CoS. Question regarding Snape mentioning polyjuice and book name with formula.

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 125573


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> 
> vmonte:
> 
> I was looking for a reference in CoS when I came across something 
> that I think is odd.
> 
> vmonte: 
> Snape doesn't show the students how to make the potion, but he does 
> tell them where they can find the potion, interesting.

Hmm-mm.. Polyjuice Potion WAS a question in OWL - theory. Apparently 
he mentions the effects and a reference book once and expects the 
students to get it (if he does this with other OWL-required 
matters... well, I don't know).

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> vmonte:
> Damp-spotted? Am I reading this wrong? Shouldn't it read dry-
spotted? 
> Did someone else recently use this book, getting some of the pages 
> wet? If so, who? 


Finwitch:

Now THAT is interesting question. We DO know that Ginny was possessed 
and going in and out the Chamber...

Hmm--mm. it could have been an older student who needed the book for 
NEWT-potion-project? someone like Percy? (Molly letting a book from 
restricted section in the house, not to mention the cost..?) Or was 
it the Weasley twins who used Lockhart to sign the slip -- you know, 
Lockhart WOULD sign anything...?

Or maybe the spots were there to show what well-made potion is 
supposed to look like and therefore magically kept liquid (well, they 
DO have invisible books about invisibility that no one can find and 
biting monster books about monsters... )
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> 
> "He knew it was me," Harry told Ron and Hermione as they hurried 
back 
> to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. "I could tell."
> 
> vmonte:
> So, if Snape knew, why didn't Harry get in trouble?

Finwitch:

Well, 1) Snape doesn't have the authority to expel Harry. Only 
McGonagall and Dumbledore do.(We were told this when Harry arrived by 
Snape himself)
2) Although Snape knew - by means of Legilimency - he doesn't have 
*proof*. AND Snape's always accusing Harry about this and that, so 
even if he tried - well, he wouldn't be believed. McGonagall would 
tell him to quit blaming Harry about everything I suppose - and 
Dumbledore would just say: 'Innocent until proven guilty, Severus'.

Finwitch