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Chap 13, Nicholas Flamel.

* The chess: a brainy subject where Ron is better than Hermione!

* Ah, the first stay-here-I-must-go-verify-in-a-book from Hermione!

* I didn’t see that the last time I read it:

Next morning, in Defense Against the Dark Arts, while copying down differents ways of treating werewolf bites,…

They study werewolf every year. Wonder if the Wolfsbane was already create at this time. We really overestimate the bad level in DADA of the students. Quirrel made good lesson, at least following the syllabus. Lupin and Moody made good lessons too. The only bad teachers were Gilderoy and Umbridge.

When Snape takes Lupin’s job in POA, he has the right to think they know about the werewolves, they supposed to learn a bit with Quirrel and Gilderoy. His lesson wasn’t the first time they opens their books about the werewolves.

Or maybe Jo forgot this passage.

* Snape play the guardian angel, and in the same time, is worse to Harry. Does he feel so bad when being nice that he need to be nasty to make up?

I wonder if he sincerely think that be nice to someone without reward, or without a selfish reason is a bad thing, a show of weakness. And he hates weakness, moreover when it’s come from him. When I remember his speech about the feelings in OOTP, it’s like he can’t imagine something good can come from the feelings he see like weak.

He don’t see protecting Harry from Quirrel like a good thing to him. When you see how he react in POA, he’s all “you should thanks me!”. There (in POA), he has a “good” reason to watch him: stop who he thinks he’s a traitor, stop a murderer, and revenge himself.

While protecting Harry, in the match, in following him like a sort of bodyguard, in refereeing, he has nothing to win. No reason to suspect Voldy is in. To him, the only problem is Quirrel.

And where he first thought he’ll have only the stone to protect, now there is Harry. And he has nothing to win. It’s completely selfless, apart the debt. It’s almost noble, and for a strange reason, he hates that.

I think it’s why he never brag about his works during PS. Nothing about his participation in the protection, his attempt to stop Quirrel, the constant watching, the menacing Quirrel, the “I’ve been bit by a three-head dog to stop him”, nothing. For all we know, he doesn’t know that Harry know he protected him. And yet, he never brags about it.

You’d think he’d use the noble moment to shame Harry, not the moments where he mostly thought to himself.

I wonder how he’s come to think it’s a bad thing to be nice. You know this thing the parents says, if you kept doing this grimace, your face will stuck like that?

It’s like if in his head, if you do something nice/noble/selfless/you like, it will hurt you or even kill you.

Does he learn it from the life, or from someone else, his father, Lucius, Voldy?

* A hint about the Occlumency.

* Snape is furious because he won’t have his chance to save Harry? Or because he could have to not referee ?

* Snape had just awarded Hufflepuff a penalty because George Weasley had hit a Bludger at him.

It’s…fair! Not a good move from George though. The good things in this match, it’s that the Hufflepuff must loved Snape during the five minutes it lasted.

* At the risk to be booed (?), Malfoy had some good insults. Too bad, he stop in the next books (weasel and potty? Tut tut.).

* Wonder how you feel when a Potter streak toward you ? No wonder Snape’s white-faced.