Snape and the Foe-Glass (was: Where is Snape????)

[Talisman]

No: HPFGUIDX 78307

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
>  
> You know, I'd never thought until now about exactly how the Foe-
> Glass works.  I'd assumed it was like the Mirror of Erised, and 
its reflection agreed with whoever was standing directly in front of 
> it.  But it sounds as if it's "set" to be used by one owner.  I 
> thought that Harry saw Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape because he 
> wasn't looking directly at it.  Frankly, I thought that Snape was 
> looking at the Foe-Glass because it would be able to show him HIS 
> enemy (and what if that was himself?)
> > Wanda

Talisman, who knows she's supposed to be doing _something_else, says:

Unless such defensivly magical objects are "set" per owner, all the 
rememberalls would go off every time I walked into the room.

Seriously, under your earlier theory, if Harry was able to see Jr.'s 
foes only because he was not directly in front of the Foe-Glass, it 
amounts to the same result.  Snape was there. (Although logistics 
are always tricky in these scenes, it seems DD, McG and S WERE in 
front of it, and they are not all foes to themselves/each other or 
Harry.)
                              F
                              o
         McG   D              e
            DD o    H  Jr.*   X
           S   o              G 
               r              l
                              a
                              s
                              s 
*(mirror (X) in line with where Jr.'s head used to be, Jr. now on 
floor)(GoF 679)

Can't deny Snape is his own worst enemy, though. The lovely brooding 
darling that he is.

Talisman, who is going to be good one of these days.