[HPforGrownups] Re: Directly from the manufacturers (was PoA Chapter 14 S...

[devika261 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20649

In a message dated 6/11/01 11:41:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
foxmoth at qnet.com writes:


> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., devika261 at a... wrote:
> > In a message dated 6/11/01 8:39:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> >  I 
> > went back and re-read this part to see if Snape identifies the Marauder's 
> Map 
> > as a map, but he does not.  He refers to it simply as a piece of 
> parchment.  
> > I think this is further proof that Snape does not know, and did not know 
> in 
> > PoA, what the Map actually was.  
> > BTW, Snape's Grudge is definitely one of my all-time favorite chapters.  
> It's 
> > right up there with The Unexpected Task. :)
> 
> Ah, but by GoF Snape *does* know about the Map, because at the end of 
> PoA he saw it in Lupin's office and saw Lupin going out to the willow 
> on it. And of course in GoF he must know Harry's stuck on the stair 
> case, that's why he is able to look straight at him. Snape, like 
> everyone else in the school, has to know  where the trick steps are. 
>     Snape refers to the Map as a parchment because he doesn't want to 
> give anything away to Moody. He knows Moody's lying about Potter not 
> being there, which he thinks is favoritism on Moody's part, but he 
> doesn't want to tangle with ol' Mad-Eye.
> 

Very true!  I can't believe I missed that!  Sleep deprivation, probably...
Devika


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