Snape's position and the Pensieve

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 92566

 Potioncat:I snipped both my comments and Neri's to make this reply 
flow better. (I hope)

> Neri wrote:
> IMHO, DD was sending Snape straight to LV by the end of GoF, and 
this is why Snape was pale. Bar-hopping with Crabbe and Goyle is 
>just an added bonus, and if it seems easy to you, remember that LV 
>must be watching like a hawk every move of Snape, even if he was 
somehow (how?!) convinced to let Snape live.


Potioncat:
I agree, he was most likely on his way to LV at the end of Gof.  By 
OoP and beyond, Snape is using whatever means are available to spy 
on LV.  The idea of him in a bar with Crabbe and Goyle is both funny 
and painful! (But never easy!)

Neri:
> I fully agree that there is something going on between DD, Snape 
>and the pensieve. I think it was mentioned in this forum before 
>that, during the occlumency lessons in OotP, Snape was using DD's 
>pensieve, but when Harry portkeyed from the MoM to DD's office, who 
>was supposed to be locked while DD was away, the pensieve was there 
>in the room. So Snape was going in and out of DD's locked office, 
> borrowing and returning the pensieve.

Potioncat:
I don't think Snape is using DD's pensieve.  Harry thinks he is, but 
I do not.  I probably should have made a new post for the pensieve.  
(I snipped it from this one.)  My point was that with DD's 
supervision,  Harry sees a recent conversation between Snape and DD 
in DD's pensieve.  I think the 2 men had been discussing the dark 
mark problem and DD used the pensieve to gather and organize his 
thoughts.  That is what he tells Harry it is for.  It is later we 
see Snape use it to remove thoughts as if to keep them away from 
Harry.

I think that conversation may have been one of the last where they 
made their plans for how Snape will respond when the summons from LV 
comes.  Because by that time, it was obvious that LV would be 
summoning his DE's soon. 

On a slightly different note, Crouch/Moody dismisses Karkaroff for 
running away, but doesn't make any statement about Snape.  So, does 
Crouch/Moody think Snape went to the meeting? Or does he think Snape 
stayed at Hogwarts?  Or is it just that JKR doesn't want us to know 
what was going on?

Potioncat who doesn't care how Snape is doing it, so long as he 
survives.