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A notice is posted for the first [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Hogsmeade|Hogsmeade]] weekend. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ron Weasley|Ron]] suggests that Harry, who lacks his guardian's permission, should ask [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Minerva McGonagall|Professor McGonagall]]. As they are discussing this, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione]]'s cat, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Crookshanks|Crookshanks]], attacks [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Scabbers|Scabbers]], Ron's pet rat. Ron is still upset the next day, and barely speaks to Hermione. Harry asks Professor McGonagall for permission to visit Hogsmeade with the other students, but she refuses to bend the rules that far. Harry must resign himself to staying behind. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Percy Weasley|Percy]] only makes things worse with his over-pompous attempts to console Harry.
 
Wandering aimlessly around the castle on Saturday, Harry runs into Professor Lupin. He invites Harry into his office for tea and to see the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Grindylow|Grindylow]] that he has just received for their next class. When Harry asks why he was prevented from facing the Boggart, Lupin explains he was concerned it would turn into [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Lord Voldemort]] and terrify the class. Harry, mildly surprised that Lupin uses Voldemort's name, is somewhat mollified by this explanation. He says his first thought was Voldemort, but then realized he was more frightened by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Dementor|Dementors]]. Lupin is impressed that Harry is more afraid of fear than thean actual creatureperson. They are interrupted by Professor Snape who delivers a steaming goblet to Lupin. After Snape leaves, Harry, worried about the possible contents of the goblet, warns Lupin that many believe Snape would do anything to get the Defence Against the Dark Arts position, but Lupin drinks the potion nevertheless.
 
Ron and Hermione return with many stories about Hogsmeade. They are also amazed that Lupin would dare to drink anything prepared by Snape. ItLupin is time forattends the HalloweenHallowe'en Feast. Lupin attends thethat festivitiesevening, but Harry notices he looks unhappy. He observes Snape watching Lupin rather more intently than usual. Students head back to Gryffindor Tower, but there is a jam at the entrance; the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/The Fat Lady|Fat Lady]] is missing, her portrait slashed. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore|Professor Dumbledore]] is summoned, and he questions [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Peeves|Peeves]], who says [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sirius Black|Sirius Black]] shredded the painting.
 
== Analysis ==
 
As the battle between Crookshanks and Scabbers escalates, Ron and Hermione's relationship becomes more strained. WeThe alsoreaders can see, but Hermione evidently does not, that Crookshanks is deliberately targeting Scabbers, though why is unknown. EvenHermione thoughseems adamant that it is normal for cats to attack small animals, but we can see that Crookshanks has shown no interest in other pets such as [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Trevor|Trevor]], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Neville Longbottom|Neville]]'s toad. Why has he become fixated only on Scabbers?
 
Considering [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Draco Malfoy|Draco]]'s comments in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Prisoner of Azkaban/Chapter 7|the previous chapter]] that Harry should want revenge against Sirius Black, a correlation can be made as to why authority figures such as [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cornelius Fudge|Fudge]] (in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Prisoner of Azkaban/Chapter 3|Chapter 3]]) and McGonagall (here) deny Harry permission to visit Hogsmeade, and why [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Arthur Weasley|Mr. Weasley]] attempted to procure Harry's promise that he would not search for Sirius Black. AsThe yet,pattern however,we Harrysee ishere unawarewould whatstrongly suggest that Black has done andsomething isthat would inspire a confrontation, but Harry thereforeseems unable to tie these connections together.
 
From the discussion with Professor Lupin, we see hisLupin's concern for Harry's emotional well being and for the entire class. Lupin perhaps is more concerned about the students than any other teacher, with the possible exception of Professor Dumbledore. The Slytherins, meanwhile, are behaving as normal, making aspersions about Lupin's patched robes, obviously more impressed by a person's superficial outer appearance than with their inner character and abilities.
 
Harry is certainly wondering why Snape would deliver a potion to Lupin, though it is unknown what the cup contains. However, it must be something other than a mere drink for Snape to personally bring it to Lupin; and Lupin's comment that sugar would ruin its effects indicates also that there is a magical component. While Harry may suspect it contains poison, that seems unlikely, even considering Snape's animosity toward Lupin. There is probably a particular reason as to why Snape has brewed this for Lupin.
 
Sirius Black has breached the castle's supposedly impenetrable security as well as bypassing the vicious Dementors, making Hogwarts seem far less secure than we have been led to believe. ItThe isreaders nowmay thoughtsuspect that Black may have broken into Hogwarts in the same manner in which he escaped from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Azkaban|Azkaban]], though we have no idea what method he used.
 
Also, while nothing is mentioned in the chapter summary, possible reasons can be seen for Hermione's disdain for Divination. It is mentioned in the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Prisoner of Azkaban/Chapter 6|Chapter 6]], ''Talons and Tea Leaves'', analysis that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sybill Trelawney|Professor Trelawney]] uses fortune-teller's tricks. One was a deliberately-vague "prediction" given to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lavender Brown|Lavender Brown]], "That thing you are dreading. It is going to happen on Friday the sixteenth of October." On October 16th, Lavender receives word that a fox killed her pet bunny, Binky. Hermione questions how this actually fits with the prediction by recalling exactly what it said. Was the bunny's death even a surprise or was Lavender expecting it? Did it happen on the 16th, or is it only on the 16th that she had heard about it? Hermione apparently surmises that Lavender has rationalized her experience to match the prediction. Lavender and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Parvati Patil|Parvati Patil]], however, now seem to almost worship Professor Trelawney. Throughout the remainder of the book, these two spend much spare time hanging out in the Divination classroom.
 
== Questions ==
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No one knows how Black broke into Hogwarts, though it is clear that he has somehow entered the castle grounds. We learn later that there are two secret passages into the school, one starting at the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Shrieking Shack|Shrieking Shack]] and ending at the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Whomping Willow|Whomping Willow]], and another that goes into the school's interior from the cellar in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Honeyduke's Sweetshop|Honeyduke's Sweetshop]] in Hogsmeade village. Possibly Black broke into the Shrieking Shack and used the tunnel from there, or sneaked into Honeyduke's cellar. He might also have simply have walked in; the protective spells around Hogwarts must be specific to humans, as owls, for instance, can pass freely in and out of the school grounds. However, we cannot know whether these spells can detect Black in his [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Animagus|Animagus-transformed]] canine shape. Black explains later that the Dementors perceived him as a dog when he was transformed, though Harry's [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Marauder's Map|Marauder's Map]], which he will receive just before Christmas, will detect another Animagus' human identity while he is transformed. That Animagus is later revealed to be [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Peter Pettigrew|Peter Pettigrew]], who is believed to have been murdered by Sirius.
 
Crookshanks definitely does know the difference. He never attacks Neville's toad, Trevor, or [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Pigwidgeon|Pigwidgeon]], the tiny owl Black later gives Ron, but instead targets only Scabbers, even though all are creatures that Crookshanks would normally hunt. His attacks seem motivated by what Scabbers actually is: an Animagus. Black, also an Animagus, explains later that it took a long time for him to earn Crookshanks' trust and procure his help.
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It may be significant that the authorities, with the possible exception of Dumbledore, have failed to consider that if Black did slip past the Azkaban Dementors unnoticed, he could probably do so again to reach Harry inside Hogwarts. Also, no one, excepting Lupin, has noticed the Dementors' strange attraction to Harry, perhaps making them more dangerous to him than Black appears to be.
 
Readers, like Harry, may suspect that Snape has brewed Lupin a tainted drink. It is, however, another clue regarding Lupin's, as yet, unknown condition. Snape has given him a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Wolfsbane Potion|Wolfsbane potion]] that allows Lupin, who is a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Werewolf|Werewolf]], to retain his sanity during his monthly transformations. Without the potion, he becomes a savage, uncontrollable killer. Lupin will later mention that he had no fear of being poisoned, as it would have been much easier for Snape to simply make the potion incorrectly; one incorrectly mixed dose, and Lupin would probably injure a student and be dismissed or imprisoned. And Wolfsbane Potion is extremely complicated to make, so Snape would be able to claim, successfully, that it was a simple mistake on his part.
 
It is a little curious that Snape is so intently watching Lupin at the Hallowe'en feast. Of course, Snape is concerned that he has created the Wolfsbane potion correctly, but as it is now the end of October, there must have been one or two full moons during the school year preceding the events in the chapter, so there must have been at least one previous use of the potion. We must assume that Snape's concern also occurred on those occasions, but that the Trio did not note it because they were as yet unaware of the use of the potion.
 
Just as a side note, we should mention that it was very risky for Lupin to be on the Hogwarts Express. If a full moon occurred near 31 October, the previous one would have fallen near 2 October, and the one before that on 3 or 4 September. As the Hogwarts Express travels on 1 September, Lupin's journey would have fallen squarely into the one-week period preceding the full moon during which he must take the potion every day. It would have been extremely easy for Lupin to have missed a dose because he was in transit.
 
It is mentioned that Lavender and Parvati spend much time with Professor Trelawney. Their near-obsession with Divination extends beyond this one book; they apparently pass their Divination [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/OWL exams|OWL exams]], because in their first year of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/NEWT exams|NEWT-level studies]], in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince/Chapter 9|''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'']], both go off to Divination.
 
Though it is relatively minor plot point, it is worth noting here that Professor Lupin shows Harry the new Grindylow when he invites him to his office for tea. Several years later (in book 7), after [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Death Eaters|Death Eaters]] attack [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Order of the Phoenix|Order of the Phoenix]] members who are transporting Harry to a safe house, Lupin, to confirm Harry's identity, asks him what creature was in his office the first time Harry visited.
 
=== Connections ===
* We see Lupin's office, and Harry notes the difference between Lupin's chosen decor and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gilderoy Lockhart|Professor Lockhart's]]. Harry will note similar differences in style when visiting this same office when it is occupied by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Alastor Moody|Professor Moody]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dolores Umbridge|Professor Umbridge]].
* The Grindylow that we see in Lupin's office will be mentioned again in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 5|''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'']], when Lupin needs to confirm Harry's identity. We will also see Grindylows in the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Second Task|Second Task]] of the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Triwizard Tournament|Triwizard Tournament]], in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Goblet of Fire/Chapter 26|''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'']]; Harry will not, however, use the knowledge of the Grindylow's fragile fingers that Lupin here passes to him, to escape their clutches.