[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape at Rebirth party?

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 20004

Not responding to anyone in particular, but on the whole "was Snape
there" question. I've not been following this completely, so I'm sorry
if this was pointed out before:

When Snape confronts Fudge, showing him the Dark Mark and revealing its
meaning, he [Snape] seems to be driven by the sort of frustrated need to
make another see reason that has other characters in other works shaking
people by the shoulders and yelling in their face. What he says and does
is not calculated and thought-out so much as impassioned. He's using the
best and strongest he's got to convince Fudge, to the point of ignoring
that he's saying this in front of Molly Weasley, another Weasley son,
and three students he hates.

Fudge's excuse for not believing Voldemort has returned is that it is
Harry's word, and Harry's grasp on reality has been publicly questioned.
Surely if Snape had been at the rebirthing, his best and strongest to
convince Fudge would be to corroborate Harry, to say, "I saw him, too"?
But he did not say this. This indicates to me, at least, that Snape did
*not* go, he is one of the two missing ones (coward/deserter) [although
I am still chilled by how easily *he* could be the faithful servant,
too], and the best proof he could give of Voldemort's return is the
renewed Mark, not his assertion of having seen him as well.

--Amanda