If DD knows, then why...? [was: Snape, trying very hard not to smile?]

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 93968

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> Sue wrote: 
> > > ...DD knows what is in the Chamber.  He was there before, he 
knew 
> > > Hagrid didn't open the Chamber and it doesn't take a genius 
> > > (okay, maybe Hermione is a genius, but so is DD) to figure it 
> > > out.  Especially after living through seeing TM become 
Voldie.  
> > > He certainly wasn't keeping his talent for conversing with 
snakes 
> > > a secret later in his life.  ...a little chat with a certain 
> > > teenaged ghost in the girls' bathroom and voila! Mystery 
solved.
>  
> Eloise replied:
> > Yeess.....
> > This *is* puzzling. Why the heck didn't Dumbledore do something 
> > about it if he had all the clues there? He knew Tom Riddle 
opened 
> > the Chamber the first time. He knew where Myrtle died and that 
he 
> > could interview her. x
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Potioncat:

Why do you think DD knew Tom Riddle opened the Chamber?  I'm sure he 
knew Hagrid didn't but what did he know for certain? How would he 
know it was a basilisk? 
Perhaps he tried to talk to Myrtle, but didn't learn anything. Harry 
had a difficult enough 
time getting her to talk and she may not have talked to a 
professor.  For that matter, DD may have been hampered in his 
investigation in the early days by Headmaster Dippit 

snipping a post or two> 
 Susan:
> I think as a group we spend 
> **so** much time thinking, analyzing, wondering, permutating 
[verb?], 
> a-ha'ing, theorizing, and looking for flints [what *is* the origin 
of 
> that word, btw?], that it's no WONDER we find gaps in logic or 
things 
> which don't seem to add up.  In my book, given the sheer size of 
> canon, it's a wonder we don't find more!

Potioncat:
Flint is named after Marcus Flint who spent too many years at 
Hogwarts.
> 
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> 
> Susan:
> Can I show that I've likely got a bad case of movie contamination 
> here?  [Eeeek!!]  *Do* we know that Snape told Draco to use the 
> serpentsorcia spell [I've butchered that spelling]??  It's 
certainly 
> not clear in the movie and I don't have my book here to check.
> 
Potioncat:
Yes, I believe the book has Snape whispering to Draco then Draco 
does the serpensortia spell.  But Snape doesn't seem to expect Harry 
to be able to deal with it.  I think he is testing Harry in some 
way, but I'm not sure he's looking for parselmouth.

Potioncat