Voldemort must know about Snape

[Naama]

No: HPFGUIDX 73863

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy" <xpectopatronum at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Scott Santangelo
> <owlery2003 at y...> wrote: 
> > ghinghapuss <rredordead at a...> wrote:
> > > Deb S, aka readzalot, Canada
> > I believe Voldmort has to know about Snape and it choosing to keep
> that information to himself for the present...
> Now Cindy:
> 
> We have a few of clues: 1. The first big meeting that we see the 
> Order having is when Snape arrives, they are all waiting for him 
> and he is the central figure. After he leaves, Harry walks in on 
> two of the Weasley's examining a dozen parchments, and Harry also 
> notices that one of the parchments looks like 'the plans to a 
> house'. Could this be LV's hidie-hole that Snape is making plans 
> to? I think it is.

Naama: I disagree. Don't you think it more likely to be the plans of 
the Ministry of Magic, or specifically of the Department of 
Mysteries, where members of the Order will be keeping guard for LV?


> The only thing that I can't figure out is why how can he be friends
> with Malfoy (which he is) if LV knows about him. Either LV hasn't 
told
> Malfoy about Snape, or, Snape and Malfoy are in on something 
together,
> that has nothing to do with LV. 

Naama: Interesting question. That brings to mind something I've been 
thinking about for some time - could Snape and Malfoy have been 
school friends? I remember Sirius throwing something at Snape about 
being Lucius Malfoy's dog, and I sincerely doubt Sirius would know 
this from anywhere other than his school days. And Malfoy and Snape 
are very close in age - Malfoy is 41, and Snape should be 36 or 37 
(according to JKR). Why they would maintain that friendship after 
LV's fall from power is anyone's guess - wouldn't Malfoy know that 
Snape was a spy, considering the influence he had at the Ministry? 


--Naama