Snipe or Snape was Exceeds Expectations???

[snow15145]

Talisman:

Nope, it really does seem like a meaningless Snipe Hunt meant to
keep us distracted without providing any clues.

Snow:

Down here, in this neck of the woods, they call it a Snape hunt but 
then again we call a creek a crick and a rubber band; gumband
so just 
about everyone knows we are Pittsburghers when we leave are 
territory. (In fact it's called Pittsburgh-eze, a smidge like we are 
from the Bronx only Pennsylvania not New York; both cities' languages 
are fairly disgusting when it comes down to grammar and yet both are 
proud of it)

I rather like the reference to Professor Snape being a hunt though
it 
does fit with the `find something that doesn't exist about him theme' 
or in the Snipe/Snape hunt scenario; a wild goose chase. 

The subject you most want to gag on could just be the very biggest 
red herring. Everyone is lead away by Snape (or Snipe) only to find 
he is a diversion to the truth. Why would any character in a story 
have more posts written about him than the main character and yet to 
date Snape holds the count.

This is much like these WOMBAT tests
nothing more than a Snipe/Snape 
hunt leading us away, which of course is what you said to begin with 
but drawn out in detail. ;) 
and yet making little sense.