GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 182132

> > Pippin:
> > I think Dumbledore decides whom Dumbledore is going to see, don't 
> you? 
> > Snape was messing Harry about, for sure, but even if Dumbledore had
> > gotten there in time it would only have been a brief reprieve.
>  
> > Fake!Moody would never have allowed his father to reach Dumbledore
> > without some kind of trouble. If he feared he was  about to be
> > exposed, he'd have nothing to lose by killing Harry.  
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Eh, sure Dumbledore decides whom Dumbledore is going to see if 
> Dumbledore **knows** who is here to see him. I do not see that 
> Dumbledore knew that at all.
> 
> It surely may have been a brief reprieve, my point is that thanks to 
> Snape as I wrote to Mila, we will never know that for sure.
> 
> There may have been one percent chance to save Barty Sr. Surely you 
> would not argue that it is an absolute fact that he could not be 
> saved?
> 
> My point is that it is possible that Snape robbed him even of that 
> tiny chance. Why? Oh, because he hated Harry that much and takes 
> every possibility to show him that in my opinion.
> 
> JMO,
> 
> Alla

Montavilla47:
Not a contradiction, because you have every right to think that
Snape is simply being a jerk in this moment.

On the other hand, who's to say that Dumbledore didn't have some
magical videocamera that showed Harry  looking for him and 
specifically *asked* Snape to go intercept the boy before he ran off
again.

We're talking about Dumbledore here.  He said that he had watched
Harry more closely that Harry realized...