Vampire Snape/Knowing Lucius was a DE/Remus as Spy (WAS: Thoughts and questions)

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"Laura" <metslvr19 at y...> wrote:
We're told over and over again just how cunning, devious, even 
brilliant Snape is. [snip] He figures out that Harry was on the 
staircase in his invisibility cloak the night Professor Moody saved 
Harry's you-know-what.  

"rane_ab" <rane_ab at h...> wrote:
Er... No offence, but it seems to me Snape likes to blame 
*everything* on Harry. Probably, when anything goes wrong, his first 
 thought is *Potter*.  


Me:

Actually, Snape neither jumps to the conclusion that Harry is out 
and about when he shouldn't be without evidence, nor does he need to 
be particularly clever to work this one out.  The Marauder's Map is 
found in the corridor after Harry drops his egg and it begins 
screaming (this is after he's been to the prefects' bathroom to try 
to work out the clue).  Snape is familiar with the map (we know this 
in PoA).  He is aware that it was in Harry's possession during 
Harry's third year, and it is not a great leap to imagine that it is 
in Harry's possession again during his fourth year.  There are only 
two people in the castle who have screaming eggs, the other one 
being Cedric, who is probably unlikely to be out after hours 
breaking rules.  (Fleur and Viktor are not staying inside the 
castle.)  

It is not really that difficult for Snape to arrive at Harry as the 
solution to the racket in the corridor, given that he knows Harry 
has an egg and that he once had and may again have the enchanted map 
that insulted Snape so cleverly. Added to this is Snape's knowledge 
that Harry has an Invisibility Cloak, and it's really not surprising 
that Snape assumes Harry is behind what's going on.  He'd be fairly 
dim if he DIDN'T work out that Harry was involved, and we know that 
Snape is not dim, even though he is sometimes unwilling to listen to 
others (that's stubbornness, quite another issue).

So I believe Snape needs to be given credit--he really did figure 
out it was Harry, he didn't leap to a conclusion just because he 
doesn't like Harry--while not giving him TOO much credit for working 
out something that was as plain as the nose on his own face, if you 
had all of the knowledge about Harry that Snape did.

--Barb

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