L.O.O.N.'s Unite - let's play the obsessive nitpicking game!!

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 173691

colebiancardi:

It is time to start the light-hearted L.O.O.N. debates (LOON stands
for League Of Obsessive Nitpickers)  Come on in with your nitpickin'
issues and post here!!

I'll start:

>Christy wrote:
>I find it interesting that Snape apparently communicated with Black
and Lupin in
>OOTP via Patronuses using a form that represented their best friend's
wife and
>they didn't know it. Wouldn't they be curious that this dark wizard
had a doe
>-- a rather meek creature and the mate of a stag -- for a Patronus?
How many of
>us assumed his Patronus would be a bat, or vulture, or spider, or
some other
>unappealing creature?

colebiancardi:

yes, this is a bit puzzling to me as well.  Another thing that puzzles
me is the whole Half-Blood Prince story and that no one knew who he
was in HBP.

When Harry tells Lupin about the Potions book & the Half-Blood Prince,
Lupin states he has no idea who that could be.  Then Harry uses
Sectumsempra on Draco later on - McGonagall must know what had
happened in the bathroom, because "she supported wholeheartely Snape's
punishment" (HBP US hardcover, p 529)

A cutting curse, in which Snape heals and then admits Draco up to
Poppy for further treatment to prevent scarring.  Dark Magic, Snape
calls it.

Yet, in DH, Lupin states after George's ear is cut off:

"He lost an ear," said Lupin
"Lost an -- ?" repeated Hermione in a high voice.
"Snape's work," said Lupin
"Snape?" shouted Harry.  "You didn't say --"
"He lost his hood during the chase.  Sectumsempra was always a
speciality of Snape's"  DH US ed, p. 73

If McGonagall was part of the Order way back when, she would have
known that Sectumsempra was Snape's speciality as well.  And perhaps
Lupin didn't hear about Harry's mishap in the bathroom;  but I would
think, as being a member of the Order, why wouldn't he?  

I know JKR couldn't reveal all in HBP before its time, but the
Sectumsemptra scene & the doe Patronus as means of communication all
just don't add up.  You'd think that someone would have put two and
two together and gotten DDM!Snape a lot sooner.   And that the HBP's
identity would have been figured out a lot sooner as well.

 >Charlie wrote:
>When Luna, Neville and Ginny - a reflection of how interesting I find
these
>people - are caught in the headmasters office, for theft of a
valuable magical
>device, what does Snape do? He sends them as punishment to Hagrid to do
>something in the Forbidden Forest.

colebiancardi:

yes, another LOON.  Like detention with Hagrid should be a *dead
giveaway* that Snape is not evil and not the same as the Carrows.  The
students are pretty dense, as well as the faculty at this point and
the Carrows.  Really, if Snape was truly evil, he should have at least
given them to Filch.