GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look

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No: HPFGUIDX 182109

I love chapter 27, love love love everything about it, love Sirius' 
excurse in the past, love his trip down memory lane about Snape and 
his gang, LOVE how Harry notices his deadened look returning when he 
talks about Azkaban, LOVE how he is so hungry after eating rats ( 
allusion to Peter?), but that is nothing new, the only thing which 
sort of jumped at me is this :

If Sirius knows about DE, why doesn't he know what Dark mark is?

Does that make sense? I mean, of course we all remember that he does 
not know what is on Snape and Karkaroff's forearm, but he seems to 
know pretty well what DE are.

I am trying to say that do you think it is plausible that he knows 
who DE are, but not about mark?

"Was his son a Death Eater?" said Harry.
"No idea," said Sirius, still stuffing down bread" - p.528

Alla:

I was never able to jump from the fence on this one. Was he or was 
not he?


"His strange appearance however, was nothing to the way he was 
behaving. Muttering and gesticulating, Mr. Crouch appeared to be 
talking to someone that he alone could see. He reminded Harry vividly 
of an old tramp he had seen once when out shopping with Dursleys. 
That man too had been conversing wildly with thin air. " - p.554

Alla:

Huh? Is it Barty being completely crasy already or something else?


This chapter 28 also introduces one of the most despicable Snape 
moments in the whole book as far as I am concerned, but I am too lazy 
to quote it again and I brought it up many times in the past. Yeah, 
talking about Snape not telling Harry where Dumbledore is. No, I do 
not think Snape was just conversing with Harry till Dumbledore 
arrives, I do not see any proof that Snape KNEW that Dumbledore will 
show up, so as far as I am concerned Snape was just satisfying his 
sadistic streak here and it is possible that Barty could have been 
saved by Dumbledore, if only Snape let Harry see Dumbledore a moment 
earlier. My opinion of course.


"If Snape hadn't held me up," Harry said bitterly, "we might've got 
there on time. "The headmaster is busy, Potter... what's this rubbish 
Potter?" Why couldn't he have just got out of the way?" - p.566


Alla:

Me too, Harry, me too :-)