The AK that was (or wasn't)

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pip at e...> wrote:
> 
> Kneasy:
> > Always open to persuasion, of course.
> 
> 
> If I start vaguely hinting 'conspiracy between Snape and 
> Dumbledore', will you feel happier?
> 
> Pip!Squeak
> 

'Course there's a conspiracy, "as ane fule kno" ('scuse the
Molesworth quote, he's my favouritest boarding school inmate.
Keep trying to match the characters - Luna makes a pretty neat
Fotherington-Thomas - he says things like 'Hallo, clouds - 
hallo, sky' - "he is uterly wet and kepes dollies at home.") 

It's just that  we have different 'conspiracies' in mind.
Or not so much a conspiracy as a bit of arm-twisting - "I cop
something really nasty messing with Voldy stuff and you zap 
me - OK? Don't worry about young Potter, I'll make sure he
doesn't interfere."

IIRC DD freezes Harry before he knows who's coming through
the door; he thinks it's going to be Snape, but it's Draino. But he
holds Harry frozen until Snape has done the dirty deed and death
breaks the spell.

Snape doesn't like it, but he's promised.
Hence his reaction when Harry calls him a coward.

Kneasy