CHAPTER DISCUSSION Chamber of Secrets Ch. 5. The Whomping Willow

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jerrichase" <danjerri at ...> wrote:
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> If Snape had really wanted Harry out of Hogwarts, why didn't he suggest it when Harry had actually attacked someone in a way that could well have caused death?  Yes, it was selfdefense of a sort, but it would have been difficult for Harry to prove that.


Alla:

I would argue because he had no chance to pull this off. All Dumbledore needed to do was to legilimence the participants and find out that it was indeed self defense, or at least this is how I interpret hitting back somebody who attacks you with deadly curse. Yes, I know Harry could have used lesser curse, no to me that does not change the fact that Draco attacked him first with bad curse too.

And I would also say that Snape did not try that because if Snape makes the accusation, Dumbledore hands could have been tied too, but in a different way. I would think that he would have no choice but to expel Draco  together with Harry, and that was something that Snape did not want.

JMO of course.