3.9 Hermione faces the Dementors

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In this episode, we covered Chapters 19. The Servant of Lord Voldemort and 20. The Dementor’s Kiss.

SUMMARY

After Snape reveals himself in the Shrieking Shack, he makes it clear that he has no intention of listening to Sirius’ side of the story. His childhood humiliation and hatred takes over. and he wants to give Sirius over to the dementors and Lupin too for supposedly helping Sirius. Shocked by how deranged Snape sounds, Harry, Ron, and Hermione take matters into their own hands and knock Snape out to give Sirius and Lupin a chance to explain. They reveal that Scabbers, the rat, was in fact Peter Pettigrew and that he faked his own death to escape getting caught by Sirius. Lots of questions that have been building up since the beginning of the book are answered in this chapter:

• Why was Scabbers losing his health?

• Why was Crookshanks obsessed with Scabbers?

• How and why did Sirius escape?

• Who was the actual secret keeper?

• Why would Peter Pettigrew not utilise all the chances he had to kill Harry?

• How did Harry end up seeing the Grim during the Quidditch match? Or did he really see the Grim?

• And more! We really like bullet points!

Harry decides that they should hand Pettigrew over to the authorities instead of letting his father’s best friends kill him and go to Azkaban. But unfortunately, on the way to the castle, Lupin transforms into a violent werewolf because it was full moon and he’d forgotten to take the wolfsbane potion. Sirius turns into a dog to protect the others from Lupin. But Pettigrew uses the chaos to attack Ron and Crookshanks and escape. The Dementors find Sirius. Harry and Hermione try their best to save him. Sirius loses it, Hermione loses it, and Harry is about to be kissed by a Dementor when a mysterious Patronus saves them. At this point, we are just very happy that Harry’s first kiss was not a Dementor.

NOTES

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