[HPforGrownups] In defense of the Snape apologists :0)

[Lisa Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 136133

houyhnhnm writes:
> 
> You have to assume that Snape
> really is a Death Eater telling Bellatrix the truth in order to prove
> that he really is a Death Eater.  If he's lying to her then we don't
> know whether he made the Quirrel/Voldemort connection or not.  The
> following passage from PS/SS is suggestive, though ambiguous.
> 
> "It happened very suddenly.  The hook-nosed teacher looked past
> Quirrel's turban straight into Harry's eyes--and a sharp, hot pain
> shot across shot across the scar on Harry's forehead."
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Lisa responds:

Not ambiguous at all - JKR has cleared that up.  She clarified that
Quirrell was, at the time, looking at Snape, making the back of his
turban face Harry, which in turn was what was making Harry's scar
hurt.

Lisa/SassyMomOfThree