More Snape conundrums...

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 71885

I know Snape has been discussed and discussed and discussed, but in 
my perusals so far I have a few more questions about him that I 
don't think any one has asked.  Namely:

- Why is he SO SURPRISED to hear Harry say Lucius Malfoy was at the 
graveyard at the end of GoF?  Presumably, they were death eaters 
together back in the day, so shouldn't he have known that?
- Similarly, WHY is he still friends with Lucius?
- Why did he give Umbridge any Veritaserum in OoP?  He says to her 
at the end of the book something like, "I gave you my last bottle to 
interrogate Potter."  But he should have known that she would ask 
Harry about Sirius, or Dumbledore, or anything else related to the 
Order, and not wanted her to find out!  Unless he gave her something 
that wasn't *really* Veritaserum the first time and turned her down 
flat the 2nd time she asked for it.
- After he saw it in Harry's mind during Occlumency, shouldn't he 
have told Dumbledore that Harry saw the Department of Mysteries in 
his dream so that they could have warned Harry not to go there?
- How can he possibly be spying on Voldemort again?  In the 
graveyard scene, when V is going around his circle of Death Eaters 
and saying who is missing, he says something like, "One too cowardly 
to return, he will be punished" - presumably Karkaroff- "and here is 
one I fear who has left me forever, he will of course be killed"- so 
if he means Snape, which I think he must, then he knows Snape has 
left him- so is he just biding his time? Is he feeding Snape false 
information as Snape is trying to spy?
- After everything that happened in GoF, why does he STILL HATE 
HARRY so much?
- Is Snape going to die to save Harry? (I know other people have 
asked this question, but my opinion is YES.)
- Wouldn't it be the biggest surprise of all if Dumbledore had been 
wrong about Snape all this time, and he IS really trying to open 
Harry's mind more for Voldemort to read it, etc.?  I don't think 
that's how it's going to happen (I hope not - Dumbeldore already has 
so much to feel guilty about after poor Sirius), but that would 
REALLY be a twist.

Allie