Random DH questions from a lowly Muggle

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 172862

Mindy asked:
> > 4) Was the rest of Mad Eye's body actually ever recovered?
> 
Donna responded:
> Geez good question, I wondered the same thing myself, while I was 
wondering how the hell and WHY did Umbridge get it? For me, 
discovering Alastor's eye in Umbridge's office door was like finding 
out that Voldemort was using Lily's wedding dress as toilet paper.
<snip>

Carol responds:

I'm guessing, but Umbridge said that the "S" on the Slytherin locket
stood for Selwyn, and Voldemort talks to a Death Eater named Selwyn
when he's attacking Harry, so maybe DE!Selwyn gave it to dear cousin
Delores as a present. Maybe, evil as she is, she even requested it
when she found out they'd killed Mad Eye. As for what happened to his
body, that should have been answered by the fate of poor Charity
Burbage ("Dinner, Nagini!"). We had hints as early as GoF that Voldie
fed his murder victims to Nagini. He threatened to feed both Wormtail
and Harry to her, and since neither Bertha Jorkins's nor Frank Bryce's
bodies were ever found, I suspect they met the same fate. As for
Mad-Eye, Nagini probably couldn't digest the eyeball or the wooden
leg. (I'm just happy that Snape, though he was killed by Nagini,
wasn't eaten by her, and that Neville killed her with one deadly
stroke soon afterwards. BTW, the Bathilda scene was gruesome, as
horrific as anything in the book. Brrr!) 

Mindy:
> > 7) The most infuriating plot development for me personally was
Snape jumping out the window, instead of sticking around and giving
over Harry his memories BEFORE the Great Battle of Hogwarts. Can you
imagine, had Harry NOT been in the Shrieking Shack at just the right
moment, he never would have gotten access ot those memories and never
would have known he was  Horcrux and had to die so that LV could die>
too. Where was Snape's sense of responsibility/loyalty to Dumbledore -
> >  why didn the give over the memories BEFORE he jumped out the window?
> > Perhaps he didnt know yet that LV had reached the stage where he
wasnt letting go of Nagini?

Carol:
Considering that McGonagall was literally throwing daggers at him and
Flitwick was calling him a murderer, I don't think it was the
opportune moment to say, but, wait, guys. I'm on your side. Just let
me show Harry some memories. He probably didn't even think of the
memories util he was dying. Just before Nagini bites him, we see him
white with fear that he's going to fail in his mission. He has to tell
Harry about the soul bit (the other memories are his own contribution,
not part of the plan. He wants Harry to understand and believe him). 

He's been inside Hogwarts. He doesn't know until Voldemort sends
Lucius to summon him and he sees Nagini floating in her bubble that
the time has come to tell Harry about the soul bit. But he can't get
away, and even if he had, he wouldn't have found Harry (who in any
case would not have listened to him).

He had to do what he could to protect Hogwarts, including keeping on
staff members who hated him and thought he was a murderer, until he
was forced out, and from there he had to stay with Voldemort and wait
until he finds out about Nagini before informing Harry. And he can't
do that until the battle starts and he can somehow get away from
Voldemort and find Harry. Altogether, a mission impossible for
Severus, but he completed it in a last brilliant act. Who'd have
thought that a wizard could deliberately send out memories to be
caught. He must have been very relieved that Harry was there and
Hermione could conjure a vial.

I don't think his last look into Harry's eyes was only his wanting to
see Lily's eyes one last time. I think he wanted Harry finally, all to
briefly, to see him--the best part of him that he'd been hiding all
those year.

Carol, who thinks that Snape must have Transfigured himself into a
giant bat but doesn't think that he's an Animagus because the bat
would not be human-sized (imagine a human-sized Scabbers!)