More Snape conundrums...

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No: HPFGUIDX 71897

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426 at a...> 
wrote:
> 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?

I don't think he was surprised. The way i see it, he didn't want 
Harry to say that. He definitely knew Lucius was a DE and after the 
stunt he pulled in CoS it wasn't that big a stretch but my guess is 
that either because Lucius is Snape's source of information or 
because Snape has a personal relationship with him (friends? 
relatives? hell, even lovers considering Sirius' lapdog comment) or 
a combination of the two, Snape didn't want it known that Lucius is 
a Death Eater. After all, Lucius is Draco's dad and Snape seems to 
treat the boy as though he were his own son. Whether he's for real 
or faking it, my take is that he didn't want that little fact 
revealed in front of Fudge.

> - Similarly, WHY is he still friends with Lucius?

Are we sure they're really friends? For all we know, he's using 
Lucius.

> - 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?

For all we know, he did. Why wasn't Harry warned? When has warning 
Harry not to go somewhere ever worked?

> - 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?

He said "One who I believe has left me forever". As in, "i'm not 
sure". My guess, Snape gave him some sort of evidence that he really 
is on his side. But since JKR hasn't given us much info on the 
subject, I really don't know. I suspect we'll find out in Book 6. 
But if he's not spying I really wonder what he's got to report. Or 
what was that thing he told Harry about finding out Voldemort's 
plans being his job.

> - After everything that happened in GoF, why does he STILL HATE 
> HARRY so much?

Why the hell should he LOVE HARRY? Seriously, I guess the Pensieve 
scene is a pretty good indication. He can't accept that Harry is not 
James. 

> - Is Snape going to die to save Harry? (I know other people have 
> asked this question, but my opinion is YES.)

I sure hope not. Such a cliche.

> - 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

That would be a pathetic twist. I could see Snape perhaps faltering 
on where his allegiance stands in the books to come but not having 
been eeevil all along. Too many twists and turns are never a good 
thing and we've spent too long suspecting Snape.

And no. Not much of a twist. For being a Legilimens and what have 
you, Dumbledore seems to be dumb as a brick sometimes (Fake!Moody 
anyone?) So it wouldn't really surprise me if Snape double crosses 
him and he hadn't seen it coming. Would have been quite in character 
for good old Albus, really.

Mim