[HPforGrownups] Re: On the trivial and the profound

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 165456

From: eggplant107 <eggplant107 at hotmail.com>
>It's only a mystery if you insist on making it mysterious; the events
>on that tower were pretty straightforward. It's as if I were to say
>Harry had a wonderful reason for not telling the authorities about the
>potions book, but we readers just haven't been informed of it yet.
>Snape always gets a free pass, Harry and Hermione never do.

When Dumbledore say, "Severus, please...", what is the rest of the sentence? Is it really that straightforward? Why, when the normally self-controlled Snape is running away, is he yelling instructions to Harry on what he needs to do to defeat Voldemort?

Bart