Musings on discrepancies/anomalies (?)

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

No: HPFGUIDX 68916

D.G. wrote:

> I'm very surprised that entering someone's private memories via a 
> Penseive isn't a very serious violation, punishable by expulsion.  
<snip>
>      All in all, it seems that plunging into a Penseive and 
observing 
> someone else's private memories is not a punishable offense, or at 
> least has never been defined as one.  Isn't this rather strange?


It seems to me that Snape was so humiliated that he couldn't even 
bear to look at Harry. I think by taking his memories out of the 
penseive he is trying to deny them himself- and I don't think he 
would've wanted to admit to how humiliating they made him feel. I 
thought that if he took the matter to Dumbledore he would've had to 
explain what was so humiliating about the memories and not only be 
forced to relive it, but would come off to Dumbledore as a grown man 
still harbouring a grudge from his teen years. Besides, I think that 
in the circumstances he couldn't really get Harry expelled anyway, 
seeing as Harry is everyone's favourite and is protected by all, and 
stopping the Occlumency lessons was a far worse punishment anyway- as 
it ultimately lead to Sirius's death.


D.G. wrote:

[Snape] took his exam parchment out of the classroom and 
> continued perusing it underneath a tree, as his classmates hung 
> around nearby.  How could this be?  I thought all parchments were 
> collected after the exam time was over.


I assumed that it was the question paper. I thought that there would 
be separate blank answer parchments and ones with the questions 
written on them. Of course, this is just my own experience of school 
examinations talking. Besides- Snape seemed very into his acadmenic 
performance, if someone is going to keep the exam questions and 
continue to study them afterwoods, Snape seems like he would.

~<(Laurasia)>~