Directly from the manufacturers (was PoA Chapter 14 Summary)

[*Lilith Morgana*]

No: HPFGUIDX 20559

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Rosmerta" <tmayor at m...> wrote:
> First off, before I get into my extremely-nitpicky-but-to-me-hugely-
> troublesome question below, I have to get on my soapbox for a 
minute 
> and say that I think "Snape's Grudge" is the single best-written 
> chapter in Harry Potter so far (this makes up for my recent bash of 
> JKR on the FAT issue). 

This is an enormously well-written chapter indeed! I love it. 
  
> If Snape *does* know who MWPP are 1) why call Lupin? The second 
Snape 
> sees their names appear under the very specific insults directed 
his 
> way, it would be obvious (if he knew who they were) that the 
> parchment (he doesn't yet know it's a map) is some artifact left 
over 
> from their time at Hogwarts. Why call Remus? 

Because he doesn't know. And even if he suspects in the way that only 
Snape can, he wouldn't be completely sure about it. I reckon he 
remember and recognise the insults very well from his childhood, he 
got his mind set on something but calls for Remus anyhow, to question 
him. 

> 
> 2) 
> So Snape is either asking Lupin, "Did Harry somehow get this map 
from 
> his dead father?" or "Did you, a person I already suspect as aiding 
> and abetting Sirius Black, give this map to Harry?" The former is 
> nearly impossible, given Harry's complete ignorance of his father 
pre-
> Hogwarts and his 11-year imprisonment at the Dursley's, which Snape 
> presumably knows about. So, by process of elimination, is Snape 
> really asking Lupin, "did you give this to Harry?" 

I believe he is asking that. Beacuse Snape, at this point, wants to 
get every suspicion he ever had about Remus to be true and get him 
fired. Besides, if we are focusing on the nicer version of Severus 
Snape, he would be concerned about Sirius Black and the fact that he 
has something to do with it. Call me soft, but I think Snape is doing 
his job, which is to protect Harry from Black, and he believe that 
Remus Lupin still has something to do with Sirius and therefore also 
is dangerous to trust. 

> 
> But if that is what Snape's asking--if he knows who MWPP are in 
other 
> words--it seems completely out of character (and also irresponsible 
> as a teacher and official Hogwarts gadfly) that Snape would let the 
> momentary noise of Ron bursting in and the extremely mild 
blustering 
> of Lupin distract him enough to let them all leave his office scott-
> free and with the map in tow.

I know. But he might have felt that the discussion could countinue 
more privatly. We still don't know anything about the teacher's POV 
in this story and it freaks me out at times like this. Who gives a 
knut about Harry? *grins evily*
Or, believing in the vamp-Snape, (oh, doesn't that sounds *gasp* 
intriguing?), Remus might have said something (which of course would 
be the vampire essay) that ended all conversation for the moment 
being. Sorry, but it's the most likely thing if we're not going to 
assume too much out of the canon... 

> 
> If you remove that one sentence ("directly from the manufactuers") 
> from the chapter, everything else Snape says and does before and 
> after (even the shrieking shack scenes later on) seems to indicate 
> that he of course knows who James etc. were but *doesn't* know them 
> by their nicknames, Moony Wormtail Padfoot and Prongs. In which 
case, 
> what the heck *did* Snape mean with his "manufacturers" line? 

Would also like to know that...


> ~Rosmerta
> who's been waiting for this chapter to come up so she could ask 
this 
> question--can you tell?

Lilith
who's also been waiting but still haven't got much to say, 
unfortunately!