Snape and the Death Eaters

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No: HPFGUIDX 7901

I apologise if the following has already been reported on this list 
but I don't think it has;

Back in October/November one of the posters on Jenna's UHPFC board 
attended a reading that JKR did in Vancouver.She reported that 
afterwards there was a Q&A session, during which JKR was asked 
straight out who the three "missing" Death Eaters were.JKR gave a 
reply which apparently made it obvious that the faithful servant was 
Barty, the coward was Karkaroff - and the one who had left forever 
and who would be killed was Snape.

At this point, a groan of dismay swept over the audience at the 
thought of Snape dying (obviously there was a big Snape-fan 
contingent in that night). JKR looked very taken aback at this 
reaction and promptly said "Oh, you don't have to worry about Snape - 
he's tough." As a Snape fan myself, I hope this was an indication 
that he is going to make it through to the end of Book 7 in one 
piece, although I have no idea what he will be doing in the meantime.

Other snippets from the same talk were that it is very significant 
that James's animagus form was a stag (stags apparently having a 
mythological enmity with snakes) and that registered animagi at least 
do not pick what form they take when they transform (I realise that 
that snippet raises more questions but I have no more on the point).

I wonder if Bagman will turn out thoroughly bad in the end and 
whether he will be revealed to have had something to do with the 
attack on the Longbottoms, since as far as I remember Dumbledore did 
make a bit of a point of saying that given their mental state 
afterwards, neither of Neville's parents was up to much as witnesses.

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy Winters" <amy at w...> wrote:
> 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