Digest Number 46

[Joanne0012 at aol.com]

> codex79 at y... wrote:
> > 
> > Then there was the Quidditch game, when Harry's broom was bewitched.
> > For some reason, I always imagined Snape and Quirrell to be on almost
> > opposite sides of the pitch, so that Snape could keep an eye on
> > Quirrell. How would Snape know what's up if Quirrell was all the way
> > behind him? He couldn't possibly have heard the spell, because other
> > professors would hear it too.

I think Snape didn't even know it WAS Quirrel who was casting the spell on 
Harry's broom -- he just knew that SOMEBODY was.  If he knew it was Quirrell, 
all he would have to do was turn around and break Q's concentration/eye 
contact.  As it was, he couldn't take his eyes off Harry, so *wherever* Quirrell 
was, he couldn't "Keep an eye on him."