TBAY: Saboteur!Snape's Next Mission(WAS Assassin!Snape's next Victim)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 46852

The oak doors swing wide once again at the TBAY saloon, 
otherwise known as The Pink Flamingo Bar,  as if blown open by 
a gust of wind. The full moon rides out from the clouds above the 
storm-wracked bay just long enough to cast a giant shadow into 
the room. From far away  comes a drawn out shuddering howl, 
and the faint churning of a magical kitchen appliance.  A cloaked 
figure enters--

Everyone relaxes as they realize it's only Pippin. Well, almost 
everyone. Cindy looks nervous. Pippin has never shown a proper 
amount of respect for the big paddle. Pippin ignores her for the 
moment and addresses herself to George, stroking his hair and 
sliding a slender hand over the ruffled silk shirt. 

"I think, actually I'm going to go with George on this one."

"You are?" George looks immensely flattered. Pippin has never 
paid the slightest attention to him before. But he seems  a little 
uneasy as her gaze settles on his throat. 

"Oh, yes. Even though I think Snape is a part-vampire, like me, 
and bangs just by existing.

"And you know why? Because, if Snape's errand was at all 
*bangy*, Rowling would have found a way to show it to us. She 
wouldn't want us to hear about it second-hand. Harry's right,  for 
once. Snape went to offer his services as a spy to Voldemort and 
was accepted, after a crucio or two. Not terribly bangy, seeing as 
how we've already been treated to a first hand account of how it 
feels. "

"Accepted!" Cindy says indignantly.  "Just like that? You don't 
think Voldemort's going to want any *proof*?"

Reluctantly, Pippin tears herself from George and turns back to 
the others.

"Oh, he'll want proof. But he hasn't told Snape yet what he's 
going to ask of him. Oh, no. Snape is having  to sweat it out, just 
like *we* are.

"The bang is coming though. Snape will be asked to prove his 
loyalty..soon. Karkaroff will be captured. MacNair will get to kill 
him in some nasty, messy and, er, interesting way. Snape will 
have to watch, helpless, while his old pal (lover?) Karkaroff 
screams and begs him to help, and Harry gets to see it all via 
Scar-o-Vison. 

"The same terrible fate will come to Snape...unless, of course, 
he can convince Voldemort where his loyalties lie.

"Then comes the tie-in with the Dementors. Dumbledore has 
said that Voldemort will be able to give them more scope for their 
powers and their pleasures. Sure, when he's taken over. But 
what has he got now that can compare with the live-in snack bar 
they've got at Azkaban?   Why should the D-men think Voldemort 
can deliver, that he's stronger than the Ministry? Why indeed, 
unless he delivers to them the one thing that the Ministry has so 
far failed to provide...their lawful prey, the one prisoner who got 
away.

"Snape is going after Sirius."

Pippin
wrapping her cloak about her and slipping off into the night



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