Wormtail

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No: HPFGUIDX 150501

 > Sherrie here:
>  
> I always had the feeling that he DID recognize at least one of the 
names -  
> that was why he summoned Lupin, and made those pointed remarks 
about "directly  
> from the manufacturers": he knew that "Moony" referred to Lupin, & 
could  
> therefore infer, if he didn't already know, that the other names 
referred to  
> Lupin's friends.


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Me too!
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(just before she hits the send button, a small elf in a teatowel, 
decorated in Cubs logos, whispers in her ear.)

Oh, Yeah, perhaps I should expand on that:

I think this is one of those great scenes that we read for the first 
half dozen or times as innocently as Harry experiences it. He 
doesn't know anything about those 4 gentlemen, nor do we. Read that 
scene with the idea that Snape knows who they are and knows what 
they are like, and has his own strong biases toward them and the 
scene becomes very different!

Of course, you'll read it with your own bias about Snape, but that's 
ok. To me, he knows one of the 4 is a dangerous convict who is out 
to kill Harry and one of the others is in the castle. I don't think 
Snape knew it was a map, though.


Another scene like this is in GoF when Snape sets Harry in a desk 
near his, then hisses insults at him and refers to things being 
stolen. Harry (and us most likely) think he's harping back to CoS, 
but he's really trying to determine if Harry is making Polyjuice 
Potion now.

Oh, and btw, I think the nicknames may have been fairly common 
knowledge, or at least not well protected. Who would suspect, based 
only on the nicknames, that the 4 transformed into animals?