Why leave the book?

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 136960

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kristen" <jkscherme at a...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jmoses22002" 
<jmoses22002 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > Why would Snape leave the HBP book in his old potions class?  If I
> > were to have made a bunch of helpfull notes in my book I would 
have 
> it
> > in my private library.  The only thing I can think of is that he 
left
> > it there knowing that Harry wanted to take the class, but 
wouldn't be
> > prepared for it.  I'm not saying that Snape was trying to help 
Harry.
> >  Maybe he was trying to get him expelled.  Snape knew that the 
book
> > had dark spells in it that weren't explained.  I'm betting that 
Snape
> > also knew that Harry's curriosity would get the best of him.
> > 
> > 
> > jmoses
> 
> Madeyesgal
> 
> I doubt that Snape had any ulterior motive for leaving the book in 
the 
> classroom. If it indeed belongs to him, he may have placed it in 
his 
> classroom as a reference and forgot to remove it when he became 
DADA 
> professor. 

does Snape ever give you the impression that he forgets ANYTHING?  Or 
that he would need a reference guide from oh 20 years ago?  Nope.  I 
think it was a plant.  


>It was purely chance that Harry received that particular 
> book. It could have just as easily gone to Ron.

true.  Or it could have been bewitched to go to Harry - after all, 
this is a wizarding world.

 
> 
> IMO, Snape was genuinely shocked to learn that Harry knew the spell 
he 
> used to attack Draco and realized that Harry had found the old 
book. 

I think Snape was shocked that Harry USED the spell, IMHO.  

> Harry went to great lengths to disguise/hide his book and yet Snape 
> didn't buy it. He knew differently. If Snape had actually 
engineered 
> the circumstances for the book to go to Harry, I don't believe that 
he 
> would made any reference to it, nor, punished Harry for lying about 
it.

but Harry's punishment was for using that spell and it was a weak 
punishment - he didn't get expelled.  For harming a student in that 
manner, he should have been kicked out.  Yet Snape didn't yank 
Harry's sorry butt into DD's office, did he?  He was very calm about 
it(for Snape)

colebiancardi

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