[HPforGrownups] Snape: Potions Master for 14 years

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 83195


> Jana:
> While rereading Oop last night, I came across the passage where
> Umbridge is inspecting Snape.  She asks how long he has been
> teaching, and he replies almost 14 years (don't have the books at
> work, of course :(.  Something clicked, and I remembered Dumbledore
> hired Trelawny after she made the prediction, 16 years ago, for
> protection.  Could the same be said for Snape?  If Harry is 15 and
> change in the book, and the attack took place when he was 18 mos old,
> does the time line fit?  Snape saves Harry, then works at Hogwarts
> for protection from Lord Thingy?
>
> Just a thought

Iggy:

And a very good thought there...  I think you may have hit on something
there.  (Especially since they spent some time evaluating the flashback
scene in the first movie over on the movie list, and it was noted that an
arm was in the scene that was wearing sleeves and such that mach Snape's
clothing exactly.  It was also cited that JKR had personally overseen the
setup of that scene, so she MUST have had that in there for a reason...)

Iggy McSnurd