If you are prepared, Severus- Question answered?

[Karina Aleksandrova]

No: HPFGUIDX 76352

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "oldone7777" <csalgado at r...> 
wrote:
>   On page 713 GOF Dumbledore asks Snape.  "you know what I must as 
> you to do.If you are ready..if you are prepared." Was that question 
> answered in OOP? 
> 
>   Did Snape return back into the death Eater fold in good graces? 
Or 
> was it under probation? <snip>

Well, in OoP, Dolores Umbridge says to Snape, "I expected better, 
Lucius Malfoy always speaks most highly of you!" It would seem Snape 
is still in good graces with Voldemort, or else why would Lucius, a 
Death-Eater have a good opinion of him? I find it rather strange 
though. Snape didn't apparate to the graveyard at the end of GoF, 
when Voldemort summoned his followers, and so Voldemort should have 
been displeased, was displeased, in fact. (quote: "One, too cowardly 
to return ... he will pay. One, who I believe has left me forever ... 
he will be killed, of course ...")

<snip>
>   was it he helped Dumbeldore bring the Order together? Pg.92 " 
> Thanks to you, Dumbledore was able to recall the Order of the 
> Phoenix about an hour after Voldermort returned" said Sirius."<snip>

No, I think it was Sirius' task. (Dumbledore said in GoF: "Sirius, I 
need you to set off at once. You are to alert Remus Lupin, Arabella 
Figg, Mundungus Fletcher - the old crowd. Lie low at Lupin's for a 
while; I will contact you there.") 
 
~Carina