Character Sketch: Severus Snape

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> (1) How does Snape really feel about Igor Karkaroff?  He seems to 
pity him,
> but he is also angry at him (he did betray him in the courtroom – 
did Snape
> know this?) .

I think another element of this question is how does Karkaroff feal 
about Snape? He's in the courtroom, having just given Snape over to 
the authorities, and Dumbledore stands up and really takes the wind 
out of his sails by announcing that Snape was a spy for the good guys. 
You'd think this would at the very least make him a little wary of 
Snape, and at the most make him LOATHE him (the Death Eaters seem the 
type to hate a traitor over and above anyone else). And yet he openly 
approaches him with the news that his scar (brand?) is getting darker. 
Perhaps he sees some sort of camaraderie in that they've both fled 
from the Death Eaters and are frightened to see V come back? I just 
can't figure out why he'd just so blindly accept him.
-Mike