Snape and Crouch Jr. (Was: Trelawney, Polyjuice Potion, house elves and Fudge

[romuluslupin1]

No: HPFGUIDX 113870

> So, as intelligent and shrewd as Snape is (he knew perfectly well 
who
> was standing on top of the stairs in his invisibility cloak, for
> example), Crouch's choice of people to impersonate (or his luck in 
the
> victim chosen for him) combined with Snape's belief that Harry put 
his
> own name in the cup prevented Snape, IMO, from figuring out that 
Moody
> was an imposter with a sinister ulterior motive. 

RL answers:
AD said only a trained powerful wizard could hoodwink the GOF. Do 
you think SS disbelieved AD? Why does he think HP is a dunderhead, 
then, if he's so powerful to do it? I can understand that his first 
reaction was to accuse HP, but he had a lot of time to think about 
it.

One more thing, unless boomstrang (sp?)is used for other things than 
polyjuice potion, how come SS suspected HP? C!M must have stolen 
quite a lot of it, wouldn't SS suspect that the polyjuiced guy was 
staying in someone else's shoes for a long while (as opposed to the 
trio who only polyjuiced for an hour)? HP was always there as 
himself (at lessons, in the Hall, etc). BTW, doesn't SS think HP 
below average in potions? how oculd he be making PP?

Romulus Lupin, who thinks SS isn't as logical as some would make him 
out to be and is sure he wants to believe the worst about Harry for 
his own nefarious reasons