GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look/ Snape and Harry and Gargoyles

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 182173

Leah:
> IMO the need for ConstrainedHeadmaster Snape and bad things going on 
> at Hogwarts just doesn't gel with the Snape we have seen 
> previously.  No doubt we can say that things would have even worse 
> if one of the Carrows or the old-style Lucius Malfoy had been 
> Headmaster, but we are left with the gut feeling that Snape ought to 
> be able to do more.  The fact that he doesn't is not, I think, a 
> character fault, but a fault in the planning and structure of the 
> book.

These are really good points, Leah.  I agree that, even as a Snape
supporter, I don't have anything good to point at for Snape's reign
as Headmaster (other than his sending the kids out to the forest).

That's why it would be nice to have that short story.  Well, we don't
really need JKR to write it, do we?  There are literally hundreds (if
not thousands) of fanficcers who can do that.  And it's almost just 
as fun.

It's definitely a challenge, as it doesn't seem like Carrows should be
that difficult to get around.  And, it isn't like Voldemort is worrying
about the school or pulling surprise inspections, right?

However, there are things one could imagine that Snape does.  For
example, he might subtlely inform McGonagall about the danger 
posed to Muggleborn students if they show up at the train station,
which would allow her to grab the letters before they go out to 
those students--or send other letters to warn them to stay away.

He might have worked out a cunning plan with the Slytherins to 
pull their punches on the Crucio curses.  He might assign detentions 
that actually help the resistance students. I saw one story where he 
makes Ginny do an outrageous number of lines in his office.  And,
after about fifteen minutes, she notices that she's forced to copy 
from a book with tons of useful hexes.  She then makes sure she
keeps getting detention until she's written out the entire book.

I wrote down a drabble myself in which Snape spends the first
week of his reign obliviating everyone's memories so that they
forget Ginny and Harry used to go out--since no one was likely to 
know that they had broken up afterwards.

Montavilla47