Snape saving Harry (was: An odd musing about Harry's atitude)

[theatresm2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 54196

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Clarity Sherwood 
<grover_the_weird at y...> wrote:
> Finwitch:
> Not that his counter-curses didn't do what he
> intended, just that well, why didn't Snape steal Quirrell's 
attention -

and clarity wrote:
> Well, I really think that it was purely for plot
> reasons, since is did lead Hermione to think that
> Snape was jinxing him.
> 

Ah, isn't the point to save that annoying Potter brat *without* 
blowing your own cover?  Remember, Snape is not yet certain what 
Quirrel is up to; Quirrel wasn't one of the already-established Death 
Eaters that Snape might have known from before Voldemort's first 
defeat.  

Since Snape isn't certain which side Q. is on, it would not be a good 
thing for Quirrel either to see Snape aiding Potter or for Snape to 
obviously block Quirrel's spell.  The plot contrivance is the fact 
that Hermione notices and jumps to conclusions because she, like 
everyone else, assumes that the nasty, "greasy git" can only be up to 
no good.

theatresm