God, this chapter just starts to put into a nutshell what a bad idea it was for JKR to try to write WAR here. As you say, the actual bad things happening are hardly addressed. Who cares about Muggleborns when Harry doesn't know if Dumbledore loved him a hundred years before he was born?
And how dumb is the WW? Everybody at the Ministry's just happily going along with this "stealing magic" idea even though no, it really doesn't make sense (and when Ron says something doesn't make sense it must be really obvious it doesn't make sense). But no, these guys will swallow anything.
Meanwhile yeah, the Remus thing. You know, he could have pursued Tonks just to sleep with her and now just not want to be tied down and hate kids and he'd still be the only adult in the Potterverse smart enough to actually want to be part of the resistance against Voldemort here. Instead--dear god, just let this sham of a marriage end. I've never seen such a pathetic couple. I was never an R/S shipper until this book where Remus' marriage comes across as one big mistake (of which Tonks is clueless) except for his liking having a baby. In the end his last appearance is where he's happily ditched Tonks again and is with Sirius. Hurray!
The reading of the newspaper also gets up to monstrous proportions in this chapter. Which makes sense because all the alleged "juicy" stuff is in the past. Harry and the Trio have no plan, no real mystery to solve. It all just drops into their laps. So the only way they figure out stuff is to have it come to them via infodumps--so a clue about where a Horcrux might be might as well be another stupid story about Dumbledore's past that has no bearing on anything whatsoever.
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And how dumb is the WW? Everybody at the Ministry's just happily going along with this "stealing magic" idea even though no, it really doesn't make sense (and when Ron says something doesn't make sense it must be really obvious it doesn't make sense). But no, these guys will swallow anything.
Meanwhile yeah, the Remus thing. You know, he could have pursued Tonks just to sleep with her and now just not want to be tied down and hate kids and he'd still be the only adult in the Potterverse smart enough to actually want to be part of the resistance against Voldemort here. Instead--dear god, just let this sham of a marriage end. I've never seen such a pathetic couple. I was never an R/S shipper until this book where Remus' marriage comes across as one big mistake (of which Tonks is clueless) except for his liking having a baby. In the end his last appearance is where he's happily ditched Tonks again and is with Sirius. Hurray!
The reading of the newspaper also gets up to monstrous proportions in this chapter. Which makes sense because all the alleged "juicy" stuff is in the past. Harry and the Trio have no plan, no real mystery to solve. It all just drops into their laps. So the only way they figure out stuff is to have it come to them via infodumps--so a clue about where a Horcrux might be might as well be another stupid story about Dumbledore's past that has no bearing on anything whatsoever.