What is Snape supposed to do?

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No: HPFGUIDX 15220

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
 
> I haven't read GoF yet but piecing together the snippets from these
> posts, I have a suggestion: perhaps Dumbledore hasn't given Snape a
> specific task YET but is asking him to prepare for something he
> hasn't done in years - leave the physical precincts of Hogswart and
> venture into the outside world again.  In other words, get his
> affairs in order.

I have to say, and I don't want this to sound unplesant, because it's 
not meant to, but why are you reading this list if you haven't read 
GoF yet? I mean, you're reading summaries of chapters you have yet to 
read, you already know everything that's going to happen in the book -
 aren't you afraid that our discussions here are going to adversely 
affect the way you read the book, once you finally get around to it?

I mean, the chapter summaries are like Cliff's Notes - even though 
our fellow listies are good writers, there's no way a summary could 
hope to invoke the same feelings that GoF itself does. And to be 
honest, the book is better :)