Teachers WAS:Re: SPOILERS: School Books

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 184260

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
> ---  "Steve" <bboyminn@> wrote:
> 
> I'll add one more point that occurred to me. WE'VE made this
> about Kappas, but that is not what it is about to Snape.
> He could care less were Kappas are more commonly found. This
> is about Lupin, and Snape's determination to undermine Lupin
> in the eyes of the students. 
> 
> It has nothing, from Snape's point of view, to do with Kappas,
> it is about discrediting and undermining Lupin. 
> 
> We can't even say that Snape's statement is indeed fact. He
> may have just made it up, again, to undermine Lupin.
> 
Leah:

Well, yes, he does want to discredit Lupin, but I don't believe he'd 
do so by making up a 'fact' in a class containing the 'insufferable 
know it all'.   Hermione debates with Snape whether they should in 
fact be turning to page 394; she's not likely to let a Kappa 
correction go unchecked and unchallenged.

So it's more likely that Snape either genuinely thinks he is right, 
but is mistaken, or actually is right. The fact that we don't hear 
Hermione call him on Kappas, at least in private to Harry and Ron 
suggests Snape was probably right, or as has been suggested before, 
that JKR thought he was right at the time she was writing POA.

Leah