[HPforGrownups] Outsider!Snape (NOT!) (Re: Bully!Sirius, Snape's Grudge)

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 43410

Porophyria:

> For instance, I interpret this line
> 
> "Unless you are suggesting that Harry and Hermione are able to be in 
> two places at once, I'm afraid I don't see any point in troubling 
> them further" 
> 
> as telling Snape, "They used the time turner to help Sirius escape, 
> they had my approval," as Pippin says, but not so much as a warning 
> to keep this quiet as open mockery: "They used the time turner to 
> help Sirius escape, they had my approval, and there isn't a single 
> thing you can do about it. So there!" I don't think there is any 
> question of whether Snape's accusation of Harry being involved is 
> illogical: I think Snape can probably think of a dozen magical 
> reasons for how Harry and Hermione could be, or appear to be, in two 
> places at once and Dumbledore knows this. 

I think it was I who originally proposed the coded message interpretation of 
this line (with abject apologies to Pippin if it was her!)

The way I understand it, this interpretation is premised on the fact that 
there are *not* a dozen magical ways in which HH could, or appear to be, in 
two places at once. The idea originally came up in response to the question 
of what on earth Dumbledore was up to, virtually giving the game away like 
that. If there were a number of other ways that they could have done it, then 
surely Fudge would have been aware them too and Dumbledore would have been 
risking ringing alarm bells by raising the topic of bi-location.

It was only safe for Dumbledore to give a coded warning to Snape to shut up 
if he and he alone understood the message. If, in other words the way which 
Snape knew they were able to be in two places at once was the only way - and 
it was so unlikely and so impossible that a student would have access to that 
way that Fudge would not suspect it.

I'm not taking you up on the nature of Snape and Dumbledore's relationship as 
a whole, but I really don't think that this incident is an example of open 
mockery.

Eloise





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