Teachers in the Night, Spiders, 2xSnape,

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 22918

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., pigwidgeon37 at y... wrote:
> 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 always wondered about that too. Maybe there are apartments/flats in 
Hogwarts for the teachers. Or maybe some of the teachers live in 
Hogsmeade. I suppose the Heads of the Houses live somewhere near the 
respective house, but then again, they might have access to a portkey 
that connects their homes to Hogwarts or they use the Floo Network 
(as Sirius did in GoF).

> 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.
> 

In SS/PS, there were examples of how Harry used magic when he was 
yonger (hair growing back after an awful haircut, apparating onto the 
school roof, the Boa constrictor) and in GoF, there is the example of 
the little wizard who blows up a slug with his father's wand. So I 
imagine that wizard children can do "magic" without using a wand and 
at a young age. And like Muggle parents, I'm sure wizard parents re-
hash the most embarassing incidents at family gatherings and the like.

> 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? 
>
 
You do have a point there. We really don't read about Flitwick or 
Sprout running to some trouble area. Hmmmm.

Rowling could very well be misdirecting us. LOL, maybe Snape really 
isn't Snape, but another DE using the polyjuice potion to infiltrate 
Dumbledore? Nah...too complex. 

Milz