GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 182121

Alla:
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> You are right about the sadistic streak :-), but I don't think 
> Mr.Crouch could have been saved. Keep in mind that Crouch Jr. was 
> already in the forest when Harry and Viktor met Crouch Sr. 
> Crouch/Moody explains it all later in the "Veritaserum" chapter. He 
> saw his father on the map and went to the forest to intercept him, 
> but at that moment Harry and Viktor appeared and started talking to 
> Crouch Sr., so Fake!Moody had to wait until Harry left. He stunned 
> Krum and killed Mr.Crouch immediately after that, so there is no way 
> DD could have saved him, even if he came earlier.
>
Carol responds:
And there is also no way that DD could have come down the stairs
faster than he already did. (If you read the scene, it really isn't
long; Snape must have know that DD was coming.) Snape prevented Harry
from running off down the wrong corridor, detaining him just long
enough for DD to reach the bottom of the stairs. Had he not done so,
Harry would not have found DD at all.

Carol, who agrees that Snape was giving Harry a hard time but believes
that there was a method in his teasing (we know where his loyalties
lie, after all)