How HBP could have interwoven into CoS (Was: Re: Eileen Prince)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 156394

Dungrollin wrote:
> Actually, it's Flitwick we find out was the ex-duelling champion, 
> Snape just managed to knock Lockhart off his feet at the one and 
> only meeting of the duelling club, which is hardly cause for 
> crowning him champion. 
<snip>

Carol responds:
We don't find out that flitwick was really a duelling champion, only
that Hermione has heard that he was. It may be just a silly rumor to
misdirect us. Flitwick's specialty is Charms, not DADA, and he's so
small that he goes zooming around the classroom as the result of a
misdirected Banishing Charm. (If Flitwick really had been a duelling
champion, wouldn't JKR have used him rather than Snape in this scene?)

Snape, OTOH, not only demonstrates Expelliarmus (his spell is so
strong that it sends Lockhart flying into a wall, similar to the
combined effect of three Expelliarmus spells in PoA), he also uses
Finite Incantatem to undo all the spells of the duelling students at
once and vanishes the conjured snake with a silent vanishing spell.
IMO, he not only shows up Lockhart as an inept fraud, he establishes
himself as knowing quite a bit more about duelling (and therefore
DADA) than the "teeny little bit" that Lockhart attributes to him
(note Snape's expression at this point). And of course, there's
Serpensortia, which may be one of Snape's own spells, or one familiar
to Slytherins since Draco seems to know it already. Harry doesn't put
two and two together to realize that Snape is an expert duellist, but
I did, and I suspect other readers did as well. IMO, this scene
prepares us for Snape's expertise at the end of HBP, which would have
seemed to come out of nowhere otherwise.

> DA Jones wrote:
> The answer to that is easy enough. The silver and opal necklace 
> that Katie is cursed with in the chapter Silver and Opals in HBP 
> chapter 12 (pg. 248-252 HBP, scholastic) is the same necklace 
> mentioned on page 52 of chapter 4 Flourish and Blotts from COS 
> (Scholastic).
> 
> Dung:
> ::Slaps forehead:: Ah, yes! Bravo! Though actually, I'll have to 
> sheepishly admit to not remembering at all whether we saw the 
> necklace in the film. 

Carol notes:
We don't see the necklace in the film. In fact, we don't even see
Draco and Lucius in Borgin and Burke's. All we see is the shop itself
and a hand (the Hand of Glory?) that grabs Harry's hand when he's
foolish enough to touch it. Maybe JKR wanted the shop itself to be
retained in the film because it's certainly important in HBP.

Carol