Snape's reporting methods (What DD says is more important.)

[justcarol67]

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vmonte wrote:
> 
> What I found interesting about this bit of info is what DD says, not 
> how Snape reports info.
> It's almost as if DD is saying, "Yeah, thanks for telling me the 
> obvious, Snape."  Maybe, Snape is giving DD useless information. I 
> also wonder why DD placed this insignificant memory in the penseive 
> to study.  If the information Snape was giving him was useless, why 
> place it in the penseive?  Is he studying the information, or Snape?
> <snip>

Carol:
DD's response bothered me, too, because it seems to be putting Snape
(or his information) down--treating it as unimportant--yet as you say,
it seems odd that he would put it in the Pensieve if that were the case. 

I think, first, that the information about the Dark Mark becoming more
distinct *was* important. It was only the the *connection* between
Snape's mark and Karkaroff's that DD could have made "without assistance."

Also, IMO DD is putting all the people who are important in the GoF
debacle--Harry himself, all the possible suspects (except Madame
Maxime) who might have put Harry's name in the goblet, and anyone else
who might be connected with those people (including Snape) into the
Pensieve to find connections--Karkaroff and Snape, Karkaroff and
Moody, Karkaroff and Crouch, Crouch and Moody, and so on--trying to
fit the pieces together, to solve the mystery that began with the Dark
Mark and Winky by examining his memories of all those people, recent
and not so recent.

And Snape's report *is* important because it shows that LV is getting
stronger and Karkaroff is getting nervous--ready to "flee," as Snape
puts it--and therefore is *not* a likely person to have put Harry's
name in the goblet. So Snape's report is in the Pensieve with good
reason--but not a reason that DD is likely to tell Harry. And the fact
that the Dark Mark becoming more vivid shows up when Snape, with
remarkable courage, forces Fudge to look at it at the end of Gof.
Insignificant information? I really don't think so.

Carol, who believes Dumbledore's repeated assertions that he trusts
Snape and thinks that Snape would not have revealed the information
about the mark becoming darker if he could not be trusted