[HP4GU-FAQ] Re: Assassin!Snape for HA

[Catherine Coleman]

In message <1e4.a375056.2c0e5c72 at aol.com>, eloiseherisson at aol.com writes
>Hi and welcome,  Phyllis, Melody, Derannimer, Abigail (did I miss
>anyone? I'm
>bound to have missed someone, so welcome to you, too and forgive my
>general
>scattiness.)
>

Ditto - and including Melody and Gail.  Welcome!

>
>
>Now, Phyllis:
>
>> While it's definitely open to interpretation, I've always thought of
>> the one who is "too cowardly to return" as Karkaroff and the "one who
>> I believe has left me forever" as Snape.  Snape just doesn't fit the
>> description of a coward, IMHO.
>>
>
>What? Canon discussion on FAQ? Phyllis, did you know we have a whole
>list
>devoted to just that? ;-)
>
>But now that you mention it, why not Snape? This is Voldmort's opinion,
>remember. He has made the odd mistake before now. <g> Trusting Snape
>in the first
>place, for instance. No. I think it could be a good twist, that, Voldemort
>thinking that Snape's a coward and won't answer the DM and then his
>turning up on
>the doorstep (offering him a CHOP, of course).
>
>~Eloise

The number of times I postulated that the coward was Snape on the main 
list and got shot down!  (Going back a couple of years now, this is - I 
may have had more support more recently).

I think it would be a good twist as well - and I've never forgotten that 
BCJ says that Karkaroff will be tracked down and dealt with and that he 
had betrayed too many of his fellow Death Eaters to be welcomed back 
into the fold.  Neither of them make reference to any betrayal on 
Snape's part, and I always wondered whether BCJ's real animosity towards 
Snape was because he was another of the DEs which went free.

Uh oh, just realised I'm making an on topic post on the wrong list! 
Never mind.

Catherine