[HPforGrownups] Was Snape at the 3rd Task?

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 19792


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> > But then, I doubt Snape had the option of aparating.
> > After all, the tournament was going on, so he
> > couldn't get up and walk away without attracting
> > attention.   
> > Vicky
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I wonder if Snape was at the 3rd task in the first place. I don't have my
book here, but I don't remember him as being one of the monitors that walks
around the maze, waiting for wand flares - if he wasn't among them, could it
be possible that he was sitting in his dungeon, working on some nefarious
and smelly potion, thinking, "Razzenfrazzem, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor,
bratty kids keeping my wonderful slytherins from the competition," or "If it
wasn't for those scheming kids..." when the dark mark started to burn on his
arm...?  
I have a sinking feeling that the reason he didn't find Dumbledore at the
Task as soon as the mark on his arm burned black was (a) because he did go
to Voldemort then, or (b) because he wasn't at the Task and given the
apparating ban at hogwarts, it took him a few minutes to get to Dumbledore -
remember - the mark didn't burn until a while after Harry & Cedric
disapeared, so if the crowd didn't know about the disapearance, there were
only about 5-8 minutes between when the DEs were summoned & when Harry came
back.