Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Harry Potter dành cho Muggle/Truyện/Phòng Chứa Bí Mật/Chương 7”

During the first week of classes, Harry has avoided [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gilderoy Lockhart|Professor Lockhart]] with some success and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Colin Creevey|Colin Creevey]] with less, only to be awakened far too early Saturday morning by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Oliver Wood|Oliver Wood]] who wants to start [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Quidditch|Quidditch practice]] before the other House teams. At the pitch, the team finds they have been pre-emptedpreempted by Slytherin, armed with [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape|Professor Snape's]] note giving them permission to use the Pitch to train their new seeker: [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Draco Malfoy|Draco Malfoy]]. Also, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lucius Malfoy|Draco's father]] has donated new Nimbus 2001 brooms that are even faster than Harry's Nimbus 2000.

[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ron Weasley|Ron]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione]] arrive to watch the practice. As Draco mocks Gryffindor's brooms, Hermione comments that nobody on the team had to buy his way in, they made it on pure talent. Malfoy, angered by the aspersion, calls Hermione a "filthy "mudblood." When Ron retaliates by casting a jinx at Malfoy, his broken wand backfires, jinxing him instead. Hermione and Harry carry him, belching slugs, to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rubeus Hagrid|Hagrid's]] hut. Hagrid uncharacteristically criticizes Professor Lockhart, suggesting that his books may not be entirely truthful. He also mentions that Lockhart was the only applicant for the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Defence Against the Dark Arts|Defence Against the Dark Arts]] job. Apparently word is out that the position may be jinxed.

Hagrid is shocked that Malfoy called Hermione a mudblood, a most insulting term used to denigrate a Muggle-born's ancestry. Hagrid also says Lockhart was annoyed when he told him that Harry was more famous than Lockhart would ever be. Hagrid then shows themthe Trio his pumpkin patch. Apparently, despite being prohibited from performing magic, he has used an [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Engorgio|Engorgement charm]]. The pumpkins, with a month to go before Hallowe'en, are the size of small boulders.

Several main plot points are highlighted. The first is Draco's addition to the Slytherin Quidditch team, and the team's new brooms, which are probably related. Slytherin House isstudents are known to use any advantage to achieve itstheir goals, and it is likely that Draco, wanting to oppose Harry in Quidditch, used his father's influence to be made Seeker, while the team willingly accepts the Malfoys' generous terms to gain a competitive edge with superior racing brooms. Likely Draco's plan was to humiliate Harry by out-flying him. We do not yet know how well this will work.

Bigotry, a recurring theme throughout the books, is brought into focus here by Draco's animosity towards those he perceives as inferior. Though the Weasley family is pure-blood, Draco (and Mr. Malfoy) despises them for their poverty and their concern for Muggles, in a pattern he almost certainly learned from his father. Similarly, he taunts Hermione about her Muggle parentage, calling her a "Mudblood," a term so derogatory that it shocks Ron and Hagrid, though bothneither Harry andnor Hermione are unsuresure what it means. Hermione, on the other hand, accuses Draco of buying his way onto the Slytherin team through his father's gift, using money and influence, rather than talent and hard work, to obtain what he wants. Although he would claim otherwise, Hermione's words apparently do sting Draco, and his ongoing resentment is likely as much about his jealousy over Hermione's superior intellect and Harry's fame and talents, as about their Muggle antecedents. Being an only child with a cold, disciplinarian father, Draco may even subconsciously envy Ron's large, loving family and the close friendship he enjoys with Harry, and Hermione. Draco lacks true friends, instead garnering hangerhangers-onson like Crabbe and Goyle, who he also considers inferior to himself, and as little more than lackeys to support him. Ironically, Draco is likely talented enough to have become Slytherin's Seeker on his own merits, but rather than work hard to make the team, he instead opts for a short-cut method to immediately achieve what he thinks he already deserves.

Another point is Ron's damaged wand. Even after mending it with Spell-o-Tape, it performs unpredictably, producing gray smoke clouds and odd noises, and now itwe cansee noit longermay not cast spells in the desired direction, even when it does work. Ron, naturally, is frustrated, not only because he is unable to perform magic correctly, further lowering his confidence, but with knowing that, as poor as his parents are, he will probably have to make do with a damaged wand that was already a shoddy hand-me-down, for a long time to come.

Solidarity is shown among the faculty, and one teacher will rarely criticize another. This is stated explicitly in a later book, but has been only implied so far. Given that Hagrid statesmentions that Lockhart's books might not be entirely truthful, one gathers that there is probably much suspicion in the staff room that Lockhart is far less competent than he claims. Given this, and Ron's previous comment that Lockhart offers no proof to back his claims, readers may surmise that Lockhart's abilities are suspect.

# Why would Snape give the Slytherin team permission to use the Pitch, even though it was speciallypreviously reserved for Gryffindor?

# Why would Harry and Hermione take Ron to see Hagrid, rather than to the Hospital Wing, after he accidentally curses himself?

It is also interesting to note, though it is unrelated to the plot, that Hagrid's wand, which Harry correctly suspects is hidden within Hagrid's umbrella, was snapped in two when he was expelled from Hogwarts. However, even in its severed state, it appears to work reasonably well when he has occasionally been seen using it, while Ron's badly damaged and barely intact wand performs quite poorly, even when wrapped with Spell-O-Tape. Also, when Harry's wand is severely damaged by Hermione's ricocheting spell in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 17|''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'']], it becomes totally unusable, though it will later be repaired with singularly powerful magic. It is unknown why Hagrid's wand continued to work and the others did not, though the way in which each was damaged likely had some effect. While Ron's and Harry's wands are broken beyond normal repair, the inner core in Hagrid's wand may only have been slightly damaged when the wand was snapped in two. Hagrid, in fact, comments that his broken wand is less powerful than he expects it to be. ThereforeIt has been suggested that, as Dumbledore's wand seems to be capable of mending Harry's broken wand [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 36|in the differencefinal isbook]], Dumbledore, who never believed that Hagrid was the one ofwho degreeopened the Chamber, rathermay thanhave ofmended damagedHagrid's wandswand alwayson beingcondition unusablethat Hagrid keep it secret. RegardlessHarry's wand does regain its full power after being mended, but we can assume that Hagrid's, being deliberately snapped, was more thoroughly broken, and so the aboverepair ismight mentionednot onlyhave been as aeffective. curiousThis asidewould toexplain why Hagrid's broken wand does not show the storysame random behaviour as Ron's, or the complete failure of Harry's.