A thought popped in my head one night... (Lily and Snape)

dumbledore11214 dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 9 17:01:58 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 112497

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "totorivers" 
<tombadgerlock at f...> wrote:
 Plus, we know from canon that Snape is unable to think, even 
> in extreme sitiuations, when harry or one of the marauders (Lupin, 
> Sirius..) are concerned, as is shown by the numerous times Snape 
> refused to heed Harry's warning (maybe they could have caught 
Crouch 
> in gof, or Quirrel in ps, or......).
> 


Alla:


OK, I grant you that Snape is emotionally challenged where Marauders 
and Harry are concerned. I had been arguing that often too.

But where, oh where did you find in canon anything about Snape 
refusing to heed Harry's warning?

Maybe my memory is poor, but I don't remember Harry EVER suspecting 
Quirrel in PS/SS and WARNING Snape about Quirrel. Could you refresh 
my recollection, maybe?

Harry wanting to get Dumbledore to talk to him about Crouch in GoF. I 
grant you that this was one of the most strong showing of Snape's 
psychological abuse of Harry (denying Harry the thing he wanted, when 
he was so panicky - I am paraphrasing the quote, so if someone 
corrects it, I 'll be grateful).
 But , if you reread this scene carefully, you will also see that it 
is quite possible that Snape knew that Dumbledore is going to show up 
ina  second from his office.Because Snape was coming from 
Dumbledore's office.
Granted, it would be much nicer of him to tell Harry something like - 
Wait , Potter, Dumbledore will be here in a second.

But, he would not have been Snape, if he did so. He never loses the 
possibility to have a go at Harry.


There is also one incident, when Snape definitely listened and 
understood Harry's warning correctly.

"They got Padfoot" - rings any bell? :o)





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