Chamber of Secrets and Snake err.... Snape

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 148098

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Karen wrote:
> > 
> > However, Snape does whisper to Malfoy right before he casts the 
> >serpensortia curse:
> > 
> > Snape moved closer to Malfoy, bent down, and whispered something 
in 
> >his ear. Malfoy smirked, too. Harry looked up nervously at 
Lockhart 
> >and said, "Professor, could you show me that blocking thing 
again?"
> >snip<
> 
> Potioncat:
> A long time ago this group discussed the Snape-Malfoy 
relationship. 
> How did Snape know Malfoy knew the spell? Did Snape teach Malfoy? 
> Does Snape teach the Slytherins spells in general? Now I see this 
> scene with the first HBP-DADA class in mind.
> 
> Harry doesn't know how to duel and has Lockhart as a teacher. He's 
> facing a nasty oponent who has Snape for a teacher. (Had it been 
me, 
> I would have said, "Forget this club," and run away.) A snake 
appears 
> and Harry has to react. 
> 
> He reacts much the way he will need to for DADA. He is resourceful 
> and while he cannot work a counterspell, he can control the result 
of 
> Malfoy's spell. I think Snape learned two things about Harry's 
> abilities that day: his resourcefulness and his being a 
Parselmouth.

Hi,
Thanks for bringing Harry's resourcefulness up because it brings to 
mind his last encounter with Snape and how completely outgunned he 
was. No matter what he did, Snape seemed two steps ahead of him. I 
don't know what to give credit to. Was it that he was so completely 
discombobulated by DD's death. I would be too! Or was it that 
Harry's mind is an open book to Snape (If so, that doesn't bode well 
for his next encounter with LV, the world's best legilimens I think 
it is) and so Snape was literally 2 steps ahead or is Snape just 
that good at fighting? If you think it is emotion that kept Harry 
from being more successful at fighting Snape, does Harry have to 
detach himself from the world to do this monstrous task? His 
complete helplessness in the face of Snape was just such a contrast 
from his GOF encounter with LV. It doesn't bode well for another 
physical encounter with Snape. I hope we don't see one.
Jen D., wondering what Snape has that Lv doesn't...
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