[HPforGrownups] Some Questions, if I may

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 4977

At 01:16 PM 11/1/00 -0500, stephanie75 at aol.com wrote:
>How had Slytherin won the house cup 6 years in a row? If they haven't won the
>Quidditch cup alll of those years also, where are they getting the points?
>Cheating? They don't seem to be the most intelligent, was Snape giving them
>extra points or something? Something's fishy!!

I imagine Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle are not typical of the intellectual
caliber of Slytherins.

>In PoA, Hermine was allowed to use a timeturner to take extra classes. It
>says the use of one is closely watched by the ministry. I suppose you can't
>use it to change history or prevent deaths, I imagine that is why they are
>under such supervision by the ministry, if anyone could do it,no one would
>ever die or make a mistake etc. But couldn't a powerful wizard like Voldemort
>get one from somewhere? Wouldn't he keep going back to one of the three times
>he has had Harry(since he has been grown) and kill him straight away instead
>of wasting time and telling Harry how he accomplished coming back?

I think toying around with the Time Turner is very risky amd V knows it.  All
the time anomalies could result in things like V getting erased from History
altogether!

Still, every time V and the Time Turner are mentioned in the same breath, I 
think
about my "Slytherin Ouroboros" theory, which states that the reason some 
editions
of _CoS_ have Dumbledore say V was Salazaar Slytherin's *ancestor* was that V
went back in time to father SS, who begat the Slytherin line leading to V, 
who went
back in time to father SS, who...ad infinitum.

>And the big one is why does Snape hate Harry so much? I know why he hates
>Harry's dad and James' friends, and he thinks that Harry thinks he's special
>and above rules. But if Snape is so trusted by Dumbledore I would think he
>was a respnsible adult. Instead he acts like a jealous 10 year old holding a
>grudge against an innocent person. He has never given Harry a chance.I would
>think he would respect him a little for all the good things he's done.
>Vanquishing Voldemort several times!

I think Snape wants to be the big hero in the war against V.  He resents
the fact that this no-account son of his old rival is doing it all instead of
"Sir Severus, Order of Merlin"...



                                                 -- Dave