Snape tried in court? And Rabastan Lestrange

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 88909

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severelysigune" 
<severelysigune at y...> wrote:
> This issue has probably been discussed before but I can't find it -
 
> so I would be grateful for any enlightening comments.
> 
> We know from the scene of Karkaroff's trial in GoF that Dumbledore 
> has spoken up in defense of Snape. If I remember correctly (I 
haven't 
> got my copy here) it is said that 'Snape has been cleared in 
court'. 
> Does this mean Snape has been under arrest at one point and 
brought 
> into court, or has he just been mentioned and cleared during 
another 
> trial? 
snips

I would assume that since Snape's role was that of a double agent 
that he could not have been tried by a full court, as there would 
have been too much of a chance that someone could have blown his 
cover to LV. When DD said that Snape had been cleared by the court, 
he may have been refrering to some sort of post-LV's-fall hearings 
that were used to clear up who was on what side. Snape turned back 
to DD's side at "gret personal risk" and did so before LV fell, so 
the hearing that Snape had could very well have been a mere 
formality. I don't think that Snape had ever been under arrest, but 
what really interests me in this situation is how someone as 
influential in the ministry as Lucius Malfoy could not have known 
about Snape being a traitor of the DEs. 
Meri