[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's plant imagery

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No: HPFGUIDX 124494

> Valky:
> I am sure the plant imagery is
> used by JKR in the same way done so many other characters throughout
> the books, to say samoething huge about it while only literally
> saying something apparently insigificant.

Sarah:
Also in OotP, Harry learns about plants for use in draughts for
causing hotheadedness and recklessness.  He himself makes the
connection that Sirius acts this way.  True or not, I think possibly
we're meant to *suspect* that Sirius is being drugged, and who better
to blame than a master at potions.

The "plant... dark" reference could be tying Snape back to this
suspicion.  Maybe Harry has at least subconsciously made this same
connection, and that's why he so readily blames Snape at the end of
the book.

Sarah