Teachers WAS:Re: SPOILERS: School Books

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No: HPFGUIDX 184237

Carol:
<SNIP>
Surely, if JKR had intended for Snape to be wrong in the first place,
she would have had the characters find out about it in PoA. Instead,
his supposed blunder only shows up as graffiti in FB, calling
attention to the inconsistency between Snape's statement and the
information in FB, but passing off JKR's error (perhaps pointed out to
her by people who actually know about mythological creatures) as
Snape's. (If it had been Lupin who made the statement, she might have
found some other way to deal with it.) <HUGE SNIP>


Alla:

Really? Why? It is not crucial to the plot, it just a clever attack 
on Snape's arrogance as far as I am concerned, it has nothing to do 
with major plot lines of PoA. School books are canon though, it is 
something that author wrote as a supplement to the books. Of course 
it is not necessary to read them and understand what books are all 
about, but there are a lot of extra information about beasties which 
is available only in FB and sometimes it highlights something in the 
main books, is it not?

I consider this bit to be just a little of extra high light of what I 
consider to be a very consistent characterization of Snape. And I 
have no doubt that if Lupin made this blunder, she would have dealt 
with it differently. She after all loves Lupin as a teacher and would 
want him and not any other character to teach her daughter. So I have 
no problem believing that she would not want to humiliate him further.

On the other hand, I also have no trouble believing that since Lupin 
has a sense of humor if he made this mistake, JKR could have easily 
made him remember it and admit it and laugh at it with the class. 
Snape admitting his mistake? Even if he went and checked after class. 
Snape never ever admits his mistakes, so I totally see how he would 
never admit it. I mean, to come and say that he was wrong in front of 
those **dunderheads**. It would be beneath dear Severus, IMO.

JMO, 
Alla