[HPforGrownups] Snape fiddled while Harry burned? was Re: Spinner's End--

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 140133

Pippin:
I think Hermione would be very insulted to be told fifteen
wasn't a very rational age <g>. And she was with Harry. In
fact Snape may have seen in her mind that she felt the
whole thing was bloody unlikely. 



Sherry now:

But Hermione is a girl, and like it or not, it's a well proven fact that
teenage girls mature faster than boys.  Besides, Hermione isn't always very
rational.  She sure wasn't in HBP!  If I'd been Harry, I would have ignored
her too.  She had the sensitivity of a sledge hammer when trying to convince
Harry the vision might not be real.  As for Harry immediately informing the
order after Arthur's attack, well, he tried with Sirius, too.  He tried to
contact Sirius.  Both Dumbledore and McGonigal were gone, so he couldn't
inform them.  Even with his deep distrust of Snape, he tried to tell him.
But he had absolutely no reason, from his point of view, to have confidence
that Snape would do anything about it.  He's never totally taken
Dumbledore's word on Snape after all.  And even after all was said and done,
I think he'd have gone after Sirius, just in case.  I think most people in
the same circumstances would do exactly the same.  If they couldn't get in
touch with the police and had reason to think a loved one was in danger, I
think most anyone would rush off to try to help. 

Sherry