[HPforGrownups] Snapes Sudden Move (was Re:Snape and the Malfoys)

[ksnidget at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 42074

I've been thinking about the speculations of why Snape
makes a sudden movement when Lucius is named.

Now Lucius is the first of the Death Eaters named,
and we know from Karkaroff's testimony that for the
most part the who all else was a DE was kept
secret from other DE's.  What if he would have 
jumped no matter whose name came up first.

I wonder if Voldemort making open declarations of
names of DE's when they are all gathered together
is a new thing.  Something he hasn't done in the past.

Something that could complicate the whole Snape
as a spy thing. We do not know how many of the DE's
know he was a DE.  But what he has been doing since
the fall is pretty widely known.  

He may also have been concerned that Voldemort 
named him because he didn't show up.  One thing
to worm your way back in with your fellow DE's when
they do not know you were not there and are not
likely to know you have been missing meetings.  
The spying may not have to do with going back to
Voldemort directly, but getting himself back in close
with other DE's who might assume he's been attending
meetings.  Death Eater's Anonymous meetings are
different from your attendance or lack there of
will be publicly announced meetings.

He may also be concerned that he was named
specifically as someone who should have showed,
but didn't, and now he has a house full of sweet
angelic <cough> kids that all know he was a 
traitor to the cause they and their parents believe
in.

It's enough to make you drink from your own 
personal hip flask.<eg> Who knows what the
Future Death Eaters of the UK would slip in his
drinks if they knew he had been working hard to
bring about Voldemort's downfall.

KSnidget.  


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