Third in command, was: Mistaken identity thread - confusion

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No: HPFGUIDX 80679

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hagrid" <aussie_lol at y...> w
> Mistaken ID in a nutshell
>  
> Severus wouldn't have owned up to a love child with a Weasley.
>  f) Snape must have had some reason for not going to the sorting 
> ceremony when Ginny met the hat. 
>  
> Advantage of this theory is:
> - LOLLYPOPpers are allowed for.
> - The Sorting Hat wanted unity between the Hogwarts houses .. now
we 
> may find a strong member of DA, Ginny, is from Slytherin blood.
> 
> Problem: 
> - Snape showed no emotion when Ginny was taken by the Basalisk
> - Snape? Romantic? I'd rather get a mental picture of Hagrid and 
> Maxime ... lol
> 
> aussie

LOL! Thanks for the explanation. Well, I thought Snape was not at the 
sorting ceremony because he was waiting for Harry and Ron to turn up, 
which also supports a theory I have that Snape is third in command at 
Hogwarts. DD had to make the speech (he IS the headmaster) and 
McGonagall had to organise the first-years and the ceremony, which
she 
does every year. But who always seems to be around, along with DD and 
McGonagall in important scenes? Even if all he does is sneer
something 
about how typical Potter it is to break rules? Snape! So I can
imagine 
Minerva saying, "Look, Harry and Ron haven't turned up and I'm a bit 
worried, could you just keep an eye out for them and I'll be around 
after the ceremony?" Whatever the Gryffindors think of Snape, there's 
no evidence the staff have any problems with him (except maybe when 
he's too partial to his House Quidditch team!). As for Hagrid and 
Olympe, I was a bit disappointed that led nowhere, but she IS a 
Headmistress and lives in France, what's she going to do, move to 
Hagrid's cabin? Or make him Beauxbatons Gamekeeper. Sue B