CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 29, Career Advice

[potioncat]

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> Carol:
> > 
> > Most people posting to this thread are assuming that because, in 
> their
> > view, Snape is an "unprofessional git," he must have broken the 
> vial
> > on purpose. I think that Snape would be risking his job if he 
were 
> to
> > break a vial in front of his students.
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> 
> Yes, because it would be very IC action for him, IMO. Also, he 
> already committed even more serious wrongdoings as to Harry for 
> which he did not lose his job, I don't see why he would over this.
> 
>  
> Regardless, as I told Potioncat - it is apossibility that someone 
> else did it, I just think that it is a tiny one.

Potioncat:
Did I hear my name?  ;-)
I'm still curious as to why JKR wrote it this way.  Did she expect 
everyone to think Snape broke it?  Did she expect anyone to question 
it? Did he break it? (My earlier statement was that if Snape wanted 
to get at Harry, he would break the flask in front of him, not 
behind his back. And therefore, I don't think he did.)

It's a little mystery, but it doesn't seem important enough to re-
visit in a later book.

If nothing else, it further divides Harry and Snape.  And when Harry 
needs someone to rely on, he never even thinks of Snape.