Snape, bias, etc.

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 141043

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "krista7" <erikog at o...> wrote:
> This bit of the HBP has been driving me nuts. 
> I operate from the assumption that everything JKR does, 
> she does for a reason; none of the action in the story is
>  "just for the heck of it." Therefore, 
> I want to know why it is that Snape fetches Harry, vs. Hagrid, 
> from Tonks at the Hogwarts gate. (Chapter 8 of the 
> US standard hardback; p. 155 the chapter begins.) Yes, there's a
> simple time reason--Hagrid's running late to the Feast, as he
> confirms to Harry later--but,  come on. Why is JKR so 
> concerned with Hagrid's timeliness now, 
> that she sends Snape down to the gates and has it 
> explained several times over why Hagrid can't make 
> it and Snape had to go? 
> 
> So I'm looking at this scene to see what we find out here that's so
> essential to the book that this scene must be included. Let me toss
> them out:
> 
snip..signed krista...
Doddiemoemoe here:
If we read further into the text, we discover that Hagrid was not so 
late...

I figure that Snape went to the gates because he heard 
or "overheard" malfoy bragging...saw a flash outside the window and 
went down to investigate and ended up escorting Harry from the 
gates...

  One may guess that Malfoy may have missed the horseless carriages 
as Harry did...and arrived later than most; hence, the whispering 
was still happening even after Harry arrived in the GH...(great 
hall)...Did Snape meet a late Malfoy earlier?


on an aside...

I really loved that Harry mistook Snape for Filch.

I wonder why Harry didn't hear Tonks approach his compartment, 
(clumsy as Tonks is).

I also wonder why Tonks showed up around the ROR...in HBP..

I always thought that it was not Tonks Harry met...but rather a 
Polyjuiced Snape....(makes so much more sense than any other of the 
explanations I've heard).

Doddiemoe,

(who wouldn't bne surprised at all if in the end...polyjuiced snape 
has turned up!)