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Summer... ending... so soon... As usual, there is so much that I meant to do and then just never got around to. I did the Great Potter Re-Read, and then completely neglected to post about it. Well, I'm too lazy now to make it up, but there is one question that has been bothering me and that I wish I could clear up.
Okay, so, Prisoner of Azkaban. Snape's Grudge, Chapter Fourteen. Page 288, if you've got the American edition.
"Indeed?" said Snape. His jaw had gone rigid with anger. "You think a joke shop could supply him with such a thing? You don't think it more likely that he got it directly from the manufacturers?"
Harry didn't understand what Snape was talking about. Nor, apparently, did Lupin.
Nor, apparently, did Bethany. What exactly is this scene supposed to mean? The implication seems to be that Snape knows the identity of the Marauders, and has made the Sirius/Padfoot connection. But if he knows that Sirius was one of the makers of the map, then wouldn't he also know that Lupin helped make it as well? Yet he lets Lupin fudge his way right out of it, pretending that he's never heard of any of the Marauders before. It does all seem to happen too quickly to allow Snape to protest, so that might explain it (even though Snape does not at all seem the type who would let something like that go!). But still, then why does Snape instantly assume that Harry got it from Sirius? I mean, it's not like one of the Marauders was Harry's own father or anything! I guess I just feel unsure about exactly how much Snape knows about the Marauders.
Okay, so, Prisoner of Azkaban. Snape's Grudge, Chapter Fourteen. Page 288, if you've got the American edition.
"Indeed?" said Snape. His jaw had gone rigid with anger. "You think a joke shop could supply him with such a thing? You don't think it more likely that he got it directly from the manufacturers?"
Harry didn't understand what Snape was talking about. Nor, apparently, did Lupin.
Nor, apparently, did Bethany. What exactly is this scene supposed to mean? The implication seems to be that Snape knows the identity of the Marauders, and has made the Sirius/Padfoot connection. But if he knows that Sirius was one of the makers of the map, then wouldn't he also know that Lupin helped make it as well? Yet he lets Lupin fudge his way right out of it, pretending that he's never heard of any of the Marauders before. It does all seem to happen too quickly to allow Snape to protest, so that might explain it (even though Snape does not at all seem the type who would let something like that go!). But still, then why does Snape instantly assume that Harry got it from Sirius? I mean, it's not like one of the Marauders was Harry's own father or anything! I guess I just feel unsure about exactly how much Snape knows about the Marauders.