[HPforGrownups] Snape&Karkaroff... and a third party?

[An'nai Jiriki]

No: HPFGUIDX 92728


--- nkittyhawk97 <nkittyhawk97 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In the quote on page 651 of the US GoF containing,
> "One, too 
> cowardly to return" and "One who I believe has left
> me forever" has 
> never, in my eyes, had any room LEFT for
> speculation.
> 

> So, my question is, if someone else was the "One who
> I believe has 
> left me forever", then where does that place Snape?
> Some could say 
> he was secretly faithful, unkown to the readers, but
> then he would 
> still have been listed under the six that were
> absent.
> And Rowling only said in her interview, concerning
> the quote, 
> to "work it out", therefore concluding we had all
> the information to 
> do so, and that it didn't seem too difficult in her
> eyes.


I have thought about it and think this. (Thinking
being key to this response)

If Voldemort is really that good, then he is a
thinker. While I do not believe it was his presentable
intention to leave Harry alive after his return party,
I also think he wanted Harry to live in a small sense.
I mean, how else is 14 year-old boy going to defeat
all those men? It was far too easy for Harry to
escape. Also, why else would the portkey have a return
setting if not for someone to return?

Voldemort, with the knowledge that Harry might/should
get away, refrained from mentioning Snape in order to
keep his spy safe. He would not know that Snape is
Dumbledore's spy, as only Karakoff knew Snape was the
spy and he did not tell the Death Eaters or Voldemort,
nor that he would reveal himself later. As for the
mark still burning, it is possible that it burns for
sometime after the meeting, hence his ability to show
Fudge. We just don't know enough about the mark to
make the judgement if Snape was at the meeting or not
because of the mark.

Chris $0.02

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