Is Snape going to be Potions prof next year?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner" 

> Snape is most likely the one V. believes has left him forever.  
However,
> note that V. says "I believe has left me," not simply "who has left 
me".
> That "I believe" is quite significant, because it shows that V. is 
not
> actually *certain* that Snape has left him forever, only that it 
appears to
> him that this is most likely the case.  As such, there is still 
room for
> Snape, if he is quick-thinking enough to come up with a really 
super alibi,
> to come back.  And given Snape's airtight reputation in front of 
everyone at
> Hogwarts as a nasty, spiteful, Gryffindor-hating, Slytherin-
favouring, Harry
> Potter-persecuting type, I really don't think it would be 
impossible for him
> to work his way back into the DE's.

Hmmm . . . I hadn't thought of this before. I guess I'd always taken 
Voldemort's assertion that he can tell when one of his servants is 
lying to be true -- but perhaps not. 

I think it would be *awfully* difficult for Snape to work his way 
back into the Death Eater ranks. He has been working for Dumbledore 
all this time (probably because he couldn't get work anywhere else, 
though other "former" Death Eaters have even gone to work for the 
Ministry). I think that even if Voldemort does let him in, it will be 
a very painful experience. We saw how cruel he was toward Wormtail.

But here's a question. 

Is Snape going to be Potions professor next year? If he's with 
Voldemort, he can't work for Dumbledore -- or would Voldemort try and 
plant Snape at Hogwarts like he planted "Moody," to keep an eye on 
Harry and track his movements, when in fact Snape would actually be 
protecting Harry along with Dumbledore.

I don't know. I think Dumbledore is assuming a lot if he has in fact 
asked Snape to return to the Death Eaters. Voldemort is many things, 
but I don't think a foot is one of them.

Stacy