[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape Returned to LV?

[devika261 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18397

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
 If Snape
 > *did* return to Voldemort (which I personally believe), I think he 
 did
 > it right after he left the hospital wing.


 >I am still remaing firmly on the fence.  If Snape did >go back to 
 >Voldemort, I hope we are told what happened at that >meeting.  I can 
>just picture all those DE's still hanging around, >Voldemort not being 
 >in the best of moods, and in pops Snape.  Personally, >I think V. 
 >would be happy to have a former DE back, especially >one that works at 
 >Hogwarts. Not to mention an expert in potions.  I do >have to wonder 
 >what Snape would have to do in order to prove to V. >that he is still 
 >truly on V's side.  I don't think Voldemort would just >take Snape at 
 >his word.

I think that Snape's going back to Voldemort sounds plausible, but I'm still not entirely convinced.  When Voldemort was talking to all of the DEs, he mentioned 3 in particular, one who was too cowardly to return, one who had left him forever, and one who was his most faithful servant.  We can assume that his most faithful servant was Barty Crouch Jr/Moody.  For the other two, it seems reasonable to say that the one who was too cowardly to return was Karkaroff and the one who was gone forever was Snape, but it's impossible to be sure.  If, however, this assumption is correct, it would have taken a great deal of persuasion on Snape's part to convince Voldemort that he was truly on his side because Voldemort did say that the Death Eater who was gone forever would be killed.  The fact that Snape did return from his mission (he was at the leaving feast at the end of GoF) shows that he may have been sucessful in rejoining the Death Eaters, if in fact that was what his mission was. !
 
Snape seems clever enough to be able to convince the Death Eaters that he was on their side, and he would have been able to explain his initial absence by saying that it is impossible to Disapparate from Hogwarts, so he could not have joined them immediately when the Dark Mark burned on his arm.  I really can't come up with any other explanation for what Dumbledore wanted Snape to do, but that's not to say that there isn't another explanation.
On a slightly related note, I was wondering if anyone had thought of this:  what do you think Snape's relationship to the Malfoys (especially Lucius Malfoy) is?  Remember his reaction when Harry named Malfoy as a death eater in the hospital wing?  I really have no idea what the connection could be, but I think there is one...
:) Devika