What has Snape seen (Was Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs)

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 118654


Magda:
> Interesting that she says "he will have SEEN things that..."
> not "he will have DONE things that..."
> Assistant-to-Voldemort's-Potion-Master!Snape sounds quite likely.

Nora: 
> True.  But that means *minimum* of aiding-and-abetting.  <snip>
> I find it hard to reconcile a Snape who didn't actually have to do
> anything but make potions with the example (admittedly spotty) of
> Regulus Black, who panicked at the demands and got killed. <snip>

Neri:
> Actually, JKR saying here "he will have SEEN" doesn't imply at all
> that our dear Severus hasn't DONE anything. The reason JKR
> said "seen" was that she was answering the question "can Snape see
> thestrals?" IWO she was referring to the question if he has SEEN
> death.


Kathy Writes:

I would assume that it would be unlikely for students to be 
marked as full DE's due to the lack of privacy.  I would also tend to 
assume, considering the general dumbness of most of the other 
deatheaters that Snape was a relatively good score for Voldemort and he 
would have treated Snape decently at first.  It would not be out of the 
question for V to possibly  arrange an aprrenticeship for Snape to 
become a  Master of Potions in order to provide whatever substances V. 
required for his imortality, and whatever research might be required.  
In this scenario, Snape might have  joined the DE's shortly after 
graduation, and served his apprenticeship requirements.  Once this had 
been completed, he would then have been expected to take his place among 
the DE's, which would be just about the time he went to Dumbledore.  It 
could be that the first few requirements of V's was more than he could 
stomach.  As a spy, at that time, as Dumbledore stated, he would have 
been expected to participate or perhaps produce potion requirements and 
still maintain his cover.  It certainly takes up the 5-6 year time span 
between graduation and  V's fall.
                                                                                    
KJ