Snape's warning

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No: HPFGUIDX 78241


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "flavia_pozzatti" 
> <flavia_pozzatti at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm sorry if this subject has been discussed before, but I'm new 
> here 
> > and the search engine hasn't helped me.
> > 
> > As I was rereading the final chapters of OoP, a question crossed 
my 
> > mind. After checking whether Sirius was OK, how long did it take 
> > Snape to realise that Harry and the others had gone to the MoM?
> > 
> > I can't help thinking that if Snape had warned the members of the 
> > Order sooner, the outcome of the battle could have been different.
> > 

I don't have my copy of OOtP at hand but I
think he wasn't aware that they had gone to the MOM. How could he? 
There should have been no way students could have gone there (no Floo 
and so on). He surely didn't count that they would use Thestrals to 
fly there. And Dumbledore says he went looking for them in the 
Forbidden Forest where he (rightly with all the information he had) 
assumed they were. And he did warn the others of the Order about 
Harry going missing (Dumbledore explains Snape's role in one of the 
last chapters). Harry was only too stupid to realize it was a trick 
of Voldemort and got all the others in danger. If he had stayed at 
school no one would have gotten hurt. I think the others only knew 
where he was after he had gone to the Ministry, they surely have some 
security system in case someone does break into it (what Harry and 
his friends did – btw. why is no one accusing them of burglary
and 
being out of school grounds? If I were Fudge I would.). So they went 
there and as Snape was in the Forest and they could hardly take their 
own spy with them to rescue Harry from Voldemort, he had to stay away.

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