[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape & Harry(was: First meetings: Draco and Harry)

[Nicholina ODonnell]

No: HPFGUIDX 71764

jenny_ravenclaw wrote:
> You know, I never got the impression that Snape threw the jar at 
all.  
> I should go back and take another look at the scene but I thought 
the jar broke for one of two reasons:
> 1) Harry was so upset by what just happened that he involuntarily 
did 
> magic, as we've seen him do before (Aunt Marge, growing his own 
hair 
> back, sending electricity to Vernon and so on).
> 2)Snape was so upset by what happened that *he* involuntarily did 
> magic and the jars broke due to his own emotions.
> 
bibphile wrote:
>I'm not sure either.  I just seem to remember someone saying Snape 
>threw the jar.  I assumed they were right.

>I just looked it up and all it said was the the jar exploded above 
>Harry's head.  It didn't say why.


However, when Harry is reflecting about what just happened, there is this passage (OOP, p.650 av):

"What was making Harry feel so horrified and unhappy was not being shouted at or having jars thrown at him -(snip)"

So, Harry, at least, thought that Snape threw the jar.  He did have his back turned, as he was leaving and he could have been mistaken, but he thought it was thrown.

Nicholina


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