[HPforGrownups] Snape's mission

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 15788

Haggridd wrote:

> Regarding Snape:
> Has anyone considered that the only way for Snape to complete his
> mission would be to use polyjuice potion to disguise himself as Barty
> Crouch, Jr.?  There doesn't seem to be any other reason for the author
> to have kept him alive.

Greeting! Interestingly, we've just been discussing this. Great minds,
eh? Rather than rehash everything, I found you some message numbers, if
you want to go tiptoe thru the archives.

Message 15518 poses this very question. Then, skipping responses that
don't add major stuff to the argument, there's
15584 talking about how easy it is to detect Polyjuice;
15586 addressing the main question, and why I don't think it'll fly, on
a couple of levels;
15591 agreeing with me; and
15594 not.

In fact, I meant to respond to 15594, and haven't gotten around to it.

>  Voldemort can detect all lies.

And you think this because....? He's been fooled at least once, in a big
way, by Snape spying.

>  Snape may not, therefore, represent himself as a double-turncoat.
> Voldemort knows Severus's history; he would be caught out.

Unless he can concoct a plausible story. Voldemort is tolerant of those
who have denied him, it seems, when they have denied him as a ruse to
stay free to continue serving him. If Snape can convince Voldemort that,
whatever Snape was doing, it was to Voldemort's ultimate end, I think
he'll be in.

>  He must find a situation where he would be accepted, and not asked
> any embarassing questions.  The Crouch, Jr. scenario satisfies those
> conditions. None of the Death Eaters knows Crouch, Jr.'s fate.

Wormtail does. In detail.

> Well I hope that I haven't resurrected some theory already thoroughly
> chewed over.

No, no, we're still chewing this one.

--Amanda


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