[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Redemption

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No: HPFGUIDX 76057

This Snape DE status is really bugging me.
If we take it that Snape is the one "who has left me forever"
Voldemort's statement that "he will be killed" seems to imply that Snape 
should be on all DE's hit list.

> 
> Quote:
> "One too cowardly to return...he will pay.  One, who I believe has
> left me forever...he will be killed of course...and one who remains
> my most faithful servant, and who has already reentered my service.


How can Snape be the one who has left him forever, and "will be killed" 
and at the same time be *Lucius Malfoy's lapdog*? If Malfoy snr is a 
faithfull DE he surely should have killed Snape as a traitor by now. So 
whats going on? Is this JKR misleading us yet again? Either Snape has 
*not* compromised his DE position with LV, but has "exemption" from 
appearing when called by the dark mark, so as not to compromise his 
position as spy in Dumbledore's inner circle, or Lucius Malfoy has 
*other plans* and is a bit of a traitor on the quiet himself.
Not that I suspect LM of being *good*, you understand. I just suspect he 
may have ideas of understudying Voldemort for the purpose of usurping 
the Dark Lord postion in the future.

Your thoughts welcomed

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