Dumbledore and TrustSnape rant

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 73829

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Neotoma73 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 7/27/03 7:42:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Geoff 
Bannister" <gbannister10 at a...> writes:
> 
> As a side issue to this - my apologies if this has been covered 
in the past - is to ask the question as to why Harry's attention 
really focussed in on Snape at the beginning when his scar hurt when 
Snape looked at him:
> > 
> > "It happened very quickly. The hook-nosed teacher looked past 
> > Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes - and a sharp, hot 
pain shot across the scar on Harry's forehead." (PS - p.94)
> > 

AnneL:
> There's your answer right there. Snape was looking at him, but so 
was Voldemort-in-Quirrell. Harry just doesn't suspect Quirrell, because 
the man looks 'harmless' to him, while Snape is aggressive and threatening 
the next time Harry meets him (the first Potions class). >>>
 

The bit of this message below the first three lines (and so isn't 
quite as fresh as I hoped!) was originally posted a day or so ago but 
Yahoo got its knickers in a twist and did something odd to it....

 
This provokes a couple of other observations. If Snape was talking 
to Quirrell and "looked past" him, then that suggests the scenario as 
shown in the film of PS - that Quirrell was looking the other way....
 
Also, if that was the case, why didn't Harry have a repetition of 
this phenomenon every time he went to a DADA class?

"Geoff Bannister"