Sneakoscope (was: Harry: his wealth, his scar, his prodigious talents)

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 17940

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Trina" <lj2d30 at g...> wrote:
> Morag Traynor wrote:
> 
> > Interesting how the gifts reflect the givers <snippitty, snip, 
> snip> Ron's gift is suspicion, but then it probably doesn't work 
> anyway>
> 
> Oh, but I think it really does work. Ron says it went off when he 
was 
> at dinner the night he wrote Harry's birthday letter (maybe 
Pettigrew 
> was in Ron's pocket?)  It also fires up when Harry, Hermione, and 
Ron 
> first enter the train compartment.  Scabbers/Pettigrew was there at 
> the time.  It goes off in Harry and Ron's dormitory during 
Christmas--
> again Scabbers was there, too.
> 
> Methinks that Harry ought to pay attention to the Sneakoscope.
> 
> Trina, who refuses to call H, H, & R a "troika" on the grounds it 
> makes them sound like a balalaika band.


The Sneakoscope most definitely does work.  It is delicious how JKR 
uses the ambiguity of its alarm in the course of PoA.

Haggridd