Do the Death Eaters know Snape is with the Order?

[mkaliz]

No: HPFGUIDX 68367

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ffimiles" <ffionmiles at h...> 

> But what I've always wondered is, in GoF, when LV is musing about 
> which death eaters are present, and which are not, he does say 
> something about one having betrayed them, or at elast being msising 
> from their ranks for good, and that he will be found and dealth 
> with.  I assume dhe meant Snape at this point, because Snape wasn't 
> present in the graveyard - and if he's now supposed to be an 
> unsuspected member of the DE, then surely he ought to have turned up 
> at this point?

But we don't know for certain that Snape wasn't in the graveyard. He
could well have been, with a couple flips of Dumbledore's time turner.

Presumably Snape's Dark Mark would have burned when Voldemort called
all the Death Eaters. All he would have had to do was note the time,
then use the time turner to get back to that point. He and Dumbledore
already knew that Harry had survived the encounter (granted, Harry was
hit with the Cruciatus, but still...) and so there would have been no
need for Snape to interfer (and thereby blow his cover) in whatever
showdown Voldemort had planned with Harry. 

Also, in GoF, Voldemort doesn't name all of the DEs who are missing
(notice, for instance, the bunch of DEs who escaped from Azkaban in
OotP, but who weren't mentioned in the graveyard--unlike the
LeStranges, who were also incarcerated, but who were mentioned by
name), so it seems possible that he might not have mentioned, by name,
all the DEs who were also present.

Not that I'm claiming that Snape *is* a spy among the Death Eaters,
just that it seems possible that he could be.

--kai