Broken potionvial WAS: Re: Bad Writing? (was: JKR and the boys)

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 163212

> zanooda:

> Knowing Snape's vindictive nature, I was expecting him to do 
> something extra-mean to Harry at the first opportunity. When during 
> the first "after-Pensieve" lesson Snape chose to just ignore the boy, 
> Harry felt relieved, but I thought it was too good to be true. I was 
> waiting for Snape to make his move, and when the flask fell, I 
> assumed that was *it*, even if there was no indication in the text 
> that it was Snape who dropped the sample.

zgirnius:
It is that first, uneventful post-Pensieve-dive Potions class that 
convinced me that the bottle dropping was an accident. Why wait for the 
second class to engineer an incident, if that was Snape's wish, after 
all? But if the potion happens to fall...it's a fine opportunity for 
Snape, which he takes.