Musings on discrepancies/anomalies (?)

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 69109

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "D.G." <dgwhiteis at h...> wrote:
> even Snape kicked Harry out 
> of his office rather than threaten to discipline him (granted that 
> since Snape had been charged with tutoring Harry, he might not have 
> been able to carry out that threat.

If he tried to have Harry punished, he would also have to explain why 
he placed the memories in the pensieve while Harry was there for 
Potions tutoring.  If he was using it to study the memories himslef, 
one would assume hewould return them to his own head before moving on 
to another task, such as teaching.

> 2.  Maybe I'm misunderstanding somethinng -- but according to 
Snape's 
> own memories, he 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.

in OOP (p712, US edition) "Well, it wasn't too bad, was it?" asked 
Hermione anxiously in the entrance hall two hours later, still 
clutching the exam paper.  They turn their answers in, but are able 
to keep the questions.

While the older students offer them aids to help with the exams, we 
don't see anyone offering copies of last year's exams - are they 
forbidden from doing that?  Maybe that's why Snape removed that 
memory - to keep Harry from seeing a copy of an old exam.