[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape at rebirthing?

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No: HPFGUIDX 19853


--- Amy Z <aiz24 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Barbara wrote:
> 
> > Although Voldemort does not identify all Death
> Eaters
> > present, he does a good job of identifying those
> who
> > are absent:
> > <snip>
> > If Snape were at the graveyard, he wouldn't be
> alive
> > at the end of the book.  It is clear that
> Voldemort
> > recognizes each person there, even if he does not
> > address each of them by name.  Unless Snape were
> using
> > Polyjuice Potion, there would be no chance of his
> > impersonating one of the other Death Eaters and
> > witnessing Harry's duel with Voldemort.
> 
> Good point.  Snape might not be the DE "who I
> believe has left me 
> forever" (though again, if I had to put money on it
> I'd say he is), 
> but if he is one of the others there, why all the
> hoopla about "my 
> most faithful servant" and Voldemort's excitement at
> learning he has a 
> man inside Hogwarts?  If Snape were still playing
> the double agent all 
> these years, V would have thought he already had a
> DE at Hogwarts, 
> namely Snape.
> 
> Personally, I think Snape's flinch may just be from
> his deep-rooted 
> sense, going back to his DE days, that DEs must not
> be named.  And I 
> think he's also flinching at the thought that Harry
> may name him (not 
> as someone who was there, but as an associate--who
> knows what V might 
> have said?).  Snape is prepared to come out of the
> closet as an ex-DE, 
> and Fudge, Dumbledore, and presumably McGonagall
> already know, but 
> Harry doesn't (so Snape thinks, anyway) and it's got
> to be hard to 
> have this most nasty of secrets dragged out in the
> open.  Other 
> possibilities abound . . . is it the mention of
> Malfoy that shakes 
> him?  etc.
> 
> Amy Z
> 
Well I agree. My guess is that Snape wasn't among the
DE at the rebirthing. And he's the one who could have
left Voldemort forever, even though JKR wants us to
have doubts about that.
On the one hand, we could believe Snape flinched
because he was there with the DE and he's afraid Harry
could name him too. On the other hand, he might just
be surprised that Harry can name the death-eaters.
It's the same when Harry wants to see Dumbledore and
tell him he's seen Crouch in the Forest. It looks like
Snape wants to prevent Harry from seing Dumbledore,
and from finding out what Crouch has to say. But maybe
he's just fed up with Harry always straying in the
corridors.
Lisa.
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