Re-reading CoS : questions

[JoAnna]

No: HPFGUIDX 94813


> Del:
> 1. Okay, what's up with Snape and Malfoy !? Different looks, but 
> same behaviour : same speech pattern as far as I can see, same 
> coldness, same restraint, same cruel humour, same cold rage when 
> angered. I won't give any examples, but just read the descriptions 
> of Malfoy and then Snape, it's eerie and scary ! Add to that their 
> obvious complicity against all odds, and I have to ask : what's 
> going on ?
> And in a world where Metamorphagi (?) exist, I have to ask : have 
we 
> ever seen Malfoy and Snape together ? 

JoAnna:
Problem being that we see Snape at Hogwarts in OotP after Lucius has 
been sent to Azkaban.  I'm sure the guards at Azkaban would notice 
if Lucius was gone.

> Del:
> I can't find my PoA book, so I can't check up on her next year. I 
> can't remember her doing anything suspicious, but still I'm 
> wondering if Miss Clearwater is as clear as spring water...


JoAnna:
Perhaps she and Percy were having a quick tryst, taking advantage of 
the fact that most of the school was at the Quidditch pitch and they 
wouldn't be interrupted?  After all, we don't know where Percy 
was... perhaps he left after Penelope and was the one who alerted 
the teachers to the fact that she & HG had been Petrified.  I see a 
scenario like this one:

Percy and Penelope agree to meet in a dark corner of the library for 
a quick tryst while everyone else is at the Quidditch match.  
They're interrupted by Hermione, who's so intent on looking up facts 
about the Basilisk that she doesn't notice them.  Percy tells 
Penelope to leave, and he'll follow her in five minutes (so it 
doesn't look like they're leaving together).  Penelope leaves, 
Hermione runs after her and tells her to look around corners with 
the mirror, 'cause the monster of Slytherin is a basilisk.  Penelope 
and Hermione look past a corner with the mirror, and BAM!  
Petrification.  Five minutes later, Percy leaves the library and 
stumbles upon their Petrified bodies.  He raises the alarm, and 
McGonagall goes out to the Quidditch pitch to cancel the match.

I hope we can learn more about Penelope in future books, or at least 
more about Percy's relationship (former, I'm guessing) with her.  
I'm sure Minister Fudge wouldn't be happy if his Jr. Assistant was 
in love with a Mudblood!


> Del:
> 5. What happened to the basilisk fang Harry used to destroy the 
> Diary ? I couldn't find any mention of it.


JoAnna:
I don't have my book handy, but I think Harry threw it aside after 
the diary was destroyed.  It's probably still sitting in the CoS.

> Del:
> 6. Myrtle's death : she describes it as follows.
><snip>


JoAnna:
I'm guessing that Tom Riddle brought a broomstick or another means 
of magical transporation with him after the first time he entered 
the CoS, and that's how he got back up - or perhaps he rode the 
Basilisk!  Either that or there's another exit somewhere in the 
chamber that Harry didn't find (i.e. an exit, but not an entrance).

I don't find it odd that the Basilisk was right there in the pipe - 
likely Tom opened the pipe and called to the Basilisk, and it was 
just emerging from the pipe (to go out and kill more Mudbloods) when 
Myrtle came out of the stall.  Likely she didn't notice the sink or 
TMR because the snake was so huge.  

- JoAnna