[HPforGrownups] Traitor yet again (Was: Third Man in the Graveyard?)

[Tanya Swaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 85782

At 18:13 24/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>Twoflower2:  *nods*
>
>And this Death Eater would be the ESE Traitor of yet unknown identity.
>
>Pippin, referring to some of your earler posts, I completely agree
>with you that the series is going to have a big time traitor, and it
>is going to be one of the earlier war participants, who was
>introduced to the reader early in the series as a good guy. This
>would be the one whom Voldie really meant as "his most faithful
>servant in Hogwarts", and who, no doubt, was popping up throughout
>the whole story in the episodes like one you have just analyzed
>in "Third man" post.
>
>As a faithful lurker of this list, I know all about ESE Lupin and
>have to admit it's a very likely possibility. Though I'd rather have
>him as a goodie :) The other suspects would be such people as
>McGonagall (Elkins' subject), Snape or even Hagrid. Or maybe it could
>be somebody who was always there, but on the sidelines, away from
>readers' scrutiny?  Like Flitwick or Pomfrey?
>
>The other thing I could propose (no doubt, somebody have already done
>it) is a student who is not really a student. If magic can give a
>grown-up man a babyhead and turn a toad into tadpole, may be there is
>a way to revert a grown-up human to his or her child version.
>
>Two2


Tanya wrote

This is an interesting idea.  I will have to do some thinking.  However, I
cannot see how it can be Snape.  In the first book, Quirrell used him as
a useful smoke screen, which helped as Snape didn't tell anyone either.

The other issue with this, is Snape has such a abrasive personality, and
a good traitor will be one that everyone likes, and the shock factor at the
eventual unveiling.  Put it this way, at the stage in the story now, Harry
would be more than happy to find out Snape is a traitor.  But I feel that
the identity of the real traitor will be a very unpleasant shock to him.

Tanya