So, what DID Snape do at the end of GoF?

[Tom Wall]

No: HPFGUIDX 55667

Darrin wrote:

Here's a non-obvious answer. 
He made contact, not with V-Mort, 
not with Lucius, not with Karakoff 
and not with his second cousin, 
Vlad Dracula.

But with Narcissa Malfoy. I have 
long liked the idea of the weak 
link in the Malfoy family -- as 
far as not being as evil as the 
rest -- is Narcissa. And I like 
the idea of Snape and Narcissa once 
being an item.

I reply:
Oooh, deliciously disgusting. 


Darrin wrote:
Any other theories? The idea of 
him re-spying is just so... 
obvious that I instinctively rail 
against it.

I reply:
Well, I can't take credit for this, because I read it on 
mugglenet.com last night and it struck me as something that I hadn't 
heard before. But, I'll be fair and admit that it could have been 
posted here previously. I'm just not aware of it, if it has been.

Anyways:
"It doesn't mention in GoF that Voldemort even knows that Barty 
Crouch Jr. is dead, maybe Snape will take the polyjuice potion and 
impersonate Crouch Jr."
--submitted by `The #1 HP fan' on www.mugglenet.com

This strikes me as very, very possible, especially since we don't 
really know what happens to people who suffer from the Kiss of 
Death, except that the resulting state is `worse than death,' and 
that the person's soul is sucked out of the body. But JKR 
conveniently never tells us if the body actually dies from the 
process. Perhaps the body is kept alive in some kind of weird limbo 
state or something, and in that case, Snape will have an endless 
supply of hairs and other body parts to use in a polyjuice potion. 
Now, whether or not Snape could effectively pull this off, however, 
is a totally different discussion.

And the other thing is: we really *aren't* told that Voldemort knows 
about this happening to Crouch, Jr.. And we have no canon to suggest 
that Voldemort has a magical way of knowing about BCJ's state of 
being - it appears to me that he got most of his information from 
Wormtail and BCJ as well.  All the same, it is one of the more 
interesting ideas that I've read... and our being in the dark on 
what the Kiss of Death does to the body itself leaves interesting 
possibilities.

Incidentally, I completely agree with you on Snape respying `as 
Snape' – that seems like the lamest possible idea, IMHO, simply 
because this is what seems like the most obvious course of action 
for Snape to take.

-Tom