Sneakoscope question

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 96017

Carol wrote:
*Had* Scabbers been there all along? I thought the sneakoscope was
with Ron in Egypt, then with Harry at the Dursleys. IIRC, it went off
in Egypt (again because of Scabbers) and Bill thought it was defective
but Ron "explained" it as reacting the twins putting beetles in Bill's
soup.

I always thought that both Lupin and Crookshanks in the train scene
and the twins in Egypt were red herrings, and the real cause in both
cases was Scabbers.

Berit replies:

I agree with Carol. The reason it took a little time before the 
children became aware of the Sneacoscope spinning in the train 
compartment was because it was buried in Harry's trunk; it had been 
spinning all the time. To me it is a logical deduction, after having 
read the whole book, that the Sneakoscope reacted to Scabbers' 
presence. -Logical, because the big revelation in PoA was Scabbers' 
real, evil identity, not Lupin's werewolfishness.

Berit
http://home.no.net/berjakob/snape.html