Chapter 29, Career Advice - Broken Potion

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> Alla:
> 
> Oh, Susan, thank you for testing it on your daughter. :o) Believe 
it 
> or not, I think that it matters A LOT. As I said many times, I do 
> believe that books are oriented on younger audience in many ways 
(of 
> course, I want to believe that JKR also does not forget about us, 
> adults), therefore intuitive reaction of the younger generation is 
> often correct in many ways.
> 
> As I said I can see Potioncat point, but I also think that this 
> action is so very IC for Snape that for me the number one 
> possibility is what your daughter said:
> 
> "Well, duh - Snape'- I LOVE that line.
> 
> Thannks again for posting it.


Potioncat:
This conversation is running on at least 3 subject lines...so it's 
hard to decide where reply. On one, Carol has suggested we all agree 
to disagree, which at this point is the best bet.  We all seem to 
have a problem letting go, although we've all pretty much agreed it 
probably isn't important in the overall scheme of things.

But, as my fingers are being pulled away...a few points.  It's been 
said it is obvious Snape broke it.  Oddly enough, I never read it 
that way.  In fact it wasn't until it was brought up on this site a 
long time ago that I even realized that was how most readers saw 
it.  And until I re-read it for the chapter discussion, I didn't 
really dispute it.

I still wonder why JKR wrote it like this because in the past where 
it was Obviously!Snape (hexing broomstick) (refereeing to throw 
game) (poisoning Lupin) it turned out to be something else happening 
altogether. 

OK, so to the best of my ability this will be my last post on this 
topic...and I must state firmly....Mark Evans did it!
Potioncat