Snape's Task

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Doreen" <nera at r...> wrote:

> Molly, Arthur, Bill, and *probably Percy Weasley, IMO* will take 
care of any
> problems in the MOM.
> Hagrid and Madam Maxime are setting off to speak to the Giants.


I see Arthur taking care of problems in the MoM, but I see Bill and 
Charlie helping in their areas of expertise.  Charlie works with 
dragons and Bill is in Egypt.  Percy will.....well, who knows?



> 
> The only group left, in my mind, is the Dementors. > 


That doesn't mean it is the only group left.  Voldemort is going to 
open up Azkaban and get the dementors to join him.  He is going to 
recall the banished giants.  "I shall have all my devoted servants 
returned to me, and an army of creatures whom all fear...." Is 
the 'army of creatures' only the dementors and giants?  In my opinion 
we are going to see 'creatures' we haven't seen yet.  Voldemort spent 
many years traveling far and wide in his search for immortality.  I 
believe he has more up his sleeve then just dementors and giants.

  
> Snape is no fool. I do not think that he would attempt to fool 
Voldemort
> with any disguise or weak story of "playing spy for him for twelve 
years,
> rather than looking for him to help him."


I guess it's possible for Snape to go back to V. and get in V's good 
graces.  I think Snape is the one who Voldemort *believes* has left  
forever.  That statement leaves me to believe Voldemort has left an 
opening for this servant to come back.  If anyone can do it, surely 
it would be Snape.  I wouldn't mind seeing Snape working as a spy 
again but I just don't see that happening.  I am going to trust JK to 
make Snape's job very exciting, dangerous, and something none of us 
have thought about yet.


 
> >>>>MY IDEA IS >>>> Snape has some sort of task which involves the 
Dementors
> and those prisoners which are being held there in Azkaban.


I get the impression that Dumbledore knows that Voldemort's most 
faithful followers in Azkaban are going to remain just that:  
faithful to Voldemort.

  
 
> Dumbledore is getting all of his ducks in line. In order to defeat
> Voldemort, the smartest strategy would be to weaken him by first 
attacking
> and defeating Voldemort's allies.... either defeating them or 
rendering them
> powerless or at the very least, less powerful.



I think that is exactly what Dumbledore is doing.  But I think we are 
just touching the tip of the iceberg with the giants and dementors.

  
 
> I am wondering in what capacity Snape is going to approach 
Azkaban....
> Would it be possible for him to trade places with Barty Crouch Jr.? 


I guess I just don't see what Snape could accomplish as Barty Crouch 
Jr.  There would surely be no way that Snape could masquarade as Jr. 
and continue to teach at Hogwarts.  Also, Fudge knows about the fate 
of Barty Crouch Jr.  I think we are glossing over that fact.  Don't 
forget about what Fudge knows.  Dumbledore does not seem very 
trusting of Fudge.  Would Dumbledore take the chance of having Snape 
walk around as Crouch when no one knows what Fudge will do?  It would 
surely get back to Fudge that Jr. was walking around.  Fudge would 
know it couldn't be Jr.  At this point we are not even sure which 
side Fudge is on.


> I love these books ... so many ideas to toss around til book five!!
> Doreen


Me, too!  So many ideas - it seems strange that we are reading the 
same books but each of us see things in a different way.  

Koinonia