GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look/ Snape and Harry and Gargoyles

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 182171

Carol earlier:
<snip> Snape is trying to find out what's going on. Meantime, no point
in sending him up to Dumbledore when DD is coming down anyway. Exactly
how he can come down faster if Harry goes up to him, I don't
understand. He still has the same number of steps to climb down.

Carol again:
Erm, ride down, I mean. And as Pippin has pointed out, Harry could not
go up a down staircase. So it makes sense to do exactly what Snape is
doing, detain Harry until the staircase, like a down escalator,
arrives at the bottom step. (Thanks, Pippin!)
>
Carol earlier:
> The two-minute delay (which really wasn't a delay since DD probably
took that long to walk down the stairs) made no difference. Mr. Crouch
was *canonically* already dead. <snip>

Carol again: 
Ride down, I mean, again. I don't know how long it takes to ride the
moving stairs from DD's office to the seventh floor, but probably
about the same time as it took to hold that little conversation
(which, BTW, gave no indication that Barty Crouch was in danger
because Harry didn't know that himself. Barty being in the forest and
wanting to talk to DD is not an emergency, even if he's ill and
behaving oddly, and Snape could, indeed, have handled that matter
himself had DD been absent and Barty Jr. not been involved.)

Carol, who for some reason has problems with the shift key on this
keyboard, which is why "Snape" and other names keep showing up in her
posts without capitals!