Snape ponderings

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 41406

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> wrote:

> I've been doing some thinking about Snape as I've been rereading 
CoS.  What on earth was Snape doing wandering around hunting for 
Harry and Ron during the feast?  If students were known missing, 
surely the head of their house would've been in charge of searching?  
Or why not send Hagrid out to look around?  Why Snape?  Was 
he "worried" about Harry?  Still thinking he had to look out for him 
and protect him?
> 

Hadn't thought of it like that. Your theory is entirely possible.

On the other hand, Dumbledore probably didn't want to start a panic 
among the students. He probably sent his fastest owls to Molly and 
Arthur, had Hagrid stop the train and search it and then dispatched 
Snape to search the grounds. My guess...just a guess... is that Snape 
was the teacher who was the most capable and would be the least 
missed if he wasn't at the Sorting Feast.

But it would be amusing to think of Snape, in whatever tortured paths 
go on in that greasy head, to say: "Damn it, that little bastard has 
gotten himself lost AGAIN! I wish James had let Lupin kill me!"



> Second, why was Snape making such a big deal over the damage to 
the "very valuable Whomping Willow?"  I'd have thought he would hate 
that tree after his near death encounter with Lupin way back.  That 
it would've been a reminder of all those things he hated.  Any 
thoughts on this?
> 


Well, Snape is the only one outside of the Mauraders, Dumbledore and 
whatever faculty and staff were at Hogwarts when Lupin as a student 
to know what the tree is really for. 

On the other hand, I think that if Harry and Ron had run into the 
garbage dumpsters behind the kitchen, Snape would have made a big 
deal about the dent they made.

Darrin