GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 182163


> 
> Alla:
> 
> OR do ONE step, if you really want to help.
> 
> Really simple one - **give Harry the password**
> 

Pippin:
Um, no, because then Harry has to use the password, which is another
step. Fastest will be for Snape to use the password himself. But then
Harry will be at the bottom of a staircase which is rotating in the
wrong direction. Some LOON is bound to correct me if I am wrong, but I
don't recall any canon that it's possible to run the stairs, or that
they can operate in both directions at once.  Harry would still have 
had to wait at the bottom of the stairs until Dumbledore came down,
and no time would have been saved. 

In any case the whole point is moot, because Crouch says, under
veritaserum, that he did the murder before Harry ever arrived at
Dumbledore's office. Here's the canon:

"You killed your father," Dumbledore said, in the same soft voice.
"What did you do with the body?"

"Carried it into the forest. Covered it with the Invisibility Cloak. I
had the map with me. I watched Potter run into the castle. He met
Snape. Dumbledore joined them. I watched Potter bring Dumbledore out 
of the castle. I walked out of the forest, doubled around behind them,
went to meet them. I told Dumbledore Snape had told me where to come."

--GoF ch 35

As someone said, canon really ought to have resolved this point, and
it does.

Pippin