Teachers in the Night, Spiders, 2xSnape,

[monzaba at poczta.onet.pl]

No: HPFGUIDX 22936

--- 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!) 

Nooo, he sleeps in a night shirt! He would have looked ridiculous 
hanging from a ceiling :)

> 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 assumed that they have their rooms behind their offices. 
Harry never really investigated a teacher's office, so we don't know 
for sure.

> 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 use his wand quite a lot and with success.

I think Snape is sort of "third in command", and if both Dumbledore 
and McGonagall had left, he would be put in charge. 

His natural - er - inquisitiveness may also explain why he appears so 
often where he's neither indispensable nor welcome. 

Besides, Snape seems to be a better companion in a time of crisis 
than, say, Professor Trelawney :)

Sure, both Flitwick and Sprout seem to be able to deal with any 
emergency, but Flitwick is a bit too old and - how to put it? - 
delicate (?), and I don't believe Sprout has any significant 
experience with Dark wizards. Anyway, Snape's just better.

Monika
(The Snape fan)