Could Harry have saved Snape? (was Reacting to DH...)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 178034

Potioncat:
> I don't think Arthur was poisoned, he was bleeding just like Snape. 
> Harry commented on the amount of blood.  Nagini's venom seemed to 
> prevent the wound from healing, rather than killing. But, this is 
> from my memory, not a canon review.

Ceridwen:
Harry dreamed about Arthur's attack through his VoldyVision.  It 
took, I would say, nearly half an hour, perhaps longer, for 
Dumbledore to send help.  Harry woke his dorm mates, Neville went for 
McGonagall, Harry had to explain what he had seen and convince her 
that it wasn't just a dream but something more; they went to 
Dumbledore's office and told him, and he sent two former Heads to the 
Ministry and St. Mungo's respectively to try and help.  The Head who 
went to the Ministry said he had to yell a while before anyone 
heard.  There was copious amounts of blood, three strikes by the 
snake, and the satisfying crunch of bone.  The dream and its 
immediate aftermath can be found in OotP, chapter 21: The Eye of the 
Snake, pages 462-465, and chapter 22: St. Mungo's Hospital for 
Magical Maladies and Ijuries, pages 466-471.

Potioncat:
> Hermione had dittny--which she used very quickly to stop Ron from 
> bleeding. It was in her very big little bag. 

Ceridwen:
Ron's splinch was pretty big, too.  It took him a while to recover 
his strength.

Potioncat:
*(snip)*
> As the reader caught up in the events I am furious that neither 
Harry 
> nor Hermione tried to help Snape--even if it wouldn't have worked.

Ceridwen:
Hermione sank below the sub-sub-basement for me here.  Miss Level-
headed in a Crisis, and all she can do is conjure a phial?  Sorry.  
She was level-headed enough to bounce-Apparate when Yaxley grabbed 
onto her after leaving the MoM, she could have remembered her 
carefully-planned store of dittany.  Instead, she came off as 
Redshirt number two, giving Kirk whatever he needs, with far less 
effective results.

Potioncat:
> I agree with Pippin. That neither Harry nor Hermione tried to save 
> Snape was tragic.

Ceridwen:
That part of Pippin's post was so depressing!  Both Harry and 
Hermione suffered in my estimations of them in that scene even before 
her post, perhaps more than in any other scene but the Ravenclaw 
Cruciatus.  It was tragic, and unnecessary.  Harry was not a hero, he 
was just a kid reacting, nothing more.

Ceridwen.