[HPforGrownups] Snape smiling, half in shadow (was Halloween in CoS)

[SeventhSqueal]

No: HPFGUIDX 53694


 
 greatlit2003 <hieya at hotmail.com> wrote:

Snape just stood there, not saying a word, and trying not to smile. This is not at all consistent with his behavior in other books, because we know that he is a take-charge type of person. He is never so passive. Why was he smiling?

7thSqueal reponds:

IMO Snape knows that the diary was loosed upon someone in the school. He's not taking charge because he's a little stunned and having an emotional moment that would be indiscreet if noticed. He's trying not to smile because he's thinking, "Oh, my god! It worked! Someone used Dad's diary to open the Chamber of Secrets". 

That chamber and the basilisk within are relics of Slytherin House. If he wasn't sure that the Chamber existed, he's probably pretty happy to get confirmation that the legendary hidey-hole is fact. He's kind of proud.

I think the weird sisters look like a cross between the B-52's and the characters in Limbo's waiting room in the old movie Beetlejuice.





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