[HPforGrownups] Questions concerning Snape and Lucius

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 56885

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Rosebeth C. wrote (about Snape dueling with Lockhart):

> So why would Snape agree?  I'm not sure.  Maybe he saw it as something 
> useful for the Slytherin's to know.  Maybe DD asked him. Maybe he justed 
> like the idea of dueling Lockhart.

Personally, I think Snape relished the idea of showing up Lockhart in
front of most of the student body.  We know he loves humiliating his least
favorite students in front of others, and I suspect that attitude extends 
to anyone Snape views as a lesser wizard than him.

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"