Dorcas Meadows: who was she? (was snape's love)

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 77011

> Remi and Atropos posted about the women Snape could have loved.
> Another possiblity is the mysterious Dorcas Meadows--a woman in the 
> order who was killed by Voldemort personally (It must mean that she 
> was pretty important) What does anybody think? Barbara


Dorcas must have been very important to have been killed by LV 
himself.  LV simply does not do his own dirty work, why should he 
when he was almost at the top of his power and had legions of loyal 
DE's to do it for him.  And they did it so well too.  The only other 
people LV gave the personal touch to were Lily and James Potter in 
his attempt to get at Harry, and the reason for that was because LV 
had learned this baby could quite possibly be the only human in the 
universe who could kill him! I wouldn't trust that execution to 
anyone else either.

Another thought I had about Dorcas was the whole chapter she was 
mentioned in seemed very contrived. The whole business with Molly 
Weasely's Woes was devastating yes, but obvious, right?  After all 
Molly is a mother and the death of her children is of course her 
greatest fear.  After rereading the chapter again I began to think it 
was written to cover the revelation of some other piece of important 
information that JKR is feeding to us in preparation for later. The 
only new pieces of information were the introduction of the original 
members of the Order Mad Eye Moody showed Harry in the photo. And of 
that just about everyone else has a description of death, all except 
Dorcus.  

One last thought, how does Moody know Dorcas was killed personally by 
LV?  There has to have been a witness.  Who?

So who was Dorcas Meadows?? And what did she represent or know? any 
thoughts.
Mandy