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

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 118657


> 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.
> 
> Kathy Wrote:
> 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.
                                                                     
Hannah: In some interpretations of the timeline, that gap is as 
short as 4 years.  That's not that long for Snape to join the DE's, 
be one for a while, change his mind, switch sides, and spy of a 
bit.  I also agree that Snape would have been quite a good catch for 
LV.  So I think he joined up shortly after graduation, maybe late 
that summer or the following autumn.  Also, his friends (Lucius, 
Bella, Rodolphus) that were in his 'gang' would probably already 
have been in by then, and keen for little Sevvie to join them.

Snape must have had some sort of 'respectable' job as well as being 
a DE.  He hadn't been accused of being a DE before LV fell (or 
Sirius would have known), so presumably he had some sort of cover.  
Maybe he worked for a potions making company, or at St. Mungo's 
(they must have in house potions makers). 

As to what he's seen or done, in some ways I hope he's not done 
anything too awful, but OTOH I think it would be a bit lame if it 
turns out he just hid away at HQ with his nose in a cauldron the 
whole time.  I reckon he'll have seen a lot of nasty things, and 
done at least a few himself.  For instance, I can see him managing 
the Cruiciatius curse without too much difficulty, if it was on 
the 'right' person.

Not sending Snape out to fight would be wasting a valuable resource 
for LV, IMO.  All the signs point to him being pretty handy in a 
duel, especially where he'd have the upper hand to start with.  
There's the quick reactions, the ability to keep his cool (at least 
in certain situations), his mastery of plenty of hexes... No, he'd 
have been there at various muggle killings and Order fights, maybe 
as Lucius' right hand man.  Even once he'd turned spy he'd still 
have had to participate when required in order to maintain his cover.

Hannah