Snape as baddie/Snape in the foe glass/Snape's Duty for the Order

[potioncat]

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Magda wrote: 
> Another reason Voldemort might need Snape alive is that Snape was 
the
> potions lackey back in the old days and he needs a good potions man
> to get those immortality spells going again.  
> 
> So I don't assume that just because Snape's not dead yet it means
> that Voldemort has changed his mind.
> 


potioncat:
You've made some very valid points.  I'd add that no one...or least 
not everyone knew who should have been at that spot. So not all of 
the DEs know who the one who left me forever is or who the coward 
is.  (I wonder if they chat about it as much as we do?) Some of them 
may be waiting to see if someone disappears.  

I'd also add, that for some reason almost all of us think Snape was 
LV's personal potionmaker.  We don't really know that.  He could 
have been Court Hexter.

Potioncat  who really can imagine Snape whispering to the Dark 
Lord, "The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true..."