Snape, trying very hard not to smile? Or is he just allergic to cats?

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Sue wrote:

> > I also wonder if he was wearing a mask at the QWC, and flipping 
> > Muggles as an earlier post suggested.

Carol wrote: 

> I really, really hope Snape wasn't part of that Muggle-baiting
> incident. I think he knows how it feels to be upside down with your
> underwear on display and wouldn't want to put anyone else in that
> position (literally or figuratively). Like DD, he doesn't seem to  
have been present at the QWC, but there's no canon to indicate that 
he was absent, either.

Heather Says:

Until this moment, I have always felt that Snape was likely involved 
in the Muggle-baiting and was the one who flipped Mrs Roberts upside-
down in mid-air.  But suddenly, I realized that it was more likely 
to be Wormtail under that mask.  He would have been imitating his 
well loved pranks as a teen and has shown himself to be a part of 
that kind of humiliation.  We have no canon to say that Wormtail and 
LV were actually at the campsite following the QWC, but we do have 
LV's statement that he was well aware of the QWC, and that Barty 
Crouch Jr was present.  He states in GoF (The Death Eaters) that he 
chose to wait until after the Cup was over:

'...then, of course, there was the Quidditch World Cup... I thought 
his protection might be weaker there, away from his relations and 
Dumbledore, but I was not yet strong enough to attempt kidnap in the 
midst of a horde of Ministry wizards."'  GoF  pg 570 Canadian Ed 2000

He doesn't actually say that he was present at the QWC, but then it 
implies that he was present and realized once he got there that his 
mission would be impossible to accomplish.  If LV and Wormtail were 
actually present at the campsite, it is possible that Wormtail wore 
his mask to "hide" in the crowd, and then slipped in to stir up some 
muggle-baiting at LV's command to see how many DEs would be faithful 
and jump into the game.  That would clear Snape's good name....  :)

Heather