What Snape knew

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No: HPFGUIDX 35305

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amanda" <editor at t...> wrote:
> > So before any of you start ragging on Snape again, that he heard 
the truth
> and just chose to ignore it, look and see what it can be said with 
certainty
> that Snape really did hear. He was either not yet in the room, or 
out cold,
> for the revelations that would have allowed him to entertain any 
of what
> *we* know is the truth.

OK so us relative newbies miss the odd post or several thousand in 
33000. You did certainly deal very comprehensively with the sequence 
of events in the shrieking Shack and I am sorry if I seemed to be 
rehashing old ground. However it is very rare to come up with 
genuinely new stuff. I think in four years of studying English at 
University I can only pride myself on one genuinely original theory 
about a particular poet. At least I never saw it expounded anywhere 
else though it earned me some alpha marks when I included it in a 
dissertation. I'm not saying our thoughts and opinions are not our 
own. Just that it's almost inevitable that someone else has also got 
there first. And since this group has been going for some years, 
clearly those of us new to it will pick up old threads again not 
realising they have already been well unravelled. 

Seriously I appreciate the analysis and I didn't mean to imply or 
suggest that Snape knew everything that was said. He did, I 
recognise, miss most of the important stuff. It just seemed that he 
might have heard enough to give him pause for thought, if he had 
been capable of thinking rationally at that point. And I accept that 
he was so convinced both of Sirius' guilt and Lupin's collusion that 
he wasn't really open to other perspectives. Why though did he stay 
invisible for at least 10 minutes worth of conversation? Why not 
reveal himself as soon as he was in the room or as soon as he had 
weighed up the situation? He listened in for quite a while. 

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