[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's Task

[john kusalavage]

No: HPFGUIDX 15801

Please see what I have said concerning this matter in
my post "Snape's Mission".  I have a different
perspective on it from you. Thanks.

Haggridd 
--- zora_djevojka at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> I wrote:
> 
>  > I've been thinking about the comments many list
> members made on the
>  > exact nature of the Snape's task. I believe
> [primarily for the
>  > reasons Amanda and Koinonia gave] that he
> returned to Voldemort as
>  > himself, and that he placed  himself in some
> danger by doing so.
> 
> 
> Magda wrote:
> 
> >I think that's an understatement; he's been close
> to Dumbledore for
> >twelve years, V. obviously knows he's gone and
> declares he must be
> >killed.  There are just too many people around who
> know where he's
> >been.  Going back to V. means he's dragon kibble in
> very short order.
> >
> >And look at it from V's point of view.  He's got to
> make an example
> >of somebody so the other DE's get the message. 
> What better way to do
> >it than by torturing Snape?
> 
> In the second part of my original post I tried to
> convey an idea [but 
> obviously not very well, sorry] that Snape was in
> fact still a Voldemort's 
> agent when he originally became a spy for Dumbledore
> [what is the term for 
> that-- a double/triple agent??]. So, even if he did
> have a true  change of 
> heart before Voldemort's downfall [and warned
> Dumbledore about the Potters, 
> for instance], he could still return to the DE
> assembly and say something 
> like: "Master, our plan worked, the trusting old
> fool has taken me into his 
> confidence."
> That could explain, IMVHO,  why Dumbledore vouched
> for Snape during the 
> trials, and why Voldemort interprets Snape's absence
> as merely cowardice.
> Granted, Snape still has some explaining to do about
> the Philosopher's 
> Stone incident and a couple Cruciatus curses will
> probably be headed his way.
> 
> Hopefully I've managed to make my thoughts
> intelligible this time :)
> 
> Vlatka
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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