[HPforGrownups] Re: Acceptable Abuses?

[SiriusBlack4Eternity]

No: HPFGUIDX 96001


Potioncat:
> The scene with Trevor has always stuck in my mind.  I can't 
> shake the idea that Snape had a purpose there that we didn't 
> get to see.  Since it was never followed up with anything, I 
> just might be wrong.  I do believe that he would hae restored 
> Trevor at any rate.

Christelle: 

I think he's really fed up with Neville's mistakes (kinda like 
Hermione when the boys don't work). Since the beginning, he 
insists about the exactness, the discipline in potion making.

When someone chose the wrong ingredient, at a wrong moment, or 
only missing something, it could provoke an explosion or create 
a poison.

Maybe he thought, "What can I do to push him, to show his mistakes 
could kill someone, at worst? Hey, a toad, why is it here? It's 
Longbottom's!...héhéhé..."

He always knew when the dream team talked in class, how could he 
miss Hermione helping Neville ?

I think he knew all along that she helped him, he "only" wanted to 
frighten Neville, to show him the risks.

And while I'm here, why Trevor was there? And how Snape knew it's 
Neville's?

  



SB4E:

First off, let me say that I am sorry if this was sent the first time, but as my connection to the internet was broken at the time I tried to send, I'm not sure so I am resending it....

I think that you've hit the nail on the head.  I believe that we are seeing a frustrated Potions Master that is trying to get it through Neville's head that the class is serious and how one seemingly small mistake can cause certain diaster....think about this, potions is the equivalent to muggle chemistry, where a small mistake can lead to very disastrous consequences...so can potions. 

However, like you, I would like to know why Trevor was there.  That to me is a bigger question than how did Snape know who's toad it was, because I assumed that he had seen Trevor in Neville's bag or pocket...but why did he take the toad to class?

SiriusBlack4Eternity



		
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