Snape the Traitor or is there one other

[sbursztynski]

No: HPFGUIDX 80516

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Dragonetti <kozmoz47 at y...> 
wrote:
> When Voldemort returns in his speech to his Death Eaters he says 
that one of their numbers, he believes, left him forever and adds he 
shall be killed of course. We most assume that the particular ex-
Death Eater is Snape; even take it as a given. Now if so far we are 
Umbridge says that Lucius Malfoy speaks highly of him. L. M. is a 
Death Eater and if Snape really was a spy for DD and showed his true 
colors to the Death Eaters as Voldemort wants him dead, then why 
would L.M. speak highly of him instead of giving him to Voldemort? 
Snape can't have placed a spell on him, Voldemort would have noticed. 
In conclusion, Snape is still working for Voldemort, maybe as a 
double agent, but still close to him. 


***I found this confusing too, but then, if you remember, when Harry 
sarcastically asks Snape if it was his job to find out what LV is 
saying to the Death Eaters, Snape smiles and says that, yes, it is. 
Which may be a clue to this mission he's doing for DD. LV doesn't 
get  a chance in GoF to actually give any details to Lucius and Co. 
about *who's* the one who's run, who's left, etc. and remember, they 
haven't seen him in years. The way I see it is, Snape is many things, 
but he's neither a coward nor a fool (a bit overemotional, perhaps, 
but not dumb). I really can't see him actually *liking* Draco. He 
sucks up to him and his awful dad because it's the only way to spy on 
them. I can see him in the last novel punching Lucius (or the wizard 
equivalent) and saying, "By the way, Draco, I never did like you. You 
are a little *** and I'd rather be stuck in a room with Harry Potter 
forever than spend another class with you." Sue B