Vengeance on Snape?Re: Snape--Abusive?

[severelysigune]

No: HPFGUIDX 115755


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severelysigune" 
> <severelysigune at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Sigune begs to differ:
> > He shows the Mark to *Fudge*. By that time, Crouch Sr is dead. 
> Crouch  Sr, by the way, KNEW about Snape's former DE 
> allegiances: he had been  the prosecutor in the DE trials, and 
> though we aren't shown Snapes,  we are shown Karkaroff's 
> 'information session' in which Crouch hears  DD mention, yet 
> again, that Snape has switched sides.<


Pippin wrote:
> Yet again? There's something curious about that. Crouch tells 
> Karkaroff that Dumbledore vouched for Snape and that Snape 
> has been cleared. But when Karkaroff insists,   Dumbledore has 
> to rise to report that Snape was indeed a former Death Eater, but 
> that he turned spy and is now a Death Eater no more.  Wouldn't 
> Crouch be the logical person to tell the tribunal this? Wouldn't 
> the permanent members of the tribunal already know? Unless, 
> perchance, they'd been memory charmed. Is Dumbledore's 
> function at the trials to recall information  which the tribunal 
> needs to know to decide a particular case, but which would be 
> dangerous for them to retain afterwards?

Sigune again:
Crouch does point it out himself as well - sorry, I forgot about that 
line:
"'Snape has been cleared by this council,' said Crouch coldly.
'No! shouted Karkaroff, straining at the chains which bound him to 
the chair. 'I assure you! Severus Snape is a Death Eater!'" (GoF Ch. 
30 The Pensieve, p. 513 British ed.)
That is when DD rises to re-state that he has given evidence on the 
matter, in view of Karakaroff's vehement insistence. I had the 
feeling, reading this, that he thought his fellow Wizengamot members 
might need some reminding - that Snape could do with some extra 
defending.

What keeps puzzling me - but I have little knowledge of the workings 
of law and court - is that Snape is 'cleared'. The word suggest to me 
that he is proved not guilty, whereas he clearly has been a Death 
Eater. Does anybody know what kind of status spies have, that is, are 
they 'cleared' of crimes committed because they made 'good' use of 
their experiences in the end? Even so, I think a verdict of 'not 
guilty' is a bit rich, but maybe that's just me.

Yours severely,

Sigune