Spinner's End and Hogwart's protection

[laurawkids]

No: HPFGUIDX 156800

> Carol responds:
> I don't think the Advance Guard would need to fly over Spinner's
End,
> anyway. Snape was on his way to 12 GP to give his report. He
arrives
> just minutes before Harry ("He's just arrived, the meeting's
started,"
> Mrs. Weasley tells the Order members right after she greets Harry,
OoP
> am. ed. 61). Possibly his arrival is the reason for the signals
(red
> and green wand sparks), which tell the Order members that it's
time to
> leave, or more likely he informs them that he's on his way since
the
> flight takes more than a few minutes. In any case, he wouldn't have
> been at Spinner's End, so there's no reason to fly over it. Quite
> possibly, Snape also saw the wand sparks and knew what they were
about.
>
> Carol, just putting two and two together in terms of timing

Laurawkids:
HMMMMM.  Could you be saying that it is Snape who is up there
shooting the sparks?  Somehow that feels like a Snape thing to do:
be helping, yet not want to have any contact whatsoever with Harry
in his house.  He would see them take off and then he would wing it
to 12 GP and get there just a bit ahead.

It really would not be a big deal if he were up there, since he is
in the Order, and expected to help out.


Laurawkids, who still wants someone's feedback on the Hogwarts
protection issue, or relevant previous threads which may have
discussed it.