The one who has left me forever...

[amy_marblefeet <amy_marblefeet@yahoo.co.uk>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49277

I'm new here so I am not sure if this has been discussed before.  
When I was re-reading GoF for the seventh time I came across this 
curious comment by Mr Weasly in ch. 9 The Dark Mark (pg 128).

He says to Hermione "...it was only death eaters who ever knew how to 
conjure it.  I'd be very surprised if the person who did it hadn't 
been a Death Eater once, even if they're not now..."

It is made quite clear all through the four books that the Weasly's 
in particular do not believe many of the redemption, devil-made-me-do-
it stories told by ex-death eaters trying to save their own skin, 
especially the Malfoys.  If this is true why would Arthur even 
consider that at least one of them was not a death eater now?

Could he be talking about Severus Snape?  If he is not, could 
Voldemort have been talking about someone else in the graveyard scene?

I await your comments.

Amy
(who waits patiently for book five and for Snapes past to turn around 
and bite him on the ass, as pasts tend to do)