DD trust in Snape again. WAS: Evil Hermione

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 154833

 
> > AD:
> > As I've just mentioned to Pippin, Hermione was suspected Snape 
> before
> > she spotted him with the binoculars--she shouted "I knew it!" as 
> soon
> > as she saw him.
> > 
> >

Potioncat:
This event is the day after Harry learned that Snape had been injured 
by Fluffy. Harry was convinced Snape was trying to steal the stone, 
but Hermione wasn't so sure.

Now, Harry's broom is bucking, and Hagrid says it must be Dark Magic 
and it can't be a student causing it. Hermione grabs his binoculars 
and looks "frantically at the crowd."

"I knew it. Snape---look."

So, what did she know? When she looked into the crowd was she looking 
for the signs that someone was working a hex? (as she would say after 
the game, "I know a hex when I see one.") And when she sees someone 
who appears to be hexing the broom, it happens to be Snape? Or was 
she looking for Snape to see if he was the one who was hexing the 
broom?  See the difference?

Was she thinking "I knew it was Snape."
or was she thinking, "I knew I could spot the hex."

In the discussion after the game, the narrator says, "The afternoon's 
events certainly seemed to have changed her mind about Snape."

I don't think she suspected Snape before hand.

Just think, if she had seen Quirrell first, she would have thought it 
was Quirrell hexing the broom.