Snape in the Shrieking Shack (Was: Are appearances important to Snape?)

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 142345


> a_svirn:
> Well, it is pretty clear from the quote you provided (thanks!)that 
> she didn't only want to silence Harry, but also to *discredit* him. 
> Hence the attack on Dudley. I'd say it rather probable that she 
> would accuse Harry in attacking Dudley, and ascribe his own demise 
> to his resisting the arrest.
>
zgirnius:
I think it is pretty clear that Dolores Dearest did not plan for the 
Dementors to kill Harry. The resisting arrest story would not fly-he 
was not being arrested! The presence of Dementors, as pointed out at 
Harry's hearing, was not authorized. So Harry was not being arrested. 

It seems to me her plan was to have the Dementors show up and provoke 
Harry into some spectacular display of magic. This would be his 
second breach of the Underage Magic rules (and probably also a breach 
of wizarding secrecy). And Harry's use of the dementor defense, when 
there *clearly* could not be dementors there, would confirm the 
stories that he's an attention-seeking show-off with a bee in his 
bonnet about Dark Creatures and Dark Lords.