Chapter 29, Career Advice - Broken Potion

[justcarol67]

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Potioncat wrote:
> This conversation is running on at least 3 subject lines...so it's 
> hard to decide where reply. On one, Carol has suggested we all agree 
> to disagree, which at this point is the best bet.  We all seem to 
> have a problem letting go, although we've all pretty much agreed it 
> probably isn't important in the overall scheme of things.
> 
> But, as my fingers are being pulled away...a few points.  It's been 
> said it is obvious Snape broke it.  Oddly enough, I never read it 
> that way.  In fact it wasn't until it was brought up on this site a 
> long time ago that I even realized that was how most readers saw 
> it.  And until I re-read it for the chapter discussion, I didn't 
> really dispute it.
> 
> I still wonder why JKR wrote it like this because in the past where 
> it was Obviously!Snape (hexing broomstick) (refereeing to throw 
> game) (poisoning Lupin) it turned out to be something else happening 
> altogether. <snip>

Carol:
You're forgetting that the very first time we see Snape, there's
exactly that same set-up: Obviously!Snape causing Harry's scar to hurt.

I still say that Harry didn't see it and Hermione apparently didn't
either, so we have no evidence whatever that Snape broke it, only the
assumption that he did because it was "in character." Not even Harry
makes that assumption--maybe because he's been wrong so often before?

Yes, he gloated. Yes, he gave a zero that's essentially meaningless in
an OWL year. Yes, it was petty. But let's not *assume* what cannot be
proven one way or the other.

Oh, erm, I was the one who said we should agree to disagree, wasn't I?

Carol
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