[HPforGrownups] RE: Snape ponderings

[LD]

No: HPFGUIDX 41411

Richelle 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?

I'd say that ordinarily you'd be right, and the head of house would be
in charge of the search operation; but McGonagall had to deal with the
first years and the sorting ceremony. She would have been missed too
much, so Dumbledore probably sent Snape out because he seems to be the
next in the chain of command (GoF, where Dumbledore has Snape and
McGonagall help him to deal with Barty Jr.). 

Although I like to think that Snape 'volunteered' as part of that whole
life-debt-to-james thing going on beneath those greasy locks. Poor guy.

-LD