Snape and the Death Eaters

[Amy Winters]

No: HPFGUIDX 7887

First let me say that I do not have the books, particularly GoF, in 
front of me, so I'm doing this all from memory.  Please feel free to 
correct and fill in gaps<G>.

I do think that Snape is going to be a double agent for Dumbledore 
again - although, I have no idea how he's going to pull it off.  When 
they're in the infirmary at the end of GoF, Dumbledore sends Snape 
off telling him something to the effect of "I'm sorry to make you do 
this, but it has to be done."  At surface glance (I've only read GoF 
twice) it comes across as Snape going back to Voldermort.  And we've 
heard from Dumbledore multiple times that Snape turned to the "good" 
side at great personal risk.  Dumbledore trusts him for a reason - we 
just don't know what that reason is yet.  There's more to this story 
than we know.

I seem to remember that when Voldermore was "introducing" the Death 
Eaters - I came up with more missing than just the three.  The last 
three he talked about was 1) one that was at Hogwarts that had 
already come back to him, 2) one that had been a coward, and 3) one 
that had betrayed him.

Ok...the first one, I was assuming was Barty Crouch, Jr.  Voldermort 
knew he was there and following his orders.  The second one...here's 
where I had a problem.  There's two candidates - Karkaroff (who has 
fled) and Ludovic Bagman.  I'm going with Karkaroff - he's still 
running (but I think Bagman is too).  The third one...the one that 
had betrayed him and will now die for it.  We're all assuming it's 
Snape.  But, we still have Bagman floating around out there.  We know 
he was a death eater and we know he turned other Death Eaters into 
the ministry in order to save himself.  Bagman's betrayal isn't as 
severe as Snapes, but he is still a loose end.

(Bagman wasn't in the cemetery, right?)  Of course, there were quite 
a few Death Eaters that Voldermort didn't "introduce".  I think Harry 
makes the comment that he's outnumbered 30 to 1....that would make 
for 28 DE, not including Voldermort and Wormtail.  They only 
mentioned 9 (I believe).

Thoughts?  Comments?  I'm not sure if you all have discussed this 
before...

Amy