Re-reading CoS : questions

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94848

Del wrote:
> I flipped through CoS yesterday for a bit of light reading, and I 
> have a few questions.
> (British Bloomsbury paperback First Edition if I'm not mistaken)
> 
> 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 ? Or have we ever seen one when 
> we know for sure where the other is ? Because otherwise, I have to 
> postulate that Snape and Malfoy could very well be one and the same 
> person... (Canon counter-proofs more than welcome, because I get a 
> headache just thinking of the implications of this possibility ! 
> Though it would finally explain why Snape seemed to be almost 
> smiling when Mrs Norris was found Petrified: he would be pleased 
> that his plan worked)

Carol:
One slight problem: Lucius is in Azkaban now and Snape is at Hogwarts.
They can't be the same person. Besides, that would make Snape Draco's
father and Draco clearly regards them as different people. And would
rich, snooty Lucius lower himself to teach Potions and grade homework?

Del wrote: 
> 2. What's up with Penelope Clearwater ? Why did she stay at Hogwarts 
> for Christmas if her love affair with Percy wasn't supposed to be 
> public, and why was she roaming the castle all alone? What was she 
> doing all alone around the library when everyone had gone down to 
> the Quidditch pitch ? Both occurences being especially suspicious in 
> the light of her being a Muggle-born, and thus especially at risk of 
> being attacked.
> 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...

Carol:
I don't know. I've raised several queries regarding Penny and how much
she knows about her own petrification, but I haven't received a single
response. I don't think she was a bad guy and her "excuse" for
wandering the corridors would be that she's a prefect and it was her
duty. Maybe, like Percy, she thought that Prefects would be immune
from the attacks. But I still want to know what she know (if anything)
about Diary!Tom, and how Percy could possibly think that LV isn't back
in some form when both Penny and Ginny were Tom Riddle's victims.

Maybe Tom Riddle *isn't* Voldemort, just as the shadow that comes out
of LV's wand *isn't* Cedric, and destroying Diary!Tom (in Percy's
view) has nothing to do with the return of the *real* Voldemort? In
any case, LV himself doesn't seem to know about the basilisk incident,
or at least he doesn't mention it in the graveyard scene. What's up?
any ideas?

Carol, snipping the rest of Del's post because she doesn't have any
ideas on those points yet