How does Snape get away with it?

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 83235

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sachmet96" <sachmet96 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> > sachmet96:
> I have thought about that too, recently
> Syd pointed in message 83169 to message 7901 that Voldemort already 
> knows that Snape's loyalities lie not with him.
> 
> citing from message 7901
> "Back in October/November one of the posters on Jenna's UHPFC board
> attended a reading that JKR did in Vancouver.She reported that
> afterwards there was a Q&A session, during which JKR was asked
> straight out who the three "missing" Death Eaters were.JKR gave a
> reply which apparently made it obvious that the faithful servant was
> Barty, the coward was Karkaroff - and the one who had left forever
> and who would be killed was Snape."
> 
> If this is true, then Snape can't be spying directly on Voldemort. 
> There must be another way for him to spy (maybe he has a spy 
network 
> or something like that).

Perhaps he just went back, took his lumps (a bit of cruciatus) 
grovelled convincingly and is back on a probationary basis.

Perhaps Voldemort just thinks he's cute (yeah, I know he betrayed me 
but he just looks so hot in that cloak and mask...)and decided to 
forgive him anyway.  Evil overlords are generally very susceptible to 
flattery and grovel.  Voldy might well be the most powerful dark 
wizard of his age, but it strikes me that like most EO's he can be 
remarkably stupid at times - after all the current match series 
stands as follows:

Voldemort 0  HP 3,  two matches drawn 

Played five fixtures as follows:

Godric's Hollow  - HP won
Hogwarts - getting philosopher's stone - HP won - again
Chamber of Secrets - HP won
Cemetary confrontation - draw
Ministry of Magic - draw.

If the average EO was as good as they are always depicted in 
fiction - quite simply - they'd win if it wasn't for trusting the 
wrong people and so on.  Stopping to show off and duel with 
adolescent boys when you could just curse them to death springs to 
mind here too.  

So I have no problem believing that Snape could get back in - he 
could certainly talk his way past that.

June