Snape's Destiny/JKR quotes

dumbledore11214 dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 10 01:13:41 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 105360

> Demetra wrote:
> I'm going to admit up front that I'm one of those people who takes 
a 
> lot at face value when reading the books.  I guess I just assumed 
> that Snape was spying again since that was what he did before.  
> Dumbledore says this in the pensieve scene of Karkaroff's trial in 
> GoF.  I assumed that DD asked him to go back to spying at the end 
of 
> Gof.  Then at the beginning of OotP, when Harry first arrives at 
> Grimmauld Place everyone is waiting for Snape's report at the 
Order's 
> meeting.  Why so interested, if he wasn't coming with news about 
> Voldemort and the DE's?  What else could Snape be reporting on that 
> would be of such interest?



Alla:


I definitely take some things in the books at face value, but not 
everything.

I think that Snape going back to Voldemort ashimself will be : too 
obvious and practically impossible. 

I believe that Voldemort referred to Snape, when he said "the one who 
left me forever"


Now, Snape could have definitely reported news about Voldemort and 
DE, but how he obtained those news, that is a  different story for me.





Demetra:
> As far as Crouch!Moody, I think it was just a different situation.  
> He was impersonating someone who was a friend of Dumbledore's.  As 
> such, he would be expected to act like someone on Dumbledore's 
side.  
> If he acted like the DE that he was, he would be suspected 
> immediately.  Thus, he needed to be nice to Harry and the 
> Gryffindors.  I would imagine he was probably real nice to the 
other 
> teachers, except Snape.  He treats Snape exactly the way one would 
> assume the real Moody would.  He actually made an excellent mole.  
So 
> I see it as actually the same situation, but in reverse.  Both 
Snape 
> and Crouch Jr. have/had a cover to keep and both do/did it by 
acting 
> opposite to what they really are.  



Alla: 

I am sorry to be annoying, but I am still confused. To make a long 
story short, I guess, my question will be:

Who is expecting Snape to act unfair, abusive,(whatever) to Harry?

If your answer is Voldemort, my next question will be Why?

To me, Voldemort's logical expectations of Snape will be to pretend 
being Harry's friend (HAHAHA!) , get closer to him and then capture 
him , kill him, etc.


What am I missing?

Why Voldemort will expect Snape to be horrible to Harry?


Thanks







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