Snape's "mind set"

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 44254

Kelly reites;

>>I cannot help but notice that you make the assumption that Snape's DE 
background is well-known... but is it?<<

I would say that the British WW is a very small world and that most peoiple 
who were around at the time paid a LOT of attention to the Nuremburg, sorry, 
Death Eater trials. And, given wizarding lifespans most of the people who 
were around 10-13 years ago are STILL around. After all, the Voldemort "war" 
is the most exciting thing that had happened in the ww in 30 years. It 
affected EVERYBODY.

Besides with the Shytherins swaggering around tasitly proclaiming "Snape is 
one of US, and you know who WE are!" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge...) Even if he 
HADN'T been a DE people would believe he had. As head of Slytherin there is 
no way to distance himself from the association.  

As to Sirius not recognizing the reference to Karkaroff's Dark Mark; I have't 
any easy answers there. Probably a mental lapse on Sirius's part, since HE 
was the one to bring up the point that Snape had been part of the crowd which 
had just about all joined the Dark Side in the first place. Possibly the 
wizarding public wasn't informed that Voldemort's foillowers bore his mark. 
(Although you would think that that is the kind of information that would 
leak.) Given that Sirius had spent 12 years evesdropping on Death Eaters in 
Azkaban I certainly can't account for it. 

But unless the "Snape has already been cleared in this court" remark refers 
to a secret trial (which I suppose it could) I cannot see how there wouldn't 
have at least been a record of his having been formally charged somewhere.

-JOdel