Who is Spying on Who? (Was: Snape in the Shrieking Shack)

[M. Thitathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 142350

zgirnius  wrote: 
   "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."



 

CH3ed: I agree with Zgirnius's take on the matter. Something nags me about the dementors attack occurring at the right time on the one night Mundungus abandoned his watch, though. I'd love to know what Umbridge's order to the dementors was in exact words. Did she specifically send 2 dementors to 'deal with' an underage wizard she didn't know could perform the patronus charm? Did she specify when they should do the deed? What I'm wondering is if she had info on how Harry was being guarded and that the guard would be off for an hour or so that evening (I don't think she knows about the charm that protects Harry in the Dursley House)? Not that I think she knew exactly who the guard would be (I don't think Dung would have been a lot of help against the dementors), but it seems such a convenient coincident. 

 

CH3ed