More PS/SS quotes and musings./Hermione, Snape and others

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 154112

Alla:
> > >
> > Please point me where in canon it says that the books NOT from
restricted section are not allowed to be taken outside.
> >
> > a_svirn:
> > Well, it *is* stated in canon. It's just that you don't want to
believe it because it was stated by Snape.
> >
> 
> Alla:
<snip> 
> We have two statements that contradict each other here, no? I was
> asking for back up of one of them.
> 
> I also just realised something else - isn't Remus reading the book
> in the Pensieve scene, outside? <snip>>
> 
> But how many times she corrects Harry and Ron,when they get the 
> various rules wrong ( you cannot apparate in Hogwarts, etc,etc).
> 
> She does not correct Harry here. Very nice. :)


Carol responds:

Two small points, neither of which disproves your view--as you say,
it's Snape's word (as teacher) against Harry's (as first-year): Remus
is reading his own Transfiguration book, not a library book, and "You
can't Apparate on Hogwarts grounds" is a fact, not a rule. (Snape says
the same thing in GoF to Fudge, IIRC.)

And maybe Hermione doesn't correct Harry (*or* Snape, outside his
hearing) because she doesn't know who's right.

Carol, who thinks that Snape, as a teacher with ten years' experience
at that point (and an exceedingly good memory rather like Hermione's),
is more likely to have a through knowledge of the rules than any
first-year, even Hermione