[HPforGrownups] Teachers in the Night, 2xSnape,

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 22915

Susanna wrote:

>Hi, everybody,
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Hi and welcome back
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>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???

I think the answer is we don't know.  In the Red Nose day chat (on hp galleries for the citation-minded) JKR was asked about teachers' spouses and said that some do havethem but it's restricted information, so presumably sleeping is the same.  McGonagall and her hair net are not for from Gryffindor Tower by magical distance measuring, so Snape as chief Slyth could well be in the dungeons, in whatever posture is most comfortable for him.

>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.

He does a mean expelliarmus on Lockhart, and taught Draco serpensortia.  He was less successful with the marauder's map.  He countered Quirrell's attack on Harry's broomstick, IIRC without a wand.  He's an effective wizard.  I think that while McG is *the* deputy HM (Brit schools usually only have one) for school matters, Snape is Dumbledore's no. 2 for the fight against Voldemort (a good reason for *not* being DADA prof.).  Snape takes this very seriously, so he turns up when anything dodgy is going on.

>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? 
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It could be Bagman = coward, Karkaroff = left forever (because he turned MOM evidence), Snape still trusted or Snape now completely beyond the pale.  I have wondered how to interpret Snape's comment to K: Flee, I will make your excuses.  Excuses to whom?  The surface interpretation is to Hogwarts, but perhaps Snape refers to Voldemort.  This would require K knowing Snape is a traitor to V, but V not knowing it, unlikely IMO.

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