[HPforGrownups] Re: What's in it for Snape? Finding motive...

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 97457

Potioncat says:

> Harry's aware of the stir he causes, as he travels around Hogwarts,
> I'm sure Snape is. So Snape tests Harry by asking difficult questions
> from the reading material he assigned. Then makes the "fame isn't
> everything..." comment. This can either be to distance himself from
> the Dark Lord's bane,(in front of the DE children) or to deflate the
> ego he expects of Potter. It also serves to show the other students
> that they had better come to class prepared.

Whoa, there. This incident happened on the very first day of Potions class
in Harry's first year. Therefore, no reading assignments could possibly have
been given yet.

Suzanne