GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 182149

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Carol adds:
> <SNIP>
> Not to mention that Snape is extremely concerned with Dumbledore's
> trust of him in this book ("Dumbledore trusts me!"), and if Snape were
> to prevent or hinder Harry in something so important, Dumbledore would
> be seriously displeased.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> My cut and paste skills are in dire need of improvement apparently, so 
> here ya go, two posts instead of one, LOLOL.
> 
> Just wanted to be clear that I am not saying that Snape was trying to 
> PREVENT Harry on purpose after DH, just as I am not saying that he is 
> trying to help Harry.
> 
> I am saying that the ONLY thing that Snape was doing is enjoying 
> himself and the small possibility, maybe that Barty could have been 
> saved was an unexpected effect OF his torment of Harry. There are so 
> many unexpected effects in the books after all.

Montavilla47:
You know what this is making me wonder?  Why the heck it takes
a password to get into the Headmaster's office in the first place.

The whole reason I brought up that "magic videocamera" idea in
the first place is because Snape's appearance is so providential.  That's
why it seems likely to me that Dumbledore asked him to go detain
Harry for a few minutes.

If Snape had not been there, Harry would have run off to the 
staff room (as others have pointed out) and Barty, Sr. would be even
deader than he was... or something.

Or if it was Neville running up to the office to tell Dumbledore that
Hannah Abbott has just been eaten by the giant squid, then what?  
He's out of luck because he doesn't have the password?  

Surely, surely, there's some way for Dumbledore to be alerted when
a student comes running up to his door.  The gargoyles were 
smart enough not to let Umbridge in, after all.  They must know 
something.  

I think you should reserve your wrath for those gargoyles.  They 
were a lot less helpful than Snape. :)