Did Snape set up the Pensieve scene?

[lizzyben04]

No: HPFGUIDX 169374

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Aslý Tümerkan"
<aslitumerkan at ...> wrote:
>
> I couldn't find the part about Montague's disappearence but I
remember as he spent a lot more in the vanishing closet than a day.
Are you sure? The apparition evidence is very intriguing though.
>
> Asli
>

He spent about a day in a half in the closet. So he'd be tired &
hungry, but why would he need to spend the rest of the term in the
hospital? Basically, I just CAN'T think of a valid explanation for how
Montague ended up in that bathroom.  The books inform us, numerous
times, that people can't apparate at Hogwarts. Snape says the same
thing in POA, when he says that Black couldn't have apparated out of
the castle. Yet Draco claims Montague apparated out of the closet? It
doesn't make sense. Either JKR forgot this obvious principle
(doubtful), or she's trying to signal that something else really
happened there. I also think it's interesting that she took the time
to describe the potion that Montague was drinking in the clinic - why
bother? She usually doesn't bother w/details like that unless they
become important later on. It's like Anton Chekov's rule of drama: a
gun you see in Act One must go off by Act Three. A sketchy apparition
& potion you see in Book 5 must go off in Book 6.

Also, why was the cabinet moved to the Room of Requirement in Book 6?
Why weren't Fred & George ever punished for this? Why didn't Snape
investigate this impossible "apparition"? He's a logical man, & he
must have realized that there's more to the story. The whole thing
seems very odd - especially when you consider that that same cabinet
was later used to smuggle 6 Death Eaters into Hogwarts in the next
book. I think, once Montague said that the Cabinets connect Hogwarts
to Borgin & Burke, SOMEBODY thought this information was too important
to get out. So Montague's memory was erased, his body was moved, and
he was given befuddlement potion until the end of term so that he
couldn't share the story with anyone else.

lizzyben04