A strange silver instrument

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86441

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Berit Jakobsen" 
<belijako at o...> wrote:
> 
Berit:
> 
> Just an interesting little detail I forgot in my previous post on 
> Harry's link and connection to the heir of Slytherin and to the 
> Slytherin house:
> 
> In the duelling scene in CoS, Snape deliberately forces Harry to 
> reveal he is a parselmouth. Why would Snape be so interested in 
> knowing this? And more importantly; why did he suspect Harry was 
one? 


Geoff:
I hate to quibble, but the above is wrong and a number of following 
posts have followed it up wrongly.

The development of the scene is -

Snape did not force Harry to reveal that he was a parselmouth. It 
was /Malfoy/ who conjured up the snake. Snape says: 
'Don't move Potter...... I'll get rid of it.'

Before that can happen, Lockhart intervenes in his usually pushy way 
and manages to project the snake ten feet into the air.

Before anything else can happen, the snake has moved towards Justin F-
F, Harry has rushed across and:
"he shouted stupidly at the snake, 'Leave him!'

Quotes from COS p.145 UK edition.

Which doesn't fit with your suggested scenario above.

On the subject of the silver instrument, this has been discussed 
before in a thread "The Smoke Serpent" which I opened at mesage 79231 
and ran through to 79337.

Geoff