Surprises (was: Dumbledore and MoM)

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 19658

At 03:22 PM 5/26/01 +0000, rja.carnegie at excite.com wrote:
>Unless you were reading the books out of order, becoming acquainted
>with JKR's taste for misdirection and the surprise at the end,
>or unless you got a hint elsewhere, I don't see why you'd suspect
>Quirrell instead of Snape at that moment - Harry doesn't!

I never suspected Quirrell for a second... And indeed, it was when
I first reached the words, "But it wasn't Snape... It was Quirrell.";
that I really knew for the first time that this was not going to be any
ordinary fantasy series!  (It was the first genuine surprise I'd gotten
from a work of fiction since the age of six when I first read the
revelation of the long-lost Princess Ozma's true whereabouts, at the
end of the second Oz book!)



                         -- Dave