2xSnape,

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> I've mentioned this before and met with a flood of responses which 
> didn't agree with me.  I always thought that Karkaroff was the one 
> who had left forever, and that Snape was the coward - my canonical 
> reason is this:
> 
> In GoF, Barty Crouch-as-Moody has Harry in his office, and is 
talking 
> about Karkaroff, when Harry says that he thinks that he is the DE 
> working secretly for Voldemort.  Barty Crouch's response:
> "Karkaroff fled tonight when he felt the Dark Mark burn upon his 
> arm.  He betrayed too many fairthful supporters of the Dark Lord to 
> wish to meet them...but I doubt he will get far.  The Dark Lord has 
> ways of tracking his enemies."
> 
> I always felt that this tied in very neatly with the fact that 
> Voldemort says of the one who has left forever "he will be killed 
of course."
> 
> Of course, it could go either way, but it is possible that 
Voldemort 
> thinks Snape is too cowardly, not only to return, but because he is 
> afraid of Dumbledore.  
> 
I'm afraid you're going to get someone disagreeing with you again.  
Karkaroff is definitely the coward; that is why he betrayed all of 
those people, to get himself off.  Harry sees for himself in 
Dumbledore's Pensieve how frightened Karkaroff is when he sees that 
much of his information is useless.  

Snape, as the one who has left Voldemort forever, now has a big 
honking target on him.  Snape is NOT a coward.  Remember Fluffy?  How 
many people do you know would try to get past a three-headed dog 
without knowing the secret of how to do it safely?  Plus he was going 
after a werewolf when he was sixteen, and he followed the trio to the 
Shrieking Shack to protect them from Sirius Black (misguided, sure, 
but still brave) and then he was trying to protect Harry and Hermione 
from the dementors afterward.  We've never seen Snape look afraid of 
anything except Dumbledore's wrath, and that's even supposed to give 
Voldemort the willies.

As for his relationship with Moody, he knows that Moody can see his 
Dark Mark under his sleeve, and that Moody trusts no one.  He doesn't 
want to be seen as dark still, since he's reformed.  OTO, he also 
doesn't want the Slytherins to cease to see him as an authority 
figure, so he's really walking a tightrope.

--Barb

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