Odd parallels and FEATHERBOAS

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 36721

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
> What doesn't make sense to me is why Snape leaves the castle at 
all 
> if he's not going to bring the potion?  Snape doesn't know there 
is a 
> cloak available, he doesn't know the trio is out at night, he 
doesn't 
> know about Black.  Snape has to believe Lupin is going to the 
Shack 
> to transform because there's no foundation at all for Snape to 
> believe anything else.  

Yeah, that does seem a bit, uhm... plot-driven, doesn't it?  My 
fanwank for it is that the potion is volatile, so that shlepping it 
from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade would destroy its magical properties; and 
that Snape was hoping to catch up to Lupin before the transformation 
and bring him back to the castle to take the potion.  It was risky, 
of course -- he might've ended up encountering a transformed Lupin --
 but hey, Snape is a fully trained wizard now, with advance warning 
of what he might be facing, not a terrified sixteen-year-old who was 
caught by surprise.  If Lupin transformed and attacked him, why then 
Snape would be forced to injure or kill him, and wouldn't that be a 
shame, boo-hoo.  <vision of Snape crying crocodile tears>

This also fits in with hints given earlier in the book that Snape is 
still afraid of Lupin.  Maybe that fear's been eating away at him, 
and Snape was actually looking for an excuse to face the werewolf 
and prove to himself that he no longer needs arrogant Quidditch 
jocks to rescue him in such situations.

> When Snape gets to the Willow, he sees the cloak.  Cloaks are 
rare, 
> so we could assume that Snape actually recognizes this particular 
> cloak (lying there in the dark) as belonging to James.  It's a 
rather 
> wobbly theory, but we have to go there because we have no choice

Well, the dark wouldn't be a problem as Snape is perfectly capable 
of casting Lumos. I have no problem believing that he picked up the 
cloak, examined it, and recognized it.  But even if he didn't 
recognize it, the mere presence of the cloak indicated that there 
was somebody else in the shack with Lupin, someone who didn't want 
to be seen.  When Snape got to the shack and realized that Harry was 
there, he would've figured out that the cloak was most likely James'.

Marina
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