[HPforGrownups] Re: Waspy Snape

[Carolin Mönkemeyer]

No: HPFGUIDX 78430





> Talisman, reviewing her field-guide to insects, notes:
>
> Many people seem to like the "Dumbledore means Bumblebee so he's the
> wasp" idea. Me? I say the fact that a Lily is a plant doesn't
> support the idea that Pottermum is the _Mimbulus mimbletonia_.
>
> Still I agree that the buzzing wasp that distracts Harry, as he is
> slipping into his ultimate Legilimency moment, is significant. (OoP
> 725)
>
> And I think we've seen that wasp before.
>
>
> Now who could it be?   (Well, you should know me by now.)
>
> I've only noticed one character who is described in waspish terms.
>
> "Snape prowled through the fumes, making waspish remarks about the
> Gryffindors . . .."  (CoS 186)
>
> "`I am here on Dumbledore's orders,' said Snape, whose voice, by
> contrast, was becoming more and more quietly waspish . . .." (OoP
> 518)
>
> Too right you are, Baby.
>
> If anyone notices this adjective applied to another character,
> please let me know.
>
> Talisman, who says, yes that's fangs and a stinger, for anyone who
> is keeping count.  I don't even want to hear what Freud has to say.
>
Me:
I am sorry to disagree. I have the Germand copy and ot the books and if it
would be so important as you suggest, it would have been in there too,
wouldn't it? I more think it has a double meaning (one "real" and one
figurative), because something like that in German would sound very odd. For
it isn't there and nothing that comes close to it that suggests a wasp I
don't think Snape is a wasp or has any other relation to it than using it in
his potions.

Yours Finchen