'It's very lucky he picked tonight, you know,' said Hermione [...]. 'The one night we weren't in the tower.' (123) I'm blanking on why Sirius *was* there that particular night Sirius knew Peter was in the castle and I presume he was trying to get him/Scabbers while everyone was at the Hallowe'en feast. As a former pupil, Sirius would have known the meal that night would go on for longer than usual and everyone would be there, leaving him time and peace to get into the tower. 'You are easily satisfied. Lupin is hardly over-taxing you -- I would expect first-years to be able to deal with Red Caps and Grindylows. Today we shall discuss--' Harry watched him flick through the textbook, to the very back chapter, which he must know they hadn't covered. '--werewolves,' said Snape I think this is one of my favourite scenes with Snape. He is *so* theatrical nand I can hear the emphasis on the 'were' of werewolves and see a nasty, smirky smile on his face as he says it. The mention of the curriculum is interesting but I wonder if Snape isn't right in a way because Boggarts and similar things must be quite commonplace in wizarding households and anyone other than Muggleborns will have some experience/understanding of such things - Mrs. Weasley cleaning up Grimmaul Place enlists the help of the children and the Weasleys are all quite practised at gnome hunting at home. Learning about such things wasn't what I was expecting from DADA classes. Hermione says later it was the essay on werewolves that made her realise Lupin's problem but I think she already has an inkling of it at the beginning of this chapter, the werewolf lesson just convinces her.
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I'm blanking on why Sirius *was* there that particular night
Sirius knew Peter was in the castle and I presume he was trying to get him/Scabbers while everyone was at the Hallowe'en feast. As a former pupil, Sirius would have known the meal that night would go on for longer than usual and everyone would be there, leaving him time and peace to get into the tower.
'You are easily satisfied. Lupin is hardly over-taxing you -- I would expect first-years to be able to deal with Red Caps and Grindylows. Today we shall discuss--'
Harry watched him flick through the textbook, to the very back chapter, which he must know they hadn't covered.
'--werewolves,' said Snape
I think this is one of my favourite scenes with Snape. He is *so* theatrical nand I can hear the emphasis on the 'were' of werewolves and see a nasty, smirky smile on his face as he says it. The mention of the curriculum is interesting but I wonder if Snape isn't right in a way because Boggarts and similar things must be quite commonplace in wizarding households and anyone other than Muggleborns will have some experience/understanding of such things - Mrs. Weasley cleaning up Grimmaul Place enlists the help of the children and the Weasleys are all quite practised at gnome hunting at home. Learning about such things wasn't what I was expecting from DADA classes.
Hermione says later it was the essay on werewolves that made her realise Lupin's problem but I think she already has an inkling of it at the beginning of this chapter, the werewolf lesson just convinces her.