Teachers WAS:Re: SPOILERS: School Books

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184265

Carol:
 (If Snape's
> statement were "wrong" in the sense that it contradicted the
textbook that the class was using, you can bet that Hermione, who
would have memorized the assigned chapters, would have either raised
her hand and asked him about it ("But, sir, the book says . . .") or
mentioned it to Ron and Harry after class if she was afraid of yet
another rebuke.

Pippin:
Real life has no concern for mood or pacing, but an author who ignored
them would appear just as careless of her craft as one with no concern
for  fictional facts. Indeed, having written, "No one made a sound
throughout the rest of the lesson" JKR would have to contradict both
the mood she had set and the fictional fact she had just established
in order to have Hermione say anything at all. 

After class, Harry and Hermione are  concerned with the cause of
Snape's hostility towards Lupin, not  the effects, while Ron's mind is
 entirely on his impending session with the bedpans. The boys' mood is
anger and frustration, while Hermione is pensieve, perhaps already
wondering about a connection between Lupin and werewolves. 

It's not the time for Hermione to start in about the habitat of the
kappa, and if she did, Ron and Harry would have shut her up. I can
well imagine JKR pausing, pen in hand, as she's trying to work out
where to introduce  info about where kappas actually live, and
deciding this might as well go  in a different book, just as she's
said she's saved things for the Encyclopedia. It's not as if Harry
needs additional reasons to ignore Snape. 

Pippin
admiring Carol's diligent research, as always