Snape the 4th Man?>Re: LV will never trust Snape again

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No: HPFGUIDX 35219

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "sarah28962000" <saramull at o...> wrote:
> Remember in the first book, where Snape is berating 
> Quirrel, about how he needs to decide which side he is on?  

Yeah, so what?

> Well, 
> duh, Voldemort is right there on the back of Quirrel's head.  It
must 
> be pretty obvious which side Snape is on now.

Oops. Oh yeah, that.

Um, well, yeah, V probly won't trust Snape as Snape.  Even 
without that giveaway, Snape would need to explain to V
about his nonaction while V was... erm... indesposed.  Maybe 
Snape could wriggle into the circle as the 4th Man? Is this
why JKR is vague as to who the 4th Man is?

OTOH, if Snape didn't know what Quirrel had in the back of his 
mind, he might claim (to V) that he didn't trust Quirrel enough 
to reveal himself to Quirrel as a DE, because he couldn't be sure 
Q was not himself a double agent working for Ddore.

ACTually, are we sure V went all the way around the circle in 
the graveyard scene? Was Snape in fact there, perhaps 
polyjuiced as somebody else?  V might not have addressed him
openly in the presence of the other DE's because he didn't
fully trust all of them, i.e. he knows at least one DE is a spy? If
Snape was indeed there, he had from the time Harry broke 
off the duel until Ddore summoned him, to get back to Hogwarts.
He might have apperated to the Hogwarts property line, then
hurried to where Ddore summoned him from.

Tex