Still the Prank

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 184987

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at ...> wrote:

> Y'know, if Sevvie often observed (from hiding) Pomfrey escorting 
> Remus to the Whomping Willow, poking the Willow with a long stick 
> so it stopped whomping, and then Remus going down into a hole, why >
didn't he figure out from watching Pomfrey how to put the Willow 
> on pause, and not needed one word from Sirius?


zanooda:

I've always had an impression that Snape saw Madam Pomfrey take Lupin
to the Willow not "often", but only once, from Lupin's words: " ...
Snape had seen me crossing the grounds with Madam Pomfrey one evening
as she led me toward the Whomping Willow to transform. Sirius thought
it would be - er - amusing, to tell Snape all he had to do was prod
the knot on the tree trunk with a long stick, and he'd be able to get
in after me" (p.357 Am.ed.).

>From this (especially "one evening" part :-)) I gathered, maybe
wrongly, that it all happened in one evening. Snape saw Pomfrey and
Lupin go to the Willow from afar (so he didn't notice *how* they got
in), then Sirius, who was also around, noticed Snape and told him how
to get in. I may be totally wrong about this, of course, it's just my
impression :-).


> Catlady wrote:
 
> Maybe one of the protections on the tunnel is that it is usually 
> very small (altho' not small *enough* to actually protect anyone 
> from going in or out of it) but it becomes large when someone 
> says the password.


zanooda:

Very good idea :-).