OOP: Regarding Intriguing creature/lie question/Percy/Snape

[Elizabeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 62156

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Mindy CL <MindyCL at j...> wrote:
> It might be out of line and presumptuous for me to write twice in 
one
> day, but I have an additional puzzle:
> 
> what lie did the fountain tell? Am I missing something?

me:
I think the fountain showed a witch and a wizard being adored by a 
bevy of "lesser" magical creatures, right?  The lie is that these 
creatures are all happy and adore wizardkind, IMHO.
 

> one more question, if Fred and George got their brooms so easily, 
why
> didnt they access them weeks earlier? could it be because they 
didnt want
> to get in trouble then, but they used it to escape now?

me:
If they had retrieved their broomsticks earlier, Umbridge would 
definitely have punished them, most likely severely, possibly with 
suspension or expulsion.  They only took the broomsticks back when 
they were using them to drop out of school, and thus no longer under 
Umbridge's jurisdiction.