'the one who left for ever' Was: JKR chat

[ghinghapuss]

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>Sue wrote:
> Snape on the other hand is way too smart to be somebody's lacky, 
even Malfoy. 
><snip>

Mandy here:
Don't you think Snape is smart enough to 'appear' to be some one's 
lackey even if it is not really so, to get what he or DD desires?  I 
think so.  It seems pretty clear Snape has a relationship with 
Malfoy, Malfoy has a lot more power than our Sevvy,  ergo Snape works 
for, or under Lucius in some capacity.   I will concede that we can't 
take Sirius Lapdog insult too literally. When we consider the course 
and the animosity that exists between the two men, Sirius would have 
said anything, true or false, to get at Snape and Sirius could have 
been referring back to Snape's school days with that comment.   I 
disagree with you about Snape and LV though.  I don't think Snape 
talks with LV personally, it would be far too dangerous to expose him 
to LV power, and expose DD and Harry Potter to LV through Snape.  I 
know Snape is supposed to be this world class Occulmens, but I have 
to believe LV is far more powerful that Snape in order to believe 
what the threat that is posses to the WW.  Snape must be in 
communication with some one else, and Malfoy seems to be the logical 
choice to me.  

>Sue wrote:
> We know from many examples of canon that no one leaves Voldmort.  
It is either a >lifelong commitment or death.  If Voldemort believed  
Snape had truly left him forever, >he would not have lived to see the 
beginning of book 5.  BTW, asking whether we >would ever see Karkarof 
again might have been a good one!

Mandy here:
Not unless LV `wants' to keep Snape alive.  Of course LV could kill 
Snape at anytime, so the question has to be why is he keeping him 
alive?  LV has to have a very good reason to, and to what that reason 
is, we can only speculate.

What you say make perfect sense and could very well be right but I'm 
more inclined to believe the situation for Snape is much more complex 
than you make it out to be.  Or perhaps I just want it to be that 
way. ;-)  I wish life was easy for our dear old Snape but he wouldn't 
be the tortured soul we love to hate if it was.

Mandy