Snape as past/future spy

[melclaros <melclaros@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50245

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr <annemehr at y...>" 
<annemehr at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Atherton" 
<suzloua at h...> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes, so did I, and I still think so.  What's really EATING at me 
> though, is that there's no indication at all that any of it has 
> registered with Harry 

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 I have to conclude that Harry did not connect the "DE who 
> has left me forever" with Snape at all, but I sure wish I knew that 
he had at least repeated the line to Dumbledore who would have 
understood it!  I want to see how Snape would take it if Harry warned 
him about Voldemort's intentions.  


It took me a couple of readings to really get this as well. It hit me 
when Harry tells "Moody" that there is a Death Eater at HW and is 
told that, no, it's not Karkaroff because Karkaroff has run away (DE 
no 1)--then is immediately set right my "Moody" himself on the 
identity of the real Death Eater at Hogwarts (DE no.2.). He HAD to be 
thinking somewhere along the line "who's the last one?" If it didn't 
occur to him then it HAD to--absolutey HAD to have hit him like a ton 
of bricks when Snape revealed his Dark Mark. Come on, they kid 
remembered everything else, he can't have forgotten that one little 
detail--V threatening to kill right in front of you would certainly 
leave some sort of impression, wouldn't ya think? V mentioned three 
DEs, Harry learned the (possible) IDs of two of them. He HAD to be 
wondering about the 3rd. A good possibility shows up right under his 
nose and he doesn't see it? I don't buy it.


Fortunately, I think both Snape and Dumbledore are smart enough to 
understand exactly what V.'s intentions are.


> letting of steam, and wondering how it would be if HPfGU members 
wore 
> a HPfGU badge or something to the bookstores at 12:01, June 21, if 
> they're going...

That would be cool! I vote "yes!"

Melpomene