How we read HP books WAS :Re: Half-Blood Prince

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 183898

Alla wrote:
>  
> > I am not trying to find a solution that will satisfy me, as I
said, I believe that I saw a quote mentioning him working in the MoM 
> 
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> Oh, oh, maybe it was not in DH, but somewhere in HBP? I'll be on a 
lookout for this quote too :-). Maybe I just forgot :-)! Anyway, if we
find it, I will consider it a little Flint, LOL!

Carol responds:

Brilliant analysis of the "full-body bind" on Yaxley. I'd forgotten
that Petrificus Totalus required a countercurse (or the death of the
caster!) and didn't just wear off. (Or does it?)

But as for Yaxley being mentioned as a Ministry employee in HBP, the
only reference to him by name is as one of those who escaped arrest in
VW1 (along with Greyback, the Carrows, and Fenrir Greyback--our first
introduction to any of them before the tower scene). He appears as
"the brutal-faced Death Eater" in "Lightning-Struck Tower," after
which he's Petrified and we have the remark you quoted from Slughorn
regarding the "Stupefied Death Eater." Of the group that Snape
mentions (not counting Lucius Malfoy and Avery), only Fenrir Greyback
is actually mentioned again by name before he appears on the tower.

Carol, who thinks that events must have moved very fast in the month
and a half between HBP and DH (I fully expected Snape to be a fugitive!)