Scarlet Woman/ Snape and Quirrellmort

[Rita]

No: HPFGUIDX 45160

 I'm sorry to come up with something completely alien to the discussions
going on but reading one of the posts I remember that, when I came across it
in GoF, I couldn't understand the expression 'Scarlet Woman'. I got the
impression it was some kind of joke or pun, but to understand the
implication of that definition I need your 'assistance' as English
mother-tongues. Thank you to anyone who will help.!


And now something probably more to the point and that could fit in the MAGIC
DISHWASHER discussion. 
As a former DE and one with the Dark Mark burned into himself, which is a
connection to LV, Snape shouldn't have felt LV presence at Hogwarts,
especially when dealing with Quirrell? What's more, during that year LV was
getting stronger, even if not much, by drinking unicorn blood, shouldn't the
Dark Mark have shown this as it does later in GoF ( I can't recall if it was
Snape or Karkaroff who said that the Mark had been getting clearer every
day)? AFAIR, there's nothing in canon to support this, but it adds to the 
conspiracy theory', Snape knew but did nothing about it because he was
working on a far more ambitious plan.

OTOH, LV should be aware, if not completely sure, of on which side Snape is
because he was there when Snape threatened and tried to stop Quirrell. If he
trusted him he could have  revealed himself to his old follower and ask him
to help getting the Stone. But it seems it never happened, so Snape needs to
be a really good actor if he wants LV to accept him back with complete trust
now that he's back. I don't like the idea of LV being fooled so easily, I
have too much respect for his intelligence and cunning. Dumbledore's big
plan is very subtle so LV could very well not see that his action are more
the result of someone else's will than his own. But unless he comes up with
a very good story I can't see how LV will believe to the return of 'poor,
misguided by Good Snape'.


One final though, I like very much MAGIC DISHWASHER but I feel it's way too
complex for children and , even though the books are not exclusively aimed
at them still, JKR knows that a big part of her readers are quite young (
not for long, anyway, if she waits a little more to publish  book 5 - may it
be part of her plan? To wait till everyone is old enough to appreciate the
MAGIC DISHWASHER?). And wouldn't it be horrible to discover that our hero
has been 'used' and raised with almost the sole purpose of giving his blood
to the 'right cause'? If i were Harry I would feel cheated, and after 10
years deprived of love to find finally people who cares for me and then
discover that they did because they 'needed' me would be devastating.
Everything I had come to believe in and everyone I trusted and loved would
seem false and hollow, just empty lies. Isn't it something terrible to give
children?

R.