Snape and the Lucius (forget the Potters)

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47552

Jack wrote:

>In GoF, Voldie summons the Deatheaters, and Lucius is there.  He

>certainly must notice that Snape isn't.  Voldie states that of the

>ones that are missing, two are at Hogwarts:  one is coward (Kakarov);

>one is lost forever and must die (Snape).  If Snape was maintaining a

>front for Lucius, I wonder what Lucius is thinking now?

Actually, Voldemort only stated that his *faithful* servant is at Hogwarts. 
Lucius would probably have assumed that he was speaking of Snape. The 
identies of the other two he may have no idea of. 

At that point. 

By the time Voldemort turns them loose the news of Karkaroff's fight will be 
out. The capture and Kissing of Barty Crouch Jr will probably be hush-hush 
information, (shake's the public's confidence in the security of Azkaban, 
don't you know...) so it might be a day or so before he is able to get that 
little tidbit out of Fudge. All in all it may be a few days before Lucius has 
all the apparant pieces of the puzzle. By the time Draco gets home from Hogwar
ts he is probably going to find himself facing an inquisition from his father 
over just what the hell went on at school this past year.

And then Snape may find himself with some hard questions to answer.

Covering his tracks to Lucius is a whole different situation from covering 
them to Voldemort, and covering them to the Slytherin students next year 
(should he live so long, which I imagine will be the case) is even smpler. 

In Lucius's case, he can easily invoke his own long-standing feud with the 
Marauders -- which Peter unquestionably *was* and play the ancient 
enemies/rivals card, do the "I blew it --but how was I to know?" number over 
Quirrell, and give whatever story about circumstances being against him for 
not being able to show up when called.

If he is clever enough he may be able to interject some degree of uncertainly 
into Lucius's reading of events. Possibly enough to have Lucius play the 
"Voice of Reason" to his Master about allowing Snape a bit more rope to hang 
himself with.

-JOdel