A strange silver instrument

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 86444

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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.
> 
Berit replies:

Sorry to disagree with you Geoff :-) But I don't think I am wrong... 
The reason I am saying Snape threw the snake at Harry, is that it is 
implied it was Snape that suggested to Draco he use the snake spell 
against Harry (Snape whispers in Draco's ear seconds before Draco 
throws his spell). It was not Draco's idea. Therefore it ultimately 
is Snape that throws the snake at Harry. I also know that Lockhart 
intervened in the middle of the fight, complicating things a little. 
But that doesn't mean Snape's intent was not to confront Harry with a 
snake to see what would happen...

Thanks for the reference to earlier discussions on the topic :-)

Berit