HBP Spoilers - - ESE! Flitwick

[Judy]

entropymail wrote:
> Hi there, all. Posted this one on the main board, but it's just so
> swamped over there...
> 
> Anyway, I sure would like some help with this one. If you could give
> me some reaction, some help in proving/disproving the idea, it would
> be much appreciated. Here's how it goes:
> 
> We think that the scene in which Flitwick runs down to rouse Snape 
> is quite suspicious. Snape could have been alerted in many other 
> ways, such as the Order's patronus method. But JKR chose to have 
> Flitwick alert Snape and, more importantly, to have Hermione and
> Luna witness
> him enter and exit the room but *not* witness what actually happened
> while he was in there. Their testimony of what happened is only what
> they could gather from listening in....

I'm fairly certain Flitwick is *not* in the Order, and therefore 
could not have used the Patronus method to alert Snape. Not only is 
he never mentioned as being in the Order, but in OoP, when 
Dumbledore, Hagrid, and Minerva are gone from Hogwarts, Harry thinks 
none of the Order is left, and then remembers that Snape is the last 
Order member left. 

Of course, *why* Flitwick isn't in the Order is itself an interesting 
question.....

-- Judy