LV will never trust Snape again

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 35221

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "sarah28962000" <saramull at o...> wrote:
> I've only been reading along for a week now, so maybe this has been 
> addressed somewhere in the past 35,000 posts,

Yeah, we talk about this every two weeks. And we still haven't come up 
with a completely satisfying answer. Or... actually it's more 
complicated that that. Most of us agree on an answer, it's just how to 
get there.

>but I don't think 
> Voldemort has any chance of trusting Snape enough to make him a 
> useful spy. 

Now, here's where the rub is. We can't just conclude. Therefore, he 
won't be going back to Voldemort to spy again. That'd be easy, but it 
won't work.

You see, Snape has to be doing something interesting. His mission 
can't be to go through Percy's desk at the Ministry of Magic, or to 
deliver a letter to Nicholas Flamel. Both tasks could, under certain 
circumstances be dangerous, but they're not interesting. If Snape 
isn't doing what JKR has Harry guess, it's got to be just as 
intersting and dangerous a prospect as being a spy. And really, 
no-one's come up with something, and when you think about it, how 
could there be something? (Though /me tolerantly hails the "Snape is 
off contacting his vampire brethren".) No, Snape must go back to 
Voldemort. And our problem is to get him there safely. 

 Remember in the first book, where Snape is berating 
> Quirrel, about how he needs to decide which side he is on?  Well, 
> duh, Voldemort is right there on the back of Quirrel's head.  It 
must 
> be pretty obvious which side Snape is on now. 

Remember, that Snape didn't even know Quirrel was serving Voldemort. 
Talk of "sides" in that situation isn't the same as talk of "sides" in 
the Voldemort vs. the World battle. 

> If Voldemort thought 
> there was any lingering loyalty in Snape why wouldn't he have 
Quirrel 
> whip off the turban and reveal himself and get Snape to help him get 
> the stone? or even posess Snape instead? 

Voldemort is suspicious of Snape, just as of all the other 
death-eaters. Lucius Malfoy is back at the head of the DE gang, but 
what would you think his reaction to Voldie on the back of Quirrel's 
head might be. Don't you think oh-so-loyal Malfoy would have disposed 
of Quirdemort if possible? 

>There's also the matter of 
> Snape trying so hard to save Harry's life, when everyone knows he 
> hates Harry (or at least Quirrel knows, and I assume V. knows what 
> Quirrel knows).  All Snape had to do was look in the other direction 
> & Harry would be dead, & no one would be the wiser, and instead, 
> Snape volunteers to referee the next match to protect Harry!!  What 
> self-respecting death-eater wouldn't take a bitter satisfaction in 
> letting the little squirt die, even if he didn't think there was any 
> chance of V. coming back.

Why? Voldemort is totally gone, and the DEs are making their ways in 
life as best as they can. If, in this career, preserving Harry is 
important to Snape's job, how can Voldie complain? Well, he can 
complain, but the other DEs were no worse. With DEs at the ministry, 
some of them must have been involved in clamping down on Voldie's 
remaining followers etc. And, of course, Avery.... Well, that's not 
canon, so I won't get into that. Here.

Eileen