Snape and the Kappa: a Flint? (Was: Snape and Lupin's Character Arcs)

[cunning_spirit]

No: HPFGUIDX 119406


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> > Carol:
> > So, I'm suggesting, when she discovers that she was wrong about 
> > Kappas being found in Mongolia, she covers her own error by 
> > attributing it to Snape.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> I think it's more likely that Snape - with his, shall we say, unique
> - personal experience of the Dark Arts would say that knowing the
> habitat of an obscure Asian water sprite (or whatever it was) that
> the average student might only run across on an extended foreign trip
> is by no means the only standard of a teacher's competence in DADA
> and that he is qualified to talk about the kind of Dark Arts that
> students and their families are unfortunately more likely to
> encounter in the current WW situation.
> 
> Magda
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> 		


Cunning Spirit:

The thought occurred to me, and grant you, I'm probably just grasping at straws, but 
could it be possible that the error is not Snape's but Scamanders? What if Severus Snape's 
earlier edition of FBAWTFT from his own school days actually contained the errant 
information on Kappas. Then in the later editions Scamander finally caught and corrected 
this faux pas. Unless Snape eventually shelled out for and read the current edition, he may 
still be capable of mouthing incorrect lore about any number of magical monsters.