Teachers in the Night, Spiders, 2xSnape,

[pigwidgeon37 at yahoo.it]

No: HPFGUIDX 22907

Hi, everybody,

how come that holidays are always too short (except for Harry, of 
course)? I'm back, have caught up with all the mail and, as I 
obviously had all 4 books with me and re-read them, there are some 
more or less new points I'd like to discuss:

1)Where do Hogwarts teachers sleep? (And please don't answer me that 
Snape sleeps hanging feet up head down in a dungeon!) I've found lots 
of offices mentioned, where teachers have tea, keep their stuff etc., 
but obviously they don't sleep in there. So where???

2)Ron's story about his fear of spiders: When he was 3 years old, 
Gred or Forge turned his Teddy bear into a spider. That is a tricky 
bit of transfiguration, how could it be done by a 5 year-old? So 
either the story is completely made up by Ron, because he's ashamed 
of admitting that he's simply afraid of spiders without any 
particular reason, or somebody else turned the teddy into a spider, 
or there is more to the twins than we actually think.

3)Why is Snape always there when Dumbledore&McGonagall show up? 
(Troll scene in PS/SS, ruining of the Fat Lady in PoA, when Harry's 
name comes out of the Goblet, just to quote some of them)
He's always there, even if no student of his own house is involved. 
Given that we know of only one deputy Headmaster, which is of course 
McGonagall, what's so special about Snape that his presence in cases 
of crisis is indispensable? Is he as skilled with the wand as he is 
with the cauldron? Canon gives no such hint, on the contrary, the 
inly time Snape uses a wand (please correct me if I'm wrong) is to 
blast apart rose bushes during the Yule Ball.
Second Snape- problem: Are we really sure that JKR isn't deliberately 
misleading us, making us believe that the DE who has left V. forever 
is Snape and the one too coward to return is Karkaroff? Snape has 
turned his back on Voldemort well before V.'s downfall so why would 
V. say "one I *believe* has left me forever"? It's absolutely clear 
he has left. Couldn't this statement point in a different direction, 
namely that the coward is Karkaroff, but the one who has left is 
somebody we either don't know or don't yet know as a DE? And Snape 
would simply not be mentioned? 

Susanna (*very* curious to read your opinions!)