Where did Snape go Was: Trelawney and Ignorance

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No: HPFGUIDX 96387

> Potioncat wrote:
> As I was finishing OoP, it seemed to me to be a long time between 
> the DA leaving the forest and the Order members arriving at the
> DoM.  It seems Snape verified Serius was safe and thought(?) Harry
> was with Umbridge. Somehow (?) he learned they had gone into the 
> forest and had not come out.  Did he look, then notify the order?
> When did he stop looking and why didn't he find Umbridge?  Or did
> he find her and not care, since Harry wasn't with her. I believe it
> said he organized a search.  I wonder who else was looking?

Lilian:

I need to read OotP at least three times more before even trying to 
start answering questions like these on the top off my head, but hey, 
what's life without adventure (said she from behind the computer :-)

After he had verified that Sirius was safe, would Snape not have 
tried to convey this information to Harry? First place to look: 
Umbridge's office. There he would have learned from the inquisitorial 
squad that Umbridge went into the forest with Harry and Hermione.

DD said later that Snape 'conducted' a search, so I presume that he 
did it on his own. Still, the forest is not small so trying to track 
them down will take quite some time. -on a side note: how fast do 
thestrals fly?-
I'm quite sure Snape would not have bothered with Umbridge, had he 
found her, but OTOH if he did he would also have encountered the 
centaurs. I don't think they would let Snape go, being an adult human 
and all.

> Potioncat wrote:
> And another missing moment.  Back in CoS, Quirrell says that Snape 
> watched him closely.  So why didn't Snape know that Quirrell was in 
> the Chamber? or at least that both Quirrell and the trio were 
> unaccounted for?
> 

Lilian:

Erm ... don't mean to offend, but ... aren't you mixing things up a 
bit? Quirrell and the Chamber?

Anyway, in PS/SS Snape did try to keep a close watch on the trio, but 
they went of in the dead of night, from their dormitory, covered by 
the invisibility cloak. If Snape was anywhere around, patrolling, he 
would have assumed that the trio was in their beds as well as 
Quirrell. Snape has no legitimate right to enter Gryffindor tower, 
nor Quirrell's private quarters. 
But then again, he may have tried to alert DD, who later said 
(paraphrasing from memory): 'When I arrived at the MoM, I found that 
I should be at Hogwarts'. Urgent message waiting for him?

Lilian