Chapter 29, Career Advice - Broken Potion

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 116700


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> 
> I can see Pippin's idea that Snape broke it with wandless 
magic  coming to light.In fact I may find it likely. If Pippin reads 
this  post, I just want to ask her to clarify. Do you think Snape 
performed  it wandlessly intentionally or he just did it because he 
was so angry  over Pensieve accident?<
> 

Pippin:

Oh, definitely intentional. Snape wouldn't last long as a spy if he 
could be provoked into doing wandless magic accidentally. I 
don't think he was feeling anger at the time as much as the urge 
to pounce. Harry was just too good a target, as in:
"Potter, if you think it's safe to abuse my confidence and then turn 
your back on me, you are mistaken."

If you think about it, Harry sticking his head into a pensieve while 
in Snape's office was awfully dumb, even if it had been his own 
thoughts in there. AFAWK, while his mind was lost in thought, his 
body was still in the office, totally vulnerable. *Anybody* could 
have walked in -- Filch, Umbridge,  even Lucius. In that case, 
Harry would have suffered a lot more than being thrown onto the 
floor and having a jar smash behind him. 

Pippin
who thinks most wizards must know better than to stick their 
heads in someone else's pensieve