'If I ever find out who threw this,' Snape whispered, 'I shall make sure that person is expelled.' (141) This isn't really an unfair response.
Damn right. If I were teaching a class with potentially dangerous ingredients and some twit threw a firecracker into a beaker or what have you, I would be seriously upset. Anyone with half a brain would be. I'd expell the little creep myself. And it sure looks like Snape knows, or at least suspects, who's the culprit.
'Let me introduce my assistant Professor Snape,' said Lockhart, flashing a wide smile. 'He tells me he knows a tiny little bit about duelling himself and has sportingly agreed to help me with a short demonstration before we begin[...]' (142) Any thoughts on what really happened here?
Great questions! One of the Hogwarts Letters I'm overdue on is Snape's response to Lockhart's flirtatious invitation to the duel. I can't imagine how Lockhart managed to talk Snape into it; I'd be inclined to think that Snape would be slicing up filet de Gilderoy that evening in his dungeon for even daring to suggest such a thing.
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Date: 2004-10-21 11:45 pm (UTC)This isn't really an unfair response.
Damn right. If I were teaching a class with potentially dangerous ingredients and some twit threw a firecracker into a beaker or what have you, I would be seriously upset. Anyone with half a brain would be. I'd expell the little creep myself. And it sure looks like Snape knows, or at least suspects, who's the culprit.
'Let me introduce my assistant Professor Snape,' said Lockhart, flashing a wide smile. 'He tells me he knows a tiny little bit about duelling himself and has sportingly agreed to help me with a short demonstration before we begin[...]' (142)
Any thoughts on what really happened here?
Great questions! One of the Hogwarts Letters I'm overdue on is Snape's response to Lockhart's flirtatious invitation to the duel. I can't imagine how Lockhart managed to talk Snape into it; I'd be inclined to think that Snape would be slicing up filet de Gilderoy that evening in his dungeon for even daring to suggest such a thing.