Snape and Harry and expulsion WAS: Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION Chamber of Secrets

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 188883



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>Alla

>snip to what I consider as common sense, to me attempting to attack fellow student with unforgivable curse warrants expulsion.  And sure, I brought up the example about the book because I consider this a made up rule by Snape which to me nonsense.
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> The rule forbidding to take the rare books **outside the library**? Absolutely, makes a lot of sense to me. The rule allowing taking the book, which is not rare at all by the way, outside the library, but not reading it outside? To me it does not make a yota of sense.
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> JMO,
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> Alla
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Nikkalmati

Sorry, I made a mistake with the previous post!  My finger slipped.
I thought I responded to this thought previously, but I do not see it.  Excuse me if this is a duplicate.

The rule would be that a student could not take a library book out of doors, especially true in bad weather.  The rule is not that a student can take a book outside, but cannot read it (that would be silly).  I do not believe the Trio were reading when Snape saw them, they were having a discussion around a fire conjured by Hermione and she was not sure a fire was allowed.  

Of course, a student could read his or her own books out of doors, if the student wanted to. 

Nikkalmati