[HPforGrownups] Some mistakes in book1???

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47795

Maria:
> 1. How could Fluffy bite Snape's leg? Fluffy is supposed to be a dog that 
> "took up the entire space between the floor and the ceiling." Wouldn't it 
> be rather hard for it to bite Snape's *leg*? If I were that dog, I'd 
> probably just bite his head off.
> 

That's a good question! I'd never thought of that.

Moreover, how did he *get to* his leg without biting through his robes, which 
should have been a bit noticible when he turned up with the other staff 
members in the girls' toilets. (In fact this makes even less sense in his 
non-canonical CWMNBM garb). I suppose, to be fair, he might have done a 
"reparo" spell on them. 

Now the boring answer, is simply that JKR hadn't thought of it either.

The alternative is that this is canon evidence of his gymnastic ability as he 
was obviously walking on his hands, thus raising his legs to the height of 
Fluffy's heads and exposing them simultaneously.

*Why* was he walking on his hands, you ask?
Do you really want to know?

Well, it was an experiment to see if that was the way to get past him.
In standing on his hands, his robes would obviously fall over his head.
Now, as Douglas Adams fans all know, the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal 
is so mind bogglingly stupid that it thinks if you can't see it, then it 
can't see you, so Snape may have been testing to see if the same applied to 
three-headed dogs.
This was a spur of the moment thing, you understand, so he had come out 
without anything to blindfold himself with.

Or perhaps he was just trying to confuse him by not looking human.

Alternatively, we don't actually know what wizards wear under their robes, so 
he might have been trying to, err,  *frighten* him into submission.

~Eloise

PS  - Maria, I think you're probably right! :-)


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