notes.
End rant.
Harry watches Hermione’s interaction with Parvati and notes that
girls can be “very strange sometimes.” After Hermione leaves and
Lavender and Parvati are huddled together gossiping, Harry
marvels at “the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.”
Begin rant: Which is why it bothers me so much that Hermione has
anything to do with this nonsense. She's above such idiotic
behaviour, just look at the way she's conducted herself before.
Whenever Malfoy would attack them, when Skeeter broke the story
that she and Harry were dating in Fourth Year...Hermione held her
self strong, chin up against it all and told both boys to just
ignore it and not succumb to the childish, insulting antics. So
what's gotten into her all of a sudden? End rant.
himself a handlebar mustache. Hermione laughs at how ridiculous
he looks.
He in turn humiliates her by doing an exaggerated impression of
her eagerly answering questions every time McGonagall asks the
class something. Lavender and Parvati laugh riotously every time,
reducing Hermione to the point of tears.
She runs out of the classroom as soon as the bell rings. Harry
scoops up her things and races after her. He finds her being
comforted by Luna Lovegood.
Hermione seems embarrassed to have Harry find her that way and
tries to hide the fact that she’s been crying, running away from
him before he can offer words of comfort.
- “She’s a bit upset,” said Luna. “I thought at first it was
said something about that Ron Weasley...”
- “Yeah, they’ve had a row,” said Harry.
“He says very funny things sometimes, doesn’t he?” said Luna,
unkind. I noticed that last year.”
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Luna admits to feeling a bit lonely without having the DA this
year, though Ginny has been nice to her. Harry asks her to go
with him to Slughorn’s party, just as friends and she accepts.
It seems, in my opinion, to be motivated by guilt. Harry, just
like the end of the last book, feels bad that Luna doesn’t have
any real friends, and perhaps feels guilty about abandoning her
and the DA, so he invites her to be his guest. Last year, seeing
her looking for her stolen possessions, he volunteered to help
her. Maybe he sees a bit of himself in her, the Harry who was
stuck living with the Dursleys, before Hermione and Ron. End
rant.
Ginny makes it a point to stop by at dinner, before going to sit
next to Dean, to defend Luna from Ron calling her “Loony” and to
tell Harry she’s glad he’s taking Luna. She always manages to get
his attention back to her in a positive light (oh, isn’t she a
saint, being nice to Luna and so charitably giving her approval
to Harry’s taking Luna out).
Harry notices Hermione sitting down the table, away from them,
playing with her stew. He tells Ron that he should apologize to
her.
- “You could say sorry,” suggested Harry bluntly.
“What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?”
- “What did you have to imitate her for?”
“She laughed at my mustache!”
“So did I, it was the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.”
But Ron did not seem to have heard; Lavender has just arrived
Lavender flung her arms around Ron’s neck.
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Harry asks Parvati, who seems just as embarrassed by Ron and
Lavender’s antics as Harry, about staying at Hogwarts. She
managed to talk her parents into letting her stay for the time
being, but Katie being attacked while at school scared them.
Hermione approaches the group. Parvati beams at Hermione and
Hermione beams back even more brightly. She excitedly tells
Parvati about going to the party with Cormac MacLaggen.
Another rant: Let’s look at Hermione’s response for a moment.
“That’s right,” said Hermione sweetly. “The one who almost” – she
put a great deal of emphasis on the word – “became Gryffindor
Keeper.”
Page 313, U.S. Hardcover Edition
Putting the emphasis on ‘almost’ makes it seem to me that
she’s directing the comment more to Harry than to Ron. Afterall,
Ron doesn’t really know how close MacLaggen came to being on the
House team, does he? Only Harry is in on
Hermione’s little secret. So if ‘almost’ was supposed to incite
some type of response it seems more likely to incite panic in
Harry than rage or jealousy in Ron especially since Ron did make
the team, so why would he care if someone else almost made the
team. This is also followed by the comment that she likes
“really good Quidditch players.” Which, aside from making me
laugh every time I read it, clearly is not Ron as he, at least by
JK's description of things, is not very good at all. I mean, yes
she's being mean to Ron, but she's also telling a truth about
what she finds attractive. I don’t know what any of this means,
it’s just something I noticed just know typing up these notes.
End rant.
Harry watches Hermione’s interaction with Parvati and notes that
girls can be “very strange sometimes.” After Hermione leaves and
Lavender and Parvati are huddled together gossiping, Harry
marvels at “the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.”
Begin rant: Which is why it bothers me so much that Hermione has
anything to do with this nonsense. She's above such idiotic
behaviour, just look at the way she's conducted herself before.
Whenever Malfoy would attack them, when Skeeter broke the story
that she and Harry were dating in Fourth Year...Hermione held her
self strong, chin up against it all and told both boys to just
ignore it and not succumb to the childish, insulting antics. So
what's gotten into her all of a sudden? End rant.
Ron and Hermione are not speaking to each other and Harry now has
to suffer Lavender being around more.
Ron thinks he's completely in the right to traipse around with
Lavender and treat Hermione like she's turned into a Death Eater
because she may or may not have kissed Viktor Krum two years ago.
He tries to justify what is effectively his betrayal of Hermione
by stating that they were going to Slughorn's party just as
friends. He can do what he wants without any care for anyone else
because he's a "free agent".
Harry spends his time ignoring Ron's and Hermione's comments
about the other. This is not the first time Harry is in the
middle of Ron and Hermione's fights, but it does mark the first
time Harry takes Hermione's side and seeks out Hermione, choosing
to spend time with her over spending time with Ron.
Harry joins Hermione in the Library where Hermione warns Harry
about the younger girls' plot to slip him a love potion. Hermione
didn't confiscate the potions because the girls were just
discussing tactics and didn't have the potion on them.
They discuss how the girls would have smuggled the potion in
under Filch's nose. Hermione notes that as a Squib Filch probably
can't tell potion from cough medicine.
Madame Pince appears to announce the close of the Library when
she sees that Harry has "desecrated" his potions book and
promptly spazzes out so that Hermione frog-marches Harry away
from the poor woman.
They playfully discuss whether or not Filch and Pince are
secretly in love.
to suffer Lavender being around more.
Ron thinks he's completely in the right to traipse around with
Lavender and treat Hermione like she's turned into a Death Eater
because she may or may not have kissed Viktor Krum two years ago.
He tries to justify what is effectively his betrayal of Hermione
by stating that they were going to Slughorn's party just as
friends. He can do what he wants without any care for anyone else
because he's a "free agent".
Harry spends his time ignoring Ron's and Hermione's comments
about the other. This is not the first time Harry is in the
middle of Ron and Hermione's fights, but it does mark the first
time Harry takes Hermione's side and seeks out Hermione, choosing
to spend time with her over spending time with Ron.
Harry joins Hermione in the Library where Hermione warns Harry
about the younger girls' plot to slip him a love potion. Hermione
didn't confiscate the potions because the girls were just
discussing tactics and didn't have the potion on them.
They discuss how the girls would have smuggled the potion in
under Filch's nose. Hermione notes that as a Squib Filch probably
can't tell potion from cough medicine.
Madame Pince appears to announce the close of the Library when
she sees that Harry has "desecrated" his potions book and
promptly spazzes out so that Hermione frog-marches Harry away
from the poor woman.
They playfully discuss whether or not Filch and Pince are
secretly in love.
At Slughorn’s Party, Harry gets dragged around a bit by Slughorn
to meet some guests. Harry immediately excuses himself as soon as
he spots Hermione. Dragging Luna behind him, he squeezes through
the crowd calling out for Hermione.
Hermione seems unspeakably relieved to see him, she’s “just
escaped” MacLaggen. Seeing her so disheveled and knowing
MacLaggen was accosting her has upset Harry and he tells her,
severely, that it “serves her right for coming with him.”
Hermione admits she almost took Zacharias Smith, the idea of
which revolts Harry. But here, if there was doubt before, is the
proof that Hermione had her choice of boys to take to the party.
And perhaps it is not so unfathomable that she’s attractive and
has interest from the male population at the school...(and
further proof that Ron was being a total prat in Fourth Year).
Hermione leads Harry and Luna further away from wherever she left
MacLaggen. They meet a drunken Trelawney and while Luna listens
to Trelawney’s rantings about Firenze, Harry pulls Hermione aside.
He asks her if she plans on telling Ron about what happened at
Keeper tryouts. He’s worried that if Ron finds out he’ll just
fall apart again. This irritates Hermione because she’s just
suffered through MacLaggen’s recounting of all his wonderful
saves; it seems Quidditch is the one thing boys can talk about.
Hermione spots MacLaggen and disappears so quickly Harry barely
realizes why she’s gone before MacLaggen appears at his side to
ask if he’s seen Hermione. Harry rejoins Luna and Trelawney to
get away from MacLaggen himself.
Slughorn pulls Snape over to join in the conversation much to
both Snape’s and Harry’s displeasure. Slughorn raves about
Harry’s potion-making skills. When Slughorn mentions that Harry
turned in even better results than Snape, Harry finds himself
under the intensely scrutinizing gaze of the Legilimency master.
Luna changes the subject then mentioning that Harry shouldn’t be
an Auror because they’re part of some sort of bizarre conspiracy.
Filch drags Malfoy over by the ear, having caught him lurking in
an upstairs corridor. Slughorn permits Malfoy to stay at the
party for Malfoy said he was trying to gate-crash.
At that pronouncement, Harry witnesses everyone’s reactions.
Filch’s expression of outraged disappointment was perfectly
predictable; but why, Harry wondered, watching him, did Malfoy
look almost equally unhappy? And why was Snape looking at Malfoy
as though both angry and...was it possible?...a little afraid?
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Harry is also surprised to see that Malfoy looks ill. Snape soon
drags Malfoy away. Harry follows the pair under the Invisibility
Cloak.
He overhears Snape and Malfoy talking about the attack on Katie
Bell. Snape says the attempt was “both clumsy and foolish” and
that Malfoy is already suspected. Malfoy swears he had nothing to
do with it. Snape seems to see right through that lie and even
attempts to read Malfoy’s mind.
Malfoy says he knows what Snape is trying to do and that he can
stop him. Snape observes that Aunt Bellatrix has taught him
Occlumency. Snape offers his help, but Malfoy doesn’t want it. He
tells Snape that the Unbreakable Vow will just have to be broken
because he doesn’t need any help. He refuses to tell Snape of his
plan, insisting that he has people to help him.
Malfoy is frustrated with the act...Defense Against the Dark Arts
doesn’t really matter, they don’t need protection from it. Snape
insists that the act is necessary and crucial to success. Snape
admits all would have been lost for him if he did not know how to
act.
Malfoy is afraid Snape is trying to steal his glory. He storms
out after Snape mentions his father’s imprisonment. Harry is
stunned by all he’s heard.
to meet some guests. Harry immediately excuses himself as soon as
he spots Hermione. Dragging Luna behind him, he squeezes through
the crowd calling out for Hermione.
Hermione seems unspeakably relieved to see him, she’s “just
escaped” MacLaggen. Seeing her so disheveled and knowing
MacLaggen was accosting her has upset Harry and he tells her,
severely, that it “serves her right for coming with him.”
Hermione admits she almost took Zacharias Smith, the idea of
which revolts Harry. But here, if there was doubt before, is the
proof that Hermione had her choice of boys to take to the party.
And perhaps it is not so unfathomable that she’s attractive and
has interest from the male population at the school...(and
further proof that Ron was being a total prat in Fourth Year).
Hermione leads Harry and Luna further away from wherever she left
MacLaggen. They meet a drunken Trelawney and while Luna listens
to Trelawney’s rantings about Firenze, Harry pulls Hermione aside.
He asks her if she plans on telling Ron about what happened at
Keeper tryouts. He’s worried that if Ron finds out he’ll just
fall apart again. This irritates Hermione because she’s just
suffered through MacLaggen’s recounting of all his wonderful
saves; it seems Quidditch is the one thing boys can talk about.
Hermione spots MacLaggen and disappears so quickly Harry barely
realizes why she’s gone before MacLaggen appears at his side to
ask if he’s seen Hermione. Harry rejoins Luna and Trelawney to
get away from MacLaggen himself.
Slughorn pulls Snape over to join in the conversation much to
both Snape’s and Harry’s displeasure. Slughorn raves about
Harry’s potion-making skills. When Slughorn mentions that Harry
turned in even better results than Snape, Harry finds himself
under the intensely scrutinizing gaze of the Legilimency master.
Luna changes the subject then mentioning that Harry shouldn’t be
an Auror because they’re part of some sort of bizarre conspiracy.
Filch drags Malfoy over by the ear, having caught him lurking in
an upstairs corridor. Slughorn permits Malfoy to stay at the
party for Malfoy said he was trying to gate-crash.
At that pronouncement, Harry witnesses everyone’s reactions.
Filch’s expression of outraged disappointment was perfectly
predictable; but why, Harry wondered, watching him, did Malfoy
look almost equally unhappy? And why was Snape looking at Malfoy
as though both angry and...was it possible?...a little afraid?
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Harry is also surprised to see that Malfoy looks ill. Snape soon
drags Malfoy away. Harry follows the pair under the Invisibility
Cloak.
He overhears Snape and Malfoy talking about the attack on Katie
Bell. Snape says the attempt was “both clumsy and foolish” and
that Malfoy is already suspected. Malfoy swears he had nothing to
do with it. Snape seems to see right through that lie and even
attempts to read Malfoy’s mind.
Malfoy says he knows what Snape is trying to do and that he can
stop him. Snape observes that Aunt Bellatrix has taught him
Occlumency. Snape offers his help, but Malfoy doesn’t want it. He
tells Snape that the Unbreakable Vow will just have to be broken
because he doesn’t need any help. He refuses to tell Snape of his
plan, insisting that he has people to help him.
Malfoy is frustrated with the act...Defense Against the Dark Arts
doesn’t really matter, they don’t need protection from it. Snape
insists that the act is necessary and crucial to success. Snape
admits all would have been lost for him if he did not know how to
act.
Malfoy is afraid Snape is trying to steal his glory. He storms
out after Snape mentions his father’s imprisonment. Harry is
stunned by all he’s heard.
| Chapter 16: A Very Frosty Christmas |
again and again, but he does believe Harry was right about Malfoy
now. Harry imagines the arguments Hermione would have, but he
never got a chance to tell her. She had left the party by the
time he returned and gone to bed before he got back to Gryffindor
Tower. They left so early the next day, he only got a chance to
say goodbye and let her know he had big news to share when they
returned.
Ron asks what Harry plans to do with the information. Harry says
he’s going to tell anyone who can stop it. Dumbledore is at the
top of the list, but he’s going to try speaking with Arthur one
more time.
The only time he can talk to Arthur is the evening of Christmas
Eve when everyone has settled in listening to Celestina Warbeck.
Harry tells Arthur and the extremely haggard looking Remus all he
overheard.
Arthur suggests the Snape was only pretending. Remus staunchly
defends Dumbledore’s judgment in trusting Snape. He tells Harry
that if you trust Dumbledore, you have to trust Snape. Remus also
mentions that if Harry relates the tale to Dumbledore he
shouldn’t be surprised if Dumbledore is neither shocked nor
concerned for it may have been on Dumbledore’s orders that Snape
questioned Malfoy.
We learn that Remus has been among his own kind, trying to find
allies among the werewolf population. He’s been trying to reason
with those who would follow the likes of Fenrir Greyback, a
malicious werewolf whose purpose in life is to contaminate as
many victims as possible to overcome wizards. His specialty is
children; it was Fenrir who bit Remus when he was a boy.
Harry takes the chance to question Remus about an idea he’s been
harboring since he first saw how the spell worked. He asks if
Remus has ever heard of the Half-Blood Prince. Remus reassures
him: he has never heard of HBP, there are no princes in the
Magical World and just because James used the spell on young
Severus in the memory doesn’t mean anything.
Harry resolves to check the date on the HBP book to see when the
Prince was in school. Fleur starts singing “A Cauldron Full of
Hot, Strong Love” which disperses the crowd for the night.
The date inside the HBP textbook says that it was published 50
years ago, too long ago for it to have been his father or the
rest of the Marauders.
Harry is awoken on Christmas morning to Ron’s horror at his gift
from Lav-Lav. She’s graced him with a lovely golden necklace,
proudly claiming him as “My Sweetheart”. Ron admits to that their
relationship is more physical than anything else; he doesn’t
really know much about Lavender herself.
He asks Harry if Hermione is dating Cormac MacLaggen. Harry
doesn’t know for sure, they went to Slughorn’s party, but it
didn’t go very well. He moves on to his gift from Kreacher.
A moment later, Harry had given a loud yell and leapt out of his
camp bed; the package contained a large number of maggots.
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Everyone wears their Weasley sweaters to lunch, except Fleur.
Molly didn’t see fit to waste a sweater on her.
Molly asks Remus if he’s heard from Tonks. He replies that he
hasn’t heard much from anyone, but that Tonks has her own family.
Molly tells him she got the impression Tonks was spending
Christmas by herself. Harry notes that Molly seems annoyed with
Remus as though it is his fault she’s getting stuck with Fleur as
a daughter-in-law instead of Tonks. Watching how sickeningly in
love Fleur and Bill are, Harry thinks she’s fighting a losing
battle.
He has no clue that his line of reasoning is totally off base.
He’s made a conclusion and is finding evidence to support his
theory.
Harry also takes this opportunity, being totally clueless to the
situation, to question Remus about Tonks’ Patronus changing.
Remus takes his time answering. A Patronus can change because of
a “great shock ... an emotional upheaval...”
Harry tells him that it looked big and had four legs. He starts
to ask if Remus thinks her Patronus could have changed to a dog,
because he thinks Tonks had feelings for Sirius, but, thankfully,
he is interrupted by a new arrival.
Percy is the World’s Biggest Prat! Need I say more?
He brought Scrimgeour meet Harry under the pretense of a
Christmas visit to his family. Scrim wants Harry to “work” with
the Ministry and condone its actions.
Harry, with an odd bravado, says he doesn’t want to be used as a
mascot just as Stan’s being used as a scapegoat. He warns Scrim
to leave Dumbledore alone, that interfering with Dumbledore’s
plans cost Fudge his position.
Scrim accuses Harry of being “Dumbledore’s man through and
through.” Harry proudly states that he is and with that he turns
his back on the Minister for Magic and walks back into the Burrow.
now. Harry imagines the arguments Hermione would have, but he
never got a chance to tell her. She had left the party by the
time he returned and gone to bed before he got back to Gryffindor
Tower. They left so early the next day, he only got a chance to
say goodbye and let her know he had big news to share when they
returned.
Ron asks what Harry plans to do with the information. Harry says
he’s going to tell anyone who can stop it. Dumbledore is at the
top of the list, but he’s going to try speaking with Arthur one
more time.
The only time he can talk to Arthur is the evening of Christmas
Eve when everyone has settled in listening to Celestina Warbeck.
Harry tells Arthur and the extremely haggard looking Remus all he
overheard.
Arthur suggests the Snape was only pretending. Remus staunchly
defends Dumbledore’s judgment in trusting Snape. He tells Harry
that if you trust Dumbledore, you have to trust Snape. Remus also
mentions that if Harry relates the tale to Dumbledore he
shouldn’t be surprised if Dumbledore is neither shocked nor
concerned for it may have been on Dumbledore’s orders that Snape
questioned Malfoy.
We learn that Remus has been among his own kind, trying to find
allies among the werewolf population. He’s been trying to reason
with those who would follow the likes of Fenrir Greyback, a
malicious werewolf whose purpose in life is to contaminate as
many victims as possible to overcome wizards. His specialty is
children; it was Fenrir who bit Remus when he was a boy.
Harry takes the chance to question Remus about an idea he’s been
harboring since he first saw how the spell worked. He asks if
Remus has ever heard of the Half-Blood Prince. Remus reassures
him: he has never heard of HBP, there are no princes in the
Magical World and just because James used the spell on young
Severus in the memory doesn’t mean anything.
Harry resolves to check the date on the HBP book to see when the
Prince was in school. Fleur starts singing “A Cauldron Full of
Hot, Strong Love” which disperses the crowd for the night.
The date inside the HBP textbook says that it was published 50
years ago, too long ago for it to have been his father or the
rest of the Marauders.
Harry is awoken on Christmas morning to Ron’s horror at his gift
from Lav-Lav. She’s graced him with a lovely golden necklace,
proudly claiming him as “My Sweetheart”. Ron admits to that their
relationship is more physical than anything else; he doesn’t
really know much about Lavender herself.
He asks Harry if Hermione is dating Cormac MacLaggen. Harry
doesn’t know for sure, they went to Slughorn’s party, but it
didn’t go very well. He moves on to his gift from Kreacher.
A moment later, Harry had given a loud yell and leapt out of his
camp bed; the package contained a large number of maggots.
- “Nice,” said Ron, roaring with laughter. “Very thoughtful.”
“I’d rather have them than that necklace,” said Harry, which
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Everyone wears their Weasley sweaters to lunch, except Fleur.
Molly didn’t see fit to waste a sweater on her.
Molly asks Remus if he’s heard from Tonks. He replies that he
hasn’t heard much from anyone, but that Tonks has her own family.
Molly tells him she got the impression Tonks was spending
Christmas by herself. Harry notes that Molly seems annoyed with
Remus as though it is his fault she’s getting stuck with Fleur as
a daughter-in-law instead of Tonks. Watching how sickeningly in
love Fleur and Bill are, Harry thinks she’s fighting a losing
battle.
He has no clue that his line of reasoning is totally off base.
He’s made a conclusion and is finding evidence to support his
theory.
Harry also takes this opportunity, being totally clueless to the
situation, to question Remus about Tonks’ Patronus changing.
Remus takes his time answering. A Patronus can change because of
a “great shock ... an emotional upheaval...”
Harry tells him that it looked big and had four legs. He starts
to ask if Remus thinks her Patronus could have changed to a dog,
because he thinks Tonks had feelings for Sirius, but, thankfully,
he is interrupted by a new arrival.
Percy is the World’s Biggest Prat! Need I say more?
He brought Scrimgeour meet Harry under the pretense of a
Christmas visit to his family. Scrim wants Harry to “work” with
the Ministry and condone its actions.
Harry, with an odd bravado, says he doesn’t want to be used as a
mascot just as Stan’s being used as a scapegoat. He warns Scrim
to leave Dumbledore alone, that interfering with Dumbledore’s
plans cost Fudge his position.
Scrim accuses Harry of being “Dumbledore’s man through and
through.” Harry proudly states that he is and with that he turns
his back on the Minister for Magic and walks back into the Burrow.
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