Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Harry Potter dành cho Muggle/Truyện/Phòng Chứa Bí Mật/Chương 18”

The remaining year is peaceful. The only grim face is [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Draco Malfoy|Draco Malfoy]]'s, as Lucius was fired from the school's Board of Directors. On the train back home, Harry asks Ginny about what [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Percy Weasley|Percy]] did not want her to tell anyone. Ginny reveals that Percy has a girlfriend, the same [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Penelope Clearwater|Penelope Clearwater]] who was Petrified with Hermione. She saw Percy and Penelope snogging (US: kissing). [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Fred and George Weasley|Fred and George]] intend to have some fun with Percy about this over the summer, while Harry, not expecting to have any fun at all, asks Hermione and Ron to telephone him so they can arrange to meet. And then the train pulls into [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Platform 9 and Three Quarters|Platform Nine and Three Quarters]].

 

 

Having used the time-honoured technique, where the villain explains to the hero exactly what happened, in the previous chapter, the author completes the story by laying out the parts that the other characters played in the events. We learn here that the Diary originated with Lucius Malfoy, and that Dobby, as suspected, was his House-elf. We also suspect that Dumbledore perhaps knew much about what had been going on, but may have been constrained from acting, possibly by forces still unknown to us. Finally, we also see, with almost breakneck speed, the Basilisk victims' recovery, Hagrid's return, the school year's closing days, and the return trip to London on the Hogwarts Express. Ginny is naturally quite distraught over her role in helping Tom Riddle, even though she was entirely blameless due to her being possessed by Riddle's Diary. It is unknown whether or not Lucius Malfoy specifically chose her before setting his plan into motion or if he only happened upon an opportune moment to slip Ginny the Diary while at Flourish & Blotts in Diagon Alley. Other than it being a convenient time to pass on the Diary, he may also have been motivated to use Ginny based on his disdain for the Weasley family in general, and his dislike for Mr. Weasley in particular. Overall, it seems a poor choice by Malfoy, considering how close Harry has become to the Weasleys; once Harry became aware that something was amiss with one of the Weasley children, he could more easily trace this back to Voldemort.

Harry also failed to consider that even if he was Slytherin's descendant, then so was one half of his family, yet both his parents were sorted into Gryffindor. Just how and why the Sorting Hat makes a final determination regarding which House a student is sorted into is not entirely understood, though the students' individual preferences are apparently considered, as well as family tradition. It appears most students are generally satisfied with the Sorting Hat's choice. Whether or not a student can request a change of House after being Sorted is unknown, but interesting to consider.

 

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