Why Won't Snape Eat At OotP HQ? (WAS: Snape at Grimmauld Place)

[robertpatrickallen]

No: HPFGUIDX 157030

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "h2so3f" <h2so3f at ...> wrote:
> CH3ed:
> I agree with Carole and Carol on this one. JKR is notorious for
> hiding stuff in 'simple' statements like the one Ron made there,
> IMO.
>
> I think Carol made good points about Snape not getting on with the
> remaining Marauders, and his need to remain detached. Well.... he's
> gotta eat at some point (can't really have been doing without
> dinner all that time, ay? So I'd venture a guess that he already
> had a standing dinner arrangement with somebody else? Maybe the
> Other Side where he pass selected info about the Order(he was a
> double agent, after all)?


Robert:
For the comment to have an impact on the story from here on out, you
have to consider the current situation. If anything was intended by
JKR with this comment made by Ron, it was just to call Snape's
character into question. This is something she has done throughout
the books. What result can we gather if this was a direct clue to
something? That Snape is bad. Well we're supposed to believe he is,
aren't we? So the result is one of two things. 1) He is really a DE
and that is why he didn't want to eat there or 2) He isn't a DE and
he is just a jerk and doesn't like Sirius and Lupin and a lot of the
people hanging out there so he'd rather eat somewhere else. In case
you haven't noticed, Snape isn't much for conversation and fellowship.

Robert