My Take on the Whole Snape/Draco/Dumbledore/Secret Keeper Thing

[Eddie]

No: HPFGUIDX 161099

> Sandra:
> I feel [Snape] had a respect for Lily even though he called
> her names in public.  Remember that the one "memory"
> we saw of James and the others taunting him, even Lily
> hated James then and wouldn't have anything to do with
> him.

Eddie:
This all ties into a long-standing question... why was THIS memory
Snapes' WORST memory.  (See
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/61591 for a
discussion from over 3 years ago).  Some theories from then, and my
personal opinion, is that this memory shows the moment when Snape
realizes Lily is prepared to torment him too, and that she is just
like all his other tormentors.

> Sandra:
> [...] in OotP when Harry's hand is hurting because of the
> spelled punishment quill.  Now, Hermione suddenly
> comes up with this great potion for him to soak his
> hand in.  Even if she came up with the potion from a
> book, she HAD to have gotten the ingredients from
> Snape's cupboard.

Eddie:
Oh, not necessarily HAD to have gotten them from Snape's cupboard.  We
don't know what the ingredients are.  (But here's partial info:
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/potions/potions-m.html#murtlap_essence
), mainly "strained and pickled Murtlap tentacles", but would Madame
Pomfrey or Professor Sprout have them?  Are they free available at the
student's supply cupboard.  THe rest of the ingredients could be, "1/2
cup of baking soda; 1/4 cup of Maalox; etc"  :-)    Also, Fred and
George say they used the same cure later on.  If we assume that
Hermione could only have got the ingredients from Snape, then we'd
have to assume that Fred and George somehow "acquired" the ingredients
from Snape too.  Not that this kind of larceny is beyond them, but now
it's a slippery slope.

> Sandra:
> [is] this is in the book
> and not just in the movie, but do you remember in the
> movie where they were at the bookstore and Draco comes
> down the stairs to taunt Harry before his Father puts
> the book in Ginny's cauldron?  Well, Draco pulled a
> piece of paper out of a book, folded it and put it in
> his pocket.

Eddie:
Movie only.  It looked to me that loose-morals-Draco wasn't beyond
defacing a bookstore book that he didn't own because, well, he wanted
it... and that's all that matters to him.

> Sandra:
> Now, I dont' believe for one second that Hermione
> would deface a book like that.  She would have
> transcribed the info on a separate piece of paper for
> herself.

Eddie:
That's bothered me too, and I believe it was in the book too, but
Hermione consistently despises Draco throughout all the books.  If he
was helping her, I'd think she'd stick up for him.

Eddie