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

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 163213

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zgirnius" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:

> > 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.


zanooda again:

Sorry if I didn' express myself clearly enough, but I was writing 
about the first after-Pensieve lesson, not the second. If the sample-
dropping incident happened during the second (third, fourth...)
lesson, I would sure agree with you, but it happened at the end of 
the very first post-Pensieve Potions class("Career advice"), when 
kids were turning in their potion samples. Sorry again if I didn't 
make clear what I was writing about :-).