Snape and Redemption (was: JKR's best interview)

[Shirley]

No: HPFGUIDX 75667

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "princesspeaette" 
<princesspeaette at y...> wrote:
> 
> > "John, C"
> > (quoting from interview)
> > 
>  We also know from Book 4 that Voldemort
> > knows that Snape isn't coming back and he's pissed off about it.  
> It makes> me think that Snape's name is probably second on 
> Voldemort's "People to Kill> when I come into Power List" right 
under 
> Harry's.
> 
> 
[[snip]]
>  
> > So, could you imagine what was going through Snape's
> > mind during say Book 1 when he was trying to save Harry from 
> Quirrell's> broom jinx?  [[snip, again]]
> >
> Margaret replied:
> Yes, but Snape was the only one who suspected Quirrel of being in 
> league with LV, so the other teacher's probably needed a bit of 
time 
> to figure out what was going on.  Snape was already keeping a close 
> eye on Quirrell by that point.  [[snip]]

me (shirley):
Three thoughts/questions that reading this exchange just made me 
think of.... (and my apologies if these have been covered in previous 
posts; I only joined about a week ago):

First, do we really *know* that it's Snape that LV is talking about 
in the circle of DEs toward the end of Book 4?  I know that I figured 
that it was Snape who was lost forever (or however he worded it) as a 
Death Eater, but has that ever been confirmed?

Second, and this may be trickier, since Snape was the only one who 
suspected Quirrel of being in league with LV in Book 1, is that how 
LV knows that Snape is no longer with him (LV)?  Does he know it 
because he was sitting (for lack of a better way to word it) on the 
back of Quirrel's head the whole time, listening to Snape trying to 
prevent Quirrel from getting to the stone?

Third, I always thought that Snape, the spy, was still showing up at 
LV's lair/hideout as himself - still a loyal DE - and using 
Occlumency to keep LV from seeing that he was a spy.  However, (this 
thought struck me as I was typing the second point above) if LV knows 
that Snape is no longer on his side, then is Snape spying in another 
form (Animagus, invisibility cloak, something??), and what form is 
it?  Whoa, I've just boggled my own mind!  ;-)  Does anyone have 
thoughts on this?

Thanks for letting me ramble.  I must get back to work for now....

Shirley