Teachers WAS:Re: SPOILERS: School Books

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184261

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> Leah:
> 
> 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.
> 

Pippin:
Hermione was in tears over being called an insufferable know-it-all,
and Snape was threatening dire consequences for anyone who interrupted
the class or criticized his teaching. Even if she wasn't too busy
nursing her hurt feelings or taking notes on werewolves to notice what
Snape was saying, I doubt she would have thought it worth the
consequences to disagree with him.

It could well have been Hermione who pointed out to Harry and Ron that
FB says something different about kappas. 

Pippin