Did whatever Snape was planning for Rianne to do already happen?
There is his weird clap in the great hall, and his smile after chiding Jaime Astorga. Apparently he warned Jaime and others that morning, perhaps he anticipated them reacting in this particular way and be beaten by the girls? Why? And it seems the fight was fairly close run, so he shouldn’t have been able to predict the result unless he just got lucky (or relied on future information). Perhaps he planned for either outcome, but what is he even trying to accomplish?
And how does Rianne fit into everything? Did she do something to influence Jaime or cast the jinx on Hermione (why?), or is her part still to come? And why does she need to be memory-charmed? The stakes don’t seem to be high enough to require something like that, unless this whole plot is part of something greater (if it was just a high cost of his allies (either group) learning about it why should he take such a risk in the first place?).
Well, Snape himself was bullied, and earlier in the story he asked HP to stop a bully, so I’m guessing he orchestrated the fight to raise the reputation of SPEW and marginalize the bullies. It was mentioned that a first year wouldn’t be able to break the protego spell, so perhaps he helped out?
This would, of course, mean that he delivered the letters and/or orchestrated the “prophecy” as well.
As a side note—it’s been so long since the last update that it took me maybe 1/4th of the chapter to fully understand what’s going on. Perhaps I should have skimmed 71 before reading.
Final side note—Eliezer, what do you think of ASOIAF?
FFSN—On the whole ‘forgetting the story’ theme—who was Rianne?
Is the Half-Blood, Legilimens, Snape sending a message to Quirrell with the SPHEW setup? Harry’s use of Slytherin messaging and Margaret Bulstrode’s Time-turner declare a Slytherin confederate, if Snape has looked.
[Snape requested the check of Harry’s time turner after Azkaban (para 62.99)]
“a successful Legilimens was extremely rare, rarer than a perfect Occlumens, because almost no one had enough mental discipline.” (Dumbledore, Snape, Mr Bester, presumably Quirrel)
“Harry noticed that he was confused.
And his threat estimate of the Head of House Slytherin shot up astronomically.”
[Rianne being memory-charmed would be required for information security if she was part of the SPHEW setup
using Bulstrode’s time-turner, perhaps also in tuning Jaime Astorga’s fall to Daphne’s Most Ancient Blade.
If Hermione or another SPHEW member, (Tracey?) remembers that Quirrel has permission to teach the Killing Curse,
the dynamics change.]
Chapter 72:
Did whatever Snape was planning for Rianne to do already happen?
There is his weird clap in the great hall, and his smile after chiding Jaime Astorga. Apparently he warned Jaime and others that morning, perhaps he anticipated them reacting in this particular way and be beaten by the girls? Why? And it seems the fight was fairly close run, so he shouldn’t have been able to predict the result unless he just got lucky (or relied on future information). Perhaps he planned for either outcome, but what is he even trying to accomplish?
And how does Rianne fit into everything? Did she do something to influence Jaime or cast the jinx on Hermione (why?), or is her part still to come? And why does she need to be memory-charmed? The stakes don’t seem to be high enough to require something like that, unless this whole plot is part of something greater (if it was just a high cost of his allies (either group) learning about it why should he take such a risk in the first place?).
Well, Snape himself was bullied, and earlier in the story he asked HP to stop a bully, so I’m guessing he orchestrated the fight to raise the reputation of SPEW and marginalize the bullies. It was mentioned that a first year wouldn’t be able to break the protego spell, so perhaps he helped out?
This would, of course, mean that he delivered the letters and/or orchestrated the “prophecy” as well.
As a side note—it’s been so long since the last update that it took me maybe 1/4th of the chapter to fully understand what’s going on. Perhaps I should have skimmed 71 before reading.
Final side note—Eliezer, what do you think of ASOIAF?
FFSN—On the whole ‘forgetting the story’ theme—who was Rianne?
Rianne appeared in the previous chapter when Snape offered her fifty Galleons for something that, much to her dismay, was probably not sex.
As for Snape’s goal, maybe the Head of Slytherin House has his own, in-character plan to restore Slytherin’s reputation?
Is the Half-Blood, Legilimens, Snape sending a message to Quirrell with the SPHEW setup? Harry’s use of Slytherin messaging and Margaret Bulstrode’s Time-turner declare a Slytherin confederate, if Snape has looked. [Snape requested the check of Harry’s time turner after Azkaban (para 62.99)]
“a successful Legilimens was extremely rare, rarer than a perfect Occlumens, because almost no one had enough mental discipline.” (Dumbledore, Snape, Mr Bester, presumably Quirrel)
“Harry noticed that he was confused. And his threat estimate of the Head of House Slytherin shot up astronomically.”
[Rianne being memory-charmed would be required for information security if she was part of the SPHEW setup using Bulstrode’s time-turner, perhaps also in tuning Jaime Astorga’s fall to Daphne’s Most Ancient Blade.
If Hermione or another SPHEW member, (Tracey?) remembers that Quirrel has permission to teach the Killing Curse, the dynamics change.]