Re: Speculation: did Snape know Moaning Myrtle? was Marauders

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:13:20 -0000, dicconf@xxxxxxxxx (Richard Eney)
wrote:

In article <vhngh.90$8F3.70@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jean Lamb <tlambs1138@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I think there's reason the Half-Blood Prince's comment became lots more
angry that sixth year--The Shrieking Shack. He was probably convinced the
Marauders would kill him and Dumbledore would let them get away with it
unless he learned how to defend himself.

That could be. There may even be some support for it.

Rampant speculation follows:

In CoS, Snape comments that he didn't think ghosts served edible food
at their private parties. This implies that Snape knows something
about them; perhaps he attended one, years ago. Did Snape hear some
of Moaning Myrtle's story? She seems to lend a sympathetic ear (at
least briefly) to the most desperately unhappy students.

_If_ Snape did learn that Moaning Myrtle died at the school as a result
of a monster attack, not an accident (and that therefore she wasn't
just a random ghost who happens to hang out there, which seems to be
true of, for instance, N-H-Nick), then he could have realized it
really _could_ happen that a student would die and the circumstances
of the death would be covered up. If he knew that, then seeing the
cover-up of what happened to him might have completely convinced him
that Dumbledore would have covered up his death if it had happened.

=Tamar


But Dd wasn't Headmaster back then, Dippet was. No reason to think DD
would cover it up like his predecessor did. Covering up an attack to
protect a student is one thing. Covering up a death is quite another.
.