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[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ron Weasley|Ron]] remain furious at [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione]] for Harry's new Firebolt being confiscated, causing Hermione to often avoid the common room. Holidays end, and the night before classes start, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Oliver Wood|Oliver Wood]] corners Harry and asks if he has his [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Dementor|Dementor]] problem sorted out. Harry says that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Remus Lupin|Professor Lupin]] has promised to help with that. Oliver asks about a new [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Brooms|broom]], and Ron tells him about the Firebolt. Oliver thinks it is unlikely it was sent by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sirius Black|Black]], a fugitive on the run. He promises to make [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Minerva McGonagall|Professor McGonagall]] see sense.
Classes start but are no fun. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rubeus Hagrid|Hagrid]], however, has cheered up, and for his first lesson has a large bonfire filled with flame-loving [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Salamander|salamanders]]. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sibyll Trelawney|Professor Trelawney]] has moved the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Divination|Divination]] class on to palmistry and wastes no time in pronouncing that Harry has the shortest life lines she has ever seen. Harry is eager for [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Defence Against the Dark Arts|Defence Against the Dark Arts]] class and Professor Lupin's promised anti-Dementor lessons. Ron mentions that Lupin looks sick and wonders what is wrong with him. Hermione, overhearing, remarks that it is obvious, but does not elaborate.
Later that evening, Harry meets with Lupin, who is carrying a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Boggart|Boggart]] in a case. Lupin says it will turn into a Dementor against which Harry can practice. Lupin teaches Harry the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Expecto Patronum|Patronus charm]], saying Harry must recall a happy memory. Harry, concentrating, causes white vapour to eject from his wand. He is ready for a test. The Boggart is released and appears as a Dementor. Harry tries casting a Patronus, but hearing his mother's screams, passes out. Lupin brings him around and gives him a Chocolate Frog. Harry wants to try again and selects a new memory. This time he hears the screaming and also his father's voice, then faints. When he revives, Harry says this time he heard his father; Lupin, looking shaken, admits that he knew [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/James Potter|James]] and suggests calling it a night. But Harry wants to continue and remembers the day he learned he was a Wizard and would be leaving the Dursleys. The Boggart is released. Harry tries to conjure a Patronus, and again
Ravenclaw plays Slytherin and loses by a slim margin. This cheers Oliver Wood because if Gryffindor can beat Ravenclaw, they will be in second place. Wood increases practice to five times a week, which combined with weekly anti-Dementor lessons leaves Harry only one night a week for homework. Hermione seems to have it worse, though she is somehow is getting to all her classes, even those which seemed to be at the same time. Oliver tells Harry that the Firebolt will not be returned immediately. Oliver felt that Harry flying a jinxed broom would not be a problem if he won the match before it threw him off, though McGonagall, for some reason he is unable to fathom, felt this was rather insensitive. He suggests Harry order a Nimbus 2001, but Harry declines.
The anti-Dementor lessons are not going well either. Despite his earlier success, Harry can now only produce a thin, silvery mist. After one long session, Professor Lupin brings out Butterbeer from the Three Broomsticks. Harry nearly lets it slip that he has been there. They discuss Dementors, and Lupin says the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Ministry of Magic|Ministry]] has given the Dementors permission to administer the "Kiss"
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== Analysis ==
Harry's struggle with the anti-Dementor lessons somewhat mirrors his own life. When he initially fails in something, rather than giving up, his determination compels him to keep trying until he gets it right. It is also telling that Harry must struggle to find a memory that is happy enough for an effective Patronus. Harry's initial failure may have an underlying cause, however: he now realizes that
Lupin's admission that he not only knew James and Lily Potter, but also Sirius Black, is surprising; it has added to the mystery, though Lupin avoids elaborating on this connection. His reluctance in sharing Harry's opinion that Black, responsible for so many deaths, including that of the Potters, deserves to have his soul sucked out, seems to show great compassion and forgiveness, even for someone who committed such heinous acts against innocent people, including those Lupin cared about. However, Lupin's feelings may be conflicted for other reasons.
While Harry is dejected over his destroyed Nimbus 2000 and angry about the confiscated Firebolt, these are losses he could easily afford to replace with the considerable fortune his parents left him. His reluctance to do so is directly related to his emotional upset over losing the brooms. Rather than finding a workable solution, his anger, stubbornness, and emotional immaturity
Although the Firebolt's return patches the rift between Hermione and the boys, a new one erupts over Scabbers's apparent killing by Crookshanks. While the evidence is only circumstantial, it strongly suggests that Crookshanks is guilty. This rift is perhaps even harder on Hermione, who, already massively overburdened by her schoolwork and
Hermione also focuses readers' attention on yet another mystery: Lupin frequently looks ill and often misses classes. She apparently knows why, though, still angry at Harry and Ron, she refuses to say anything further, leaving them to figure it out for themselves.
There is yet another of the series' endemic date and schedule contradictions here. The anti-Dementor lesson that Harry is leaving when he runs into McGonagall on her way to return his Firebolt to him is said to be his fifth – he has been unable to produce more than a faint mist in the four lessons since the first successful one; and the first lesson was in the first week of classes, "soon after the New Year". As these lessons are supposed to be every week, by that count, it can be no later than early February. However, it is only two days later that they have the match with Ravenclaw. Less than a week later, Harry and Ron visit Hagrid and find that they are only a day away from the hearing at the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, which is April 20th. By that count, Scabbers should have vanished about 12 April, and Harry should have had about 12 lessons rather than 4; with perhaps three of them interrupted by Professor Lupin's "illness", there should still have been at least nine anti-Dementor lessons. While it's certainly true that as a teacher, Lupin will have had other things to deal with and would likely not have been able to fit twelve lessons in, still we are left with the impression that these lessons are meant to be every week, rather than every three weeks. In this case, the schedule confusion does cause a small problem in the story, as the compression at this point leads us to believe that the end-of-term exams are happening in about March.
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# What is wrong with Lupin? How did Hermione figure it out? Why does she refuse to elaborate?
# Is Ron justified in assuming that Crookshanks killed Scabbers? What is the evidence and is it conclusive?
# How does
# Lupin tells Harry that Sirius Black was a student at Hogwarts the same time he was. Is it possible he knows Black better than he is letting on? Explain.
# Why might Lupin disagree with Harry about Black deserving the "Dementor's Kiss"?
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Hermione,
Knowing that Lupin is a Werewolf, and seeing the Boggart's effect on Harry, leaves a small contradiction. Clearly the Boggart, in Dementor form, has the same magical effect on Harry that a real Dementor would, leaving Harry despairing and bringing horrible, buried memories to mind. And yet, when the Boggart assumes the silvery orb form, representing Lupin's fear of the full moon, it has no affect on him. One can only surmise that this is similar to a "placebo effect": if you believe something will affect you, it quite often does. To this end, the Boggart-as-Dementor is believable as being something that could be present in the classroom, and it affects Harry, who, still a child, is unable to handle his emotions well, because he believes that it will affect him. The Boggart-as-full-moon inside a classroom is unbelievable, and therefore it has no effect on Lupin, who, as an adult, understands what Boggarts actually are and likely already knows what shape it assumes, thus allowing him to cope with them differently than Harry.
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Neville is technically blameless for losing the password list—Crookshanks stole it at Sirius Black's request. Black will use it two nights hence to enter Gryffindor tower. That event causes some confusion, however, as Black apparently attacks Ron, rather than Harry, his supposed target; it is actually the departed Scabbers, who regularly slept in Ron's bed, that Black is hunting. It is worth noting, however, that Neville losing the list is a well-crafted plot device by the author; Neville has always been characterized as having memory problems, particularly with passwords, so his losing the list perfectly fits his character. However, even though it was stolen rather than lost, making and keeping such a list on his person, with others knowing about it, was still a rather careless act. As a result, it exposed Harry and others to great danger.
Lupin is apparently torn over Sirius Black's potential fate. Not only do we learn that Lupin attended school with
We see a recurring pattern throughout the story: whenever someone wonders how Hermione can be taking so many classes, there is promptly some interruption that ends further speculation. It is a tribute to the author's skill that these interruptions, rather than being contrived, seem like normal occurrences, or as normal as they can be in the situation. Scabbers' "death" is such an occurrence, interrupting Harry's musing about the topic. While this event is extraordinary, it is not entirely unexpected. Like Ron and, to a lesser extent, Harry, we can see that Crookshanks has been targeting Scabbers ever since he entered the story in the Magical Menagerie in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Diagon Alley|Diagon Alley]]. Thus Scabbers' apparent demise, seemingly at Crookshanks' claws, while somewhat surprising, is still a natural progression, making the interruption seem quite natural.
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