New thoughts on Occlumency

[fandulin]

No: HPFGUIDX 100889

--- 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?>

...or (and I apologize for not organizing all my thoughts in one 
post) perhaps Snape is more far thinking that we give him credit 
for.  Maybe the conversation wasn't about the troll at all.  
Perhaps, highly suspicious that Quirrel is no good, he took the 
oportunity to bolster his standing with Voldemort by 
voicing "doubts" to him that he's not really loyal to the Dark Lord.
Of course then you would have to presume that Snape suspected 
Quirrel had Voldemort riding shotgun someplace on his body to hear 
such suspicions, but...

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