[HPforGrownups] Re: Sneakoscope (was: Harry: his wealth, his scar, his prodigious talents)

[Cait Hunter]

No: HPFGUIDX 17945

>From: "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Sneakoscope (was: Harry: his wealth, his scar, 
>his prodigious talents)
>Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 02:13:28 -0000
>
>--- 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

Also, consider in GOF. The FAKE Mad Eye Moody had a bunch of them in his 
office. Maybe he broke them himself to keep them from alerting others to HIS 
... um.. impersonation? What exactly sets one off, anyway?


Cait

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