OOP: Ch 28 - What Draco saw

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 118956


> 
> Now Ignatia:
> Funny enough my first thought would be that Snape and Harry are 
> dueling. 
> If Draco also thought that, he might have considered two main 
> circunstances where this could be happening:
> 
> - Harry is having dueling classes with Snape (the professor who 
> apparently hates him)
> 
> - Harry was supposed to be having Remedial Potions, but a 
discussion 
> broke off and both teacher and pupil pulled their wands out for a 
> duel.
> 
> Draco doesn't seems to be specially bright, that is probably what 
he 
> thought. But if he suspected the first... he might have reported 
it 
> to his father, instead of spreading it around school.
> 
> As for spreading it, didn't Zacharias already know? Maybe it was 
old 
> news, except maybe for Slytherins, who don't seem to hang out with 
> the others students much...
> 


Potioncat:
I'm not sure it's true that Draco isn't bright.  And given how 
little the different houses interact, Slytherins may not have heard 
that Harry was taking remedial potions.

The first time I read the scene, I thought it was the adults who 
weren't bright.  Anyone who saw Snape and Harry would know they 
weren't doing remeidal potions.  But the point of the cover story 
was to explain why Harry was going to Snape's office.  I'm sure they 
didn't expect anyone to burst into Snape's office.  Of course he 
could have locked the door each time Harry came in, but this list 
would be on fire if he had done that!

So Draco ran in, Snape probably thought, "Oh, Heck!" (or something 
along that line.) But he remained calm and gave the cover story, 
which of course Draco was happy to swallow.  Then he directed Draco 
back to the reason for being there.  Montague's situation was bad 
enough for Draco and Snape to be distracted. And off they went.

You're right though, if later, Draco savors the thought of Harry 
Potter having to take remedial potions, you would think he would 
question the wands.  We don't know if he did, or if it had gone 
completely out of his mind with the other happenings.

On the other hand, add the wands, Snape's lack of support for 
Umbridge, the strange interaction between Snape and Harry in 
Umbridge's office and Draco might begin to wonder about his Head of 
House.