Sorting / Baddock / Sbape, Snape, Snape, Snape

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 185850

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady@> 
> wrote:
> 
> Alla:
>  
> > << One would think that if JKR wanted to make a point that Snape 
does
> > that to unlucky soul every year, she would have made a point of
> > mentioning it. She did not, so I choose to think that Snape does 
not
> > do it every year. >>
> 
> Catlady: 
> > It has been suggested on list that he normally starts each class 
with
> > those three questions, but to three different students, so no one
> > feels singled out.
> 
> Geoff:
> The operative word there being "normally". So what happened 
> in September 1991?
> :-(

Zara:
We know he asks a question following his opening speech on first days 
of school. We have, after all, seen two such scenes. IN the second, 
he was given a correct answer. Perhaps he asked addditional questions 
in the first case, because he was not.