SPOILERS: First Read Rant

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Spoilery space, spoilery space, spoilery space, don't you read
Spoilery space, spoilery space, spoilery space, don't you read
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Pippin wrote:
> When has Harry ever paid attention to Snape? It's perfectly in
> character that he would forget the cramped handwriting --Snape's 
> handwriting on Harry's papers tends to run more to large capital 
> T's, I think. I do think that Harry was steered to that book on 
> purpose./Somebody/ wanted him to have it. Notice that apart from 
>  Ron, none of the other students in the class were unprepared. 
> Surely they didn't all get Outstandings? Nope, definitely dodgy.
> 

Pip:
I presume DD must have known which OWL grades Harry got, and then 
promptly made sure that the *Potions* master was replaced - with one 
who accepted 'Exceeds Expectations' students.

And he didn't tell Harry what Slughorn taught, so Harry didn't know 
to get the textbook and supplies. Again, presumably he must know 
that Harry expressed the ambition to be an auror to McGonagall. But 
why is it so important that Harry know potions?

As to the book - do you think there are charms that can be set on 
something, so that it's given to a particular person?


 
> Pippin:
> To show that the rot in the Ministry is systemic rather than a
> matter of a few bad apples in the barrel. It has to be, to set up
> the stage for ESE!Lupin. Lupin the spy on the werewolves is
> confirmed as predicted, and notice how he said they were his
> "equals." And he's the one who tells us the mist is because
> the dementors are breeding, confirming his knowledge of 
> these creatures.

Pip:
Snape didn't like Tonk's patronus - which we now know is a werewolf. 
He says it 'looks weak'. Now this could refer to how ill Lupin is - 
but it could also signal an ESE Lupin who turns to the DE's out of 
weakness - despair at the corruption of the WW, despair at the way 
werewolves are treated.

Pip!Squeak

"Where do you think I would have been all these years, if I had not 
known how to act?" - Severus Snape