Snape's stalling

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 116367



> Alla:
> 
> Well, yes. I don't think that Pippin thinks that Snape told Draco 
to  conjure the snake, don't you, Pippin? :)
> 
> Pippin brought up the incident as an example of Snape helping 
> Harry. :)
> 
> I was saying that Snape orchestrated it from the neginning.

Of course he did...but I thought you would say that he did it 
because he wanted Harry to be scared and was indifferent to his 
safety.  Neri's argument, IIRC, was that Snape delayed 
searching the forest for Harry because he didn't really care what 
happened to him, and I thought you were supporting it. 

I think Snape wanted to find out if Harry was a parselmouth and 
he also wanted to cause Harry some grief over throwing the 
firework into Goyle's potion and stealing the supplies (which he 
would have discovered by then.) 

It occurs to me that if  Snape has access to Dumbledore's 
pensieve, he could easily have found out quite a few things the 
trio thinks he doesn't know about...like who set him on fire and 
who raided his supply closet...oh, yes. I like it. ;-)

Pippin