Snape's Task/Mission

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No: HPFGUIDX 15890

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> Koinonia, I agree with you that I hadn't considered other 
> possibilities than Snape's returning to spy on Voldemort.  Your 
idea 
> of his becoming Harry as a decoy is superb.  Doreen's idea of a 
> mission to the Dementors also strikes me as necessary and 
plausible.  
>  
> I maintain, however, that JKR has imbued Voldemort witht the power 
to 
> detect all lies, perhaps in order to make situations as we are 
> discussing now not to be trivial in solution.  It is documented in 
> several instances in the canon:  at the end of Philosopher's Stone 
> with Harry; at the beginning of Goblet of Fire with Bryce and, I 
> believe, with Wormtail. What is even more compelling is that
> Voldemort 
> himself asserted this as his power; he didn't simply deduce that 
the 
> others were lying.
> 

Well, we know of one instance when Voldy did *not* detect a lie - 
when he took Snape to be loyal to him while Snape was spying for the 
good side. 
Voldy no doubt has great powers and great insight. In some 
situations, confronting certain people, he (I almost wrote "He"; soon 
I'll be referring to him as "You Know Who") does sense lies and 
evasions. That doesn't mean that in all situations, confronting all 
people, he will always detect lies. 

Naama