Halloween in COS

[gingerssnap1966]

No: HPFGUIDX 53697

> greatlit2003 wrote:
> > I noticed something unusual in the scene in Lockhart's office on 
> > Halloween in COS, when Mrs. Norris was petrified. Dumbledore and 
> > McGonagall were trying to revive the cat, but 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?

Nobody's Rib replied:
 Great ideas.  Also, Snape wore a "peculiar expression" that Harry 
> interprets as it looking like Snape were trying to stifle a smile.  
> Just as the sounds of laughing and crying can be similar, I wonder 
if 
> Snape were trying to stifle his horror.  This could coincide with 
> theories that Mrs. Norris was once a person whom Snape loved, and 
> also with Double!Agent Snape, knowing that his Slytherins (or at 
> least Malfoy, who is present for this scene) would find it 
suspicious 
> for Snape to be upset.
> 
Now me:
I hate to argue, but I just did a reread of CoS.  Malfoy was in the 
hall where they found Mrs. Norris (and made a spectacle of himself) 
but the passage in question was after the Trio, Filch and the 
Professors were in Lockhart's office.

Personally, I think Snape was doing the happy dance on the inside 
because Harry was going to be expelled and he didn't have to get his 
hands dirty causing it.  I'm sure he knew better than to think Harry 
was guilty, but an expulsion is an expulsion.

Ginger, who is still laughing at the 3 ton rhino assassin