CoS Chapter 11 post DH look

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 181295

"potioncat" wrote:
> 
> > Yaxley is taller than Snape, who is shorter than Black.
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> Yeah, I remember that Yaxley is taller from Ch.1, but it means 
nothing to me, because I have no idea how tall Snape is. In your
sentence he is shorter than everybody :-).

Carol responds:

However, Snape, unlike Wormtail (and Slughorn?), is never described as
short, only thin, and IIRC, Black is described in PoA as being tall.
That would make Snape most likely average height. Also, he's
definitely taller than fifteen-year-old Harry or his sixteen-year-old
self since the narrator mentions that Harry is facing a fully grown
Snape in one of the Occlumency lessons in OoP. Evidently, he grew a
bit and lost his bad posture (Hermione, too, is perceived as
stoop-shouldered from hauling around so many books but seems capable
of standing straight at the Yule Ball.)

At any rate, height advantage or not, Yaxley is envious of Snape's
position (literally, LV's right-hand man) in DH and obeys him in HBP
when Snape orders the DEs off the tower (of course, Yaxley gets only
as far as the doorway before Harry Petrifies him <g>).

Snape may not be particularly tall, but he isn't short, and his
commanding presence and intimidating stare (as an adult) apparently
make up for any difference in height between him and Yaxley (or Sirius
Black). They work pretty well on students, too, if their silence when
he enters a room is any indication.

IIRC, he's taller than Narcissa as well.

On a sidenote, it's interesting that Lupin is twice described as
"young' or "quite young," yet Snape, who's the same age, never is.

Carol, not sure how helpful any of this is