Two Wormtails was Re: Plot in OotP (wand confusion)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 118387


> Pippin:

snip.

Wormtail is identified  later in the book when Lupin tells about 
the Animagi. But the mystery which is not solved, and has been 
asked many times on this list, is "What did Snape know about 
the 'manufacturers' that made him question Lupin?"
 
If the names and their meanings were common knowledge, then 
there's no reason for Snape to be so oblique -- he can just say, 
"It seems Harry has come by one of your old school things. I'd 
like an explanation, Lupin, if you'd be so kind."


Alla:

Forgive me for coming back to the plot-based reasons, but NO, not 
for a second I would think that Snape could say something like that 
in the middle of the book. The fact that Snape knew Marauders was 
meant to be revealed at the end of the book and it was, IMO. If 
Snape said something like what you suggested, the answers would have 
been given too early in the book.

The reader is not supposed to know yet that Snape and Marauders are 
somehow connected, I think.