Who's the third dead death eater? / 'One who's left me forever...'

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No: HPFGUIDX 105694

> kandbmom:  This whole chapter leaves me with unanswered questions.  
I 
> am also considering the idea that Snape could have been the man 
> standing next to the space that separated Lucius and "the next 
man".  
> I have a feeling Snape is "the next man"  We know he had the mark 
and 
> he surely felt it burn and turn black.  Why did he wait to show DD 
> why not go to him then and then DD would know something was wrong 
> before Harry came out of the maze.  So, my question is, who is 
> the "One, who I believe has left me forever..."  I am leaning 
toward 
> Fudge?  He sure seems fishy!!


Neri:
Regarding the Snape-in-the-graveyard scenario, I had (how surprising) 
a speculation: Harry gets back from the graveyard, tells everybody 
that LV is back and names several DEs, but he doesn't mention Snape. 
Fudge storms out, and DD says to Snape: "Severus, you know what I 
must ask you to do. If you are prepared?" Snape answers, "I am" and 
sweeps out. Up to here it's canon, from here on – my speculation: 
Snape gets out of the Hogwarts grounds and takes a small object out 
of its robes: it's a time turner. Snape turns it six or seven times, 
then he waits until his Dark Mark appears, and disaparates to the 
graveyard. He knows that LV will recognize him but will not name him 
(because Harry didn't hear it). Now to the part that the Snape fans 
will really like: Maybe, when Harry is running from the DEs and LV 
towards the Goblet, Snape curses the DE's from behind so they fail to 
hit Harry. He should do it very covertly, however, because while he 
knows that Harry did manage to get away, he doesn't know that he (the 
Snape from the future) got away with it. 

This speculation assumes that LV recognizes Snape in the circle but 
doesn't speak to him, perhaps because he trusts Snape to be his loyal 
agent in Hogwarts and doesn't want the other DEs to know about it 
(standard need-to-know procedure). This explains how in OotP Snape 
seems to have regained the double agent position. However, this lives 
the position of the "one who left me forever" open, and I don't 
believe it is Fudge (see post #105541 for my reasons). Besides, Snape 
in OotP strikes me very much like Snape-who-is-still-in-debt-to-James-
and-hates-it, much more than Snape-who-closed-his-account-with-James-
and-now-can-treat-his-son-like-a-human-being. So I shelved this whole 
speculation, but if you like it you are invited to it.

Neri