[HPforGrownups] Thoughts on PoA Snape & What Snape Knew Re-Post, was Snap...

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 48243

Give that woman a gold star.

I said:

> > Snape did not hear the part about the Marauders creating the map. He
does
> > hear Lupin identifying their aliases. However, he does not hear what
their
> > animagus forms were.
> >
> <Humongous snip of reprise of what Snape hears>
>
> >****HERE is where Snape reveals himself to the others in the Shack. Thus
> >far, the only new thing he has heard is that his old enemies, whom we
> >now call the Marauders, were unregistered animagi, and that they wrote
> >the map which so nastily insulted him earlier.
>
Eloise ventured:

> I know I'm going to regret this, O Revered Arch L.O.O.N., but don't these
two
> paragraphs contradict each other? Snape doesn't hear Lupin's original
> explanation that they created the Map (just before he enters) but *does*
hear
> the reprise as you indicated in your original post.

Caught. You're entirely correct. I was working from memory rather than the
book itself, and Lupin does indeed mention again, this time in Snape's
hearing, that he and the others made the map. I must figure out what
L.O.O.N.s do when they trip up; I really don't want to iron anything
attached to me....

However, given what I was speculating about Snape's reactions and possible
rationales for them, this adds fuel to a couple of the fires, doesn't it?
Which means, I suppose, that pickle jimmy was right in the first place. Oh,
well.

~Amanda, duly chastened L.O.O.N.