LOLLIPOPS strikes back! & Timeline

[dicentra_spectabilis_alba]

No: HPFGUIDX 34854

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ftah3" <ftah3 at y...> wrote:

> Right, I'm now going to stop and recognize that one possiblity is 
> that Voldy doesn't know the extent of Snape's betrayal.  For some 
> reason, I just want to say fie on that.  I think that Voldy views 
> Snape as a little fish because at least in the past he *was* a little 
> fish.  

How do we know he was a little fish?  It seems to me that you don't
get one of those tattoos by being a little fish.  Voldie has lots of
supporters beyond his circle--I'm guessing only his favorites carry
the Dark Mark.

And if it hasn't come 
> up because it's a big secret and Dumbledore et al. didn't want to let 
> it out in case Voldy came back or Snape was called upon again to do 
> some spying, why on earth *didn't* Snape respond to the dark mark 
> call at the end of GoF?  If he *didn't* want the Death Eaters/Voldy 
> to clue in that he was firmly entwined, either by sensibility or by 
> having perpetrated worse betrayal in the past, with the Good Guys, he 
> should have gone, imho.

Voldemort issued the call while everyone at Hogwarts was in the
Quidditch stadium, waiting for Harry et al. to come out of the maze. 
Snape couldn't just Disapparate (physically impossible) nor could he
run off Hogwarts grounds without being noticed.  Maybe he was waiting
for orders from Dumbledore.  It wouldn't be hard for him to go back to
Voldie and say that he couldn't return at that exact moment because it
would compromise his position at the school, something Voldie would no
doubt want to preserve (assuming Snape is pretending to spy for Voldie).  
>  
> > As for the post GoF world, Snape's mission is to return to 
> Voldemort 
> > as Dumbledore's spy and pretend to finish the job of killing 
> Harry.  
> > This explains the long look Snape gives Harry at the end of GoF.  

I won't be surprised if much of the action in OoP hangs off what this
look means.  Me, it gives the heebie jeebies.  Harry didn't know how
to interpret it at the time, but I bet he finds out and wishes he hadn't.

--Dicentra, trying not to pee her pants in anticipation of OoP