[HPforGrownups] Re: Let's hear it for good old Snapey!

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 87880


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Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:57 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Let's hear it for good old Snapey!


> The implication is that between buying his books and getting to
> Hogwarts Harry showed insufficient interest or enthusiasm to open
> books which would have given him insight into a whole new world.
> Could you have left them unread?

I'm not sure what HP and the SS/PS you read, but in the edition I read (UK
Adult paperback, p. 102) is this paragraph:

    Harry forced himself to keep looking straight into those cold eyes. He
*had* looked through his books at the Dursleys', but did Snape     expect
him to remember everything in *One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi?*

You seem to be a victim of binary thinking, dividing the class into
"dummies" and "smart arses". In life actually, there's a huge middle group,
neither dummy nor smart arse, who are wonderfully diverse, average people.

Suzanne