CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 28, Snape's worst memory

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> >Carol notes:
> Except, of course, for the possibility that Snape throwing the jar 
is Harry's perception rather than what actually happened. Harry has 
no experience of anyone other than himself performing accidental 
magic  as the result of inadequately suppressed fury. 


Potioncat:
Good point.  I wonder if this will come up again. I would also think 
that accidental magic would be an embarrassing thing for an adult 
wizard. And if that's the case, Snape is in a fix!

>>>Carol:
 I can, however, visualize him being so angry that he *wants* to 
throw something and the force of his anger exploding some object 
that he'd really rather had stayed intact.

Potioncat:
I love that wording!  Could not snip it! 
Not to beat a dead cockroach, myself...I still see a connection 
between this exploding jar of cockroaches and Lupin's boggart orb 
disolving into a cockroach.  I just don't know what it is.
 
>>> Now Dungrollin:
> No, I'd always imagined them in alcohol or formaldehyde, or
> steeped in oil, or vinegar, or something else rather more exotic.  
> Or simply dried au naturel...

Potioncat:
Cockroach infused olive oil...you'll find it on the shelf next to 
the cockroach clusters. And my kids complain about the meals I serve!