Outsider!Snape (NOT!) (Re: Bully!Sirius, Snape's Grudge)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 43414

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> Porophyria:
> 
> > For instance, I interpret this line
> > 
> > "Unless you are suggesting that Harry and Hermione are 
able to be in  two places at once, I'm afraid I don't see any point 
in troubling  them further" 
> > 
> > as telling Snape, "They used the time turner to help Sirius 
escape,  they had my approval," as Pippin says, but not so much 
as a warning to keep this quiet as open mockery: "They used the 
time turner to help Sirius escape, they had my approval, and 
there isn't a single  thing you can do about it. So there!" I don't 
think there is any  question of whether Snape's accusation of 
Harry being involved is  illogical: I think Snape can probably think 
of a dozen magical  reasons for how Harry and Hermione could 
be, or appear to be, in two  places at once and Dumbledore 
knows this. 
> 
Eloise:
> The way I understand it, this interpretation is premised on the 
fact that there are *not* a dozen magical ways in which HH could, 
or appear to be, in  two places at once. The idea originally came 
up in response to the question  of what on earth Dumbledore 
was up to, virtually giving the game away like  that. If there were a 
number of other ways that they could have done it, then 
> surely Fudge would have been aware them too and 
Dumbledore would have been risking ringing alarm bells by 
raising the topic of bi-location.<<


Thus the twinkle in Dumbledore's eyes. He knows that Fudge 
has all the facts at his disposal. The Ministry issued the Time 
Turner in the first place. With a little thought and a little digging, 
Fudge could solve the mystery, were he not distracted by the 
raving wizard screaming and spitting beside him, the 
prospective embarrassment of having to explain that the Ministry 
has  let Sirius escape again and Buckbeak too, and 
the absurdity of the idea that the deranged youngster lying in 
bed, just recovering from a Dementor attack and obviously 
Confunded as well, could   have had anything to do with 
it.

Dumbledore's mockery is aimed squarely at Cornelius Fudge.

Pippin
who is pretty sure she posted about that coded message back 
when dinosaurs ruled the earth, but is happy to cede credit to 
Eloise if this is not the case.