Inferi (was Re: CHAPDISC: HBP21, The Unknowable Room

[steven1965aaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 158826

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quick_silver71" 
<quick_silver71 at ...> wrote:
>
 Actually it's Harry who first brings up the fact that ghosts are 
transparent not Snape. Snape then proceeds to mention it twice in 
what, as I read it at least, reads as a mocking voice.
 
The impression I got from that scene was that it was meant to 
highlight the subtle differences between Harry and Snape on their 
understanding of Defense against the Dark Arts. Harry states the 
simplest difference between ghosts and Inferius, that ghost's are 
transparent, whereas Snape states a more "intellectual" answer that 
includes the definitions of ghost and Inferius.

Steven1965aaa:

You may be right, but its my impression that Snape would probably 
have mocked Harry's answer regardless of its contents!  If Harry had 
given the same answer Snape did, Snape would probably have mocked 
him for failing to mention immediately the most obvious way of 
telling them apart, i.e. that ghosts are transparent.

<quick_silver71 at ...> wrote:
 
It's interesting that after giving the answer that ghosts are 
transparent and 'apparently' being mocked by Snape for it Harry 
actually states the reasons why he gave that answer. 

Steven1965aaa:

Wasn't it Ron who said that, in Harry's defense?