And now we are back to regular program.
According to one of my relatives I filled out my vulgarity and dick-jokes quotas for this month. Me, being over-competitive jerk had to take it as challenge. So this chapter is Work Safe-ish?
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Harry would be getting goods in exchange for fertility potions and medicine only if there were absolutely no other magic-users in the village to do the job. And even then they might prefer the local muggle monk or nun who worked in the herb garden and had read a bit of Galen.
>For that matter how does [the Sneakoscope] gauge trustworthiness? Wouldn’t that require mind magic?<
Why doesn’t Harry take the Sneakoscope to Potions class to learn for sure whether or not he should trust Snape? Of course Snape’s world-class Occlumency would block it as soon as he felt its cold, mechanical touch, but Harry doesn’t know that. What Harry really needs to do is take the Sneakoscope with him the next time he goes to the Headmaster’s office.
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Don't worry Harry has you covered 👍
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it goes on!
this is my 2nd most disliked book
i cant wait to read what you make out of it
>Wait, Dursleys’ are flinching at Harry’s sight? You don’t flinch out of hate or disgust, you flinch if you are startled or afraid.
that is a VERY good point
>I mean if there are only a few Hogsmeade weekends per year and there are no on campus shops, how less organised students get their supplies when they run out? What if you took more notes during class or ran out of parchment during writing love letters? You need to live off other students’ good will?
most likely jkr didn't think about the practicality of that system but when i first read it, i always wondered WHY there is a restriction in the first place? hogsmeade is a fully wizarding town, why is there no spell to keep the kids out of trouble, and just let them leave the castle and get some alone or out time? never made sense to me
yay for going along with it!
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If that were the case, Harry couldn’t be deprived of his Hogsmeade rights by the Horrible Dursleys, allowing him to angst over it for weeks, then demonstrate his Gryffindor Courage by breaking the rules with his ultra-special Marauders Map, nobly claiming his freedom to risk his life for the sake of candy, and brilliantly humiliating Draco Malfoy with the aid of his Mary Sue Invisibility Cloak. We can’t have the Chosen One just strolling into town and buying a ream of paper like any other student.
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me likes!
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I agree that Harry is super sheltered, but quite often his author acts equally sheltered/disconnected from uglier sides of life. It's shame too since it would be interesting to watch Harry grow from even talking with people from different ways of life.
Actually, I'm surprised that Jo didn't do such a thing in books. It fits Severus' teaching style and Harry would have yet another thing to rage at Snape. Even if we don't get the second punch in the shape of Minnie also cutting off essays it would still be great to see in the books.
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