Breaking into Snape's office

[clio44a]

No: HPFGUIDX 32932

Eloise wrote:
> The torches were still burning and the cupboard door still open not 
through 
> Crouch-Moody's carelessness or confidence at not being caught, but 
because 
> *he was still there*, hidden under this invisibility cloak.

<snip>
  
> It is also why Moody is wearing his old travelling cloak rather than 
a 
> dressing gown over his nightshirt. Travelling cloaks I envisage to 
be rather 
> large, all-enveloping kinds of garments. Perhaps he's still wearing 
the 
> invisibility cloak underneath,or else it is large enough to conceal 
how he's 
> carrying it.

Yeah, it's possible that "Moody" was still in the office when Snape 
looked at it. 


Chassie wrote:
>Well, according to Crouch Jr in the Veritaserum Chapter: 
>"I stole the boomslang skin from the dungeons. When the Potions 
>master found 
>me in his office, I said I was under orders to search it.">
>
>There you have it, the answer straight from the Veritaserumed Crouch. 
>^-^

Well, he cannot possible refer to the incident we are witnessing in 
'The Egg and the Eye', because there Snape tries get Filch to help him 
find the burglar. If he had already found "Moody" in his office, he 
wouldn`t do that. So maybe "Moody" had searched the office some 
time before, probably also in order to get boomslang skin. That would 
also explain why Snape says to Moody on the stairs that he knows Snape 
is hiding nothing. I just wonder, if there already was an occasion on 
which Snape found "Moody" in his office, wouldn't he have noticed 
already at that time that something was missing? And why did he never 
get suspicious that someone twice steals an ingredient of Polyjuice 
Potion? Do I make sense?

Clio