GoF chapter 24-26 Post DH look

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 182034

> Alla:
> And hmmm, how does Snape know that Moody searched his office before 
> if he shows up on the map as Crouch?

zgirnius:
Snape does not have the map. I think he knows someone searched his 
office, and presumed it was Moody. He's the new teacher, it fits his 
persona as the paranoid ex-Auror, and perhaps Snape feels other 
similar suspects are ruled out. (Crouch Sr. due to lack of access, 
Karkaroff because, well, why? Igor knows Snape was a Death Eater, and 
Igor is planning to run away rather than involve himself in any of 
the upcoming excitement anyway).

> Alla:
> Yeah, I think Hagrid had some potential for good teacher, sigh.

zgirnius:
Like Severus, he kbnows his subject matter. <eg>

> Alla:
> But I would think that young Barty due to being with Winky all the 
> time before would be the person to pay very close attention to 
house 
> elves near him and that he would have noticed Dobby, unless Dobby 
was 
> invisible?

zgirnius:
I think you are right that Barty Jr. is very aware of House Elves. He 
deliberately brought up the subject of gillyweed in a conversation 
with Minerva because he knew Dobby was listening, in order to help 
Harry win the TWT. He admits it to Harry in the scene in "Moody's" 
office after Harry return sfrom thre graveyard.

> GOF:
> "So what could I do? Feed you information from another innocent 
source. You told me at the Yule Ball a house-elf called Dobby had 
given you a Christmas present. I called the elf to the staffroom to 
collect some robes for cleaning. I staged a loud conversation with 
Professor McGonagall about the hostages who had been taken, and 
whether Potter would think to use gillyweed. And your little elf 
friend ran straight to Snape's office and then hurried to find you..."

> Alla:
> Love, how she drops hints about Dumbledore's academic talents. Have 
> we met another person in the series but him who can do so?

zgirnius:
Dirk Cresswell, a talented Muggleborn who was a former protege of 
Slughorn, speaks Gobbledygook. So knowing the language of another 
intelligent magical species is not an unprecedented accomplishment, 
though I can think of no one else who knows Mermish specifically.