CHAPDISC: DH32, The Elder Wand

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 184756

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
>
> > CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
> > Chapter 32: The Elder Wand
> 
> >Potioncat:
> 
> Great summary and questions! 
> 
> First a few reactions to the summary:
>  
> Voldemort claims he [Lucius]wants only to get into the castle and 
> > look for Draco, and asks whether Draco has not become a friend of 
> > Potter since "he did not come and join me, like the rest of the 
> „« Slytherins."
> 
> Potioncat:
> OK, I know we've discussed this before¡K"like the rest of the 
Slytherins." You know, there just aren't that many of them, because we
know at least 3 didn't show up. I can take this to mean, "like the 
rest of the anticipated Slytherin DEs" and not just a blanket "the 
whole house/6th and 7th years." So, who thinks Theo and Blaise are in
the DE camp as this conversation is going on? Do we believe (based on
this bit of conversation) that most of the 7th and 6th years reported
to LV? JKR tells us there are Slytherins with Slughorn, but she must
mean Slytherin old boys and old girls. <snip>

> Where is Severus? From the conversation that will happen in a few
moments, it will sound as if Snape had been in the battle, or in some
way observing the battle.
> 
> Granted, we come into the middle of the conversation, "¡Kmy Lord
their resistance is crumbling¡K" LV then appears to repeat that Snape
cannot re-enter the battle. Yada yada,  "Do you know why I have called
you back from the battle?" and Snape says, "..let me return.."
> 
> So, what might Snape have been doing? Does anyone think we may have
seen Snape in battle? <snip>

Carol responds:

I seriously doubt that Snape has actually been fighting though he may
have been pretending to. And he's probably watched enough of the
battle to tell Voldemort that it's going "well" (just screen out the
parts that Snape doesn't want him to see) in case Voldie uses Legimency.

But Snape at this point has one thing on his mind--not the battle, not
the Elder Wand, but "find the boy"--a duty made all the more urgent by
his seeing Nagini in her protective bubble.

Carol, who almost called JKR HRH (for Her Royal Highness) until she
remembered that, duh, we use that abbreviation for something else

P.S. If anyone wonders, I'm between chapters (finished with one and
waiting for another) on the editing project from hell