Snape:second chance?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115880


"legobaty29" wrote:

> <snip> I agree with
> Lisa Marie that Snape's first chance was used up when he joined the 
> Death Eaters. I know that Dumbledore trusts him, but I wonder whether 
> he will ever be tempted to re-join Voldemort?  It has been suggested 
> that he won't (I think he touched on the subject during a conversation 
> with Karkaroff?) but the mark on his arm becomes stronger when
Voldemort is around, and I am thinking a) once you've been a Death
Eater you can never get rid of the mark or b) Snape has never got rid
of the mark because there's a thin chance he still has an allegiance
there.


Carol responds:
Crouch!Moody tells Snape (very cruelly) that "some marks never come
off" (quoting from memory--sorry). The Dark Marks do, however, fade or
darken as Voldemort loses or regains strength, as we see with
Karkaroff as well as Snape. That fading (perhaps accompanied by some
kind of pain) must be how the DEs knew that Voldemort had fallen but
wasn't quite dead. (Snape could have conveyed this information to
Dumbledore, which could be how DD learned about Godric's Hollow.
Bellatrix and her cronies must have based their attack on the
Longbottoms on the same source of information. How else would they
know that LV wasn't dead?)

Snape's Dark Mark *burns* when the loyal Death Eater Crouch!Moody
refers to it: note that Snape clutches his arm convulsively but lets
go when he realizes what he's doing, and he absent-mindedly rubs it as
if it's hurting him when Harry speaks Voldemort's name during the
first Occlumency lesson. To me, Snape's pain in these instances
indicates that, far from still having any allegiance to Voldemort, he
hates the Dark Lord, and the mark somehow senses that disloyalty and
punishes him. I very much doubt that Snape would have courageously
shown his Dark Mark to Fudge as proof that LV had indeed come back if
he still had any loyalty to LV. I also think Snape's mark will fade
permanently when Voldemort is finally destroyed (assuming that he
doesn't die defending Harry and the Cause).

Carol, who trusts Dumbledore's judgment regarding Snape and hopes
he'll be rewarded with the DADA position at last