Whoops! Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 29, Career Advice

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> Potioncat:
> Well, as much wicked pleasure as readers have gotten 
from "Whoops!", 
> something doesn't fit here.  It doesn't seem in character for 
Snape 
> to break a vial in front of the entire class unless he was making 
a 
> point. He might snarl about the potion and tell Potter not to 
> bother, but purposely breaking it seems odd. Draco might have, and 
> Snape wouldn't punish him.  Or it might have fallen.  



Alla:

Hmmm, wicked pleasure. I don't know. I think Snape certainly got a 
lot of wicked pleasure out of it, as for me, I am not so sure. :)

I am curious, why do you think it was out of character for Snape to 
break a vial in front of entire class? The purpose is humiliation 
and Snape certainly had no problme huimiliating Harry in front of 
entire class over and over again. Why breaking his vial was so 
different?




Potioncat:
 
> But you've given me a whole new idea!!!!!! Someone (sorry, I don't 
> recall who. Was it you, Alla?) suggested that the jar of 
cockroaches 
> wasn't thrown, but exploded much like Aunt Marge's glass.  What if 
> the same thing happened to the vial?  


Alla:


I think Carol suggested it. It is a strong possibility.


Potioncat.
> It just seems that JKR had a reason for us to not know what 
happened.


Alla:

But we do know what happened. The vial is on Snape's desk, so how 
Draco could smash it?

I guess falling by itself is a possibility too, but Draco's 
involvement... I doubt it.