New thoughts on Occlumency

[fandulin]

No: HPFGUIDX 100888

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <teilani2002 at y...> 
wrote:
> Okay, this has been bugging me for a while now.  In SS, Snape 
meets 
> Quirrell in the forbidden forest, he's on to him about letting the 
> Troll into the school as a distraction, and tells him "We'll have 
> another little chat soon, when you've had time to think things 
over 
> and decide where your loyalties lie." (SS 13:226)  Even though we 
> readers didn't kow that LV was hiding in Q's turban (nor does 
Snape, 
> we assume) LV *was* there.  How can LV not now know where 
*Snape's* 
> loyalties lie?!  
> 
> This is in the very first book, so I really don't see how Snape 
can 
> truly be spying for both sides, or how LV, Lucius, or anyone else 
for 
> that matter, can believe that Snape _isn't_ loyal to DD.  Wouldn't 
LV 
> know from that moment on that Snape is no longer loyal to LV at 
all?
> Any thoughts?<

Oh wow, that's kinda weird!  I'd forgotten about that.  Well, i've 
got a rationali...<ahem><cough> explanation for that.  I've thought 
before that with Snape working at Hogwart's, and his association 
with Dumbledore, Voldemort might have reservations about him anyway, 
and that perhaps he's using Snape for his own purposes, with every 
intention of disposing of him eventually.  We don't know much about 
what information Snape is prying out of Voldemort and his circle 
right now, and it could be that Snape is in even more danger than 
anyone realizes.  Maybe Voldemort is just feeding Snape useless or 
false information to keep him at ease, until whatever purpose he has 
for him is realized, then...(draws finger across windpipe).

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