Bode and Devil's Snare

[catimini15]

No: HPFGUIDX 89835

Diana wrote:
> Did we ever find out who sent Devil's Snare to Bode? I 
> searched the archives but I could not find any info.
(snip)
> I do have a theory that it was MacNair just because he 
> also sent a Hippogriff calendar, but I am wondering if 
> it was ever clarified?

Now me (Nadine):

I just read OotP again and I paid more attention to the chronological order of
events. Bode got his Devil's Snare as a Christmas gift. Who sent it ? 
Logically, it cannot be any of the 10 imprisoned Death Eaters because Bode was 
strangled by the Devil's Snare the same night the ten Death Eaters escaped from 
Azkaban. So the plant was brought to St. Mungo's by a free Death Eater.

Someone on this list (I could not find who in the archives, I apologize) once 
suspected Peter. Yes. On his first visit to St. Mungo's with the Weasleys, 
Harry notices a «very old, stooped wizard with a hearing trumpet» at the front 
desk. Could this be a disguised Peter onto a reconnaissance mission ? He could 
have charmed his silver hand into a hearing device non ?

And then, two days after the end of the xmas holidays, the trio finds out in 
the Daily Prophet that Bode has died. That morning, Ron says : «Who expects 
Devil's Snare to turn up in a hospital disguised as a pot plant ? (...) They 
must be a real prat, why didn't they check what they were buying ?» OotP, 
p.483, Canadian Edition. Please notice the words «disguised» and «prat», used 
by JKR. Is prat a hint for rat ?

As for the Hippogriff calendar, I am wondering if it isn't a very bas taste 
hint from Peter, that Sirius is going to be the next one to die. After all, 
Peter must be aware, by now, of Sirius and Buckbeak's tale.

I apologize for my awkward written English. It is not my mother tongue.

Like Iris always says on this list :

Amicalement,

Nadine ;-)