LV's reasons for showing at the DoM (was: Snape as Neville's teacher)

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 168614

Dana:

> > Could you point out where Harry has the urge to bite 
> > Dumbledore more then once?

Dana again:

> Could you point out the first? Because the incident 
> you are referring to is the first.

houyhnhnm:

Page 474-475, Am. Ed.
" . . . there arose within Harry a hatred so powerful 
he felt, for that instant, that he would like nothing 
better than to strike--to *bite*-- . . ." 

p. 622
". . . he felt again that terrible snake-like longing 
to strike Dumbledore, to *bite* him . . ."

[emphasis added]

Dana:

> If Snape knew what DD was up to and where he was and could 
> communicate with DD directly, then why did he need Sirius 
> to stay behind to wait for DD to fill him in? He could have 
> done that himself.

houyhnhnm:

Snape may not have been in contact with Dumbledore after 
his supsicions were aroused by the kids' failure to return 
from the forest, but he had to have had more recent 
communication with DD than the other members of the 
Order or it would have been neither necessary nor possible
for him to tell them DD was on his way.

Dumbledore says, "Professor Snape requested Sirius remain 
behind, as he needed somebody to remain at headquarters 
to tell me what happened, for I was due there at any moment."

In other words, the Order did not know that DD was due at 
headquarters "at any moment".  Snape did.


Dana:

> Again if LV did not know how long it took Harry to 
> show up at the DoM

houyhnhnm:

, neither did Snape.