Vengeance on Snape?Re: Snape--Abusive?

[syroun]

No: HPFGUIDX 115909


Sigune:
> Well, 1) we know from OotP that he's not in the group photo of 
the Order Moody shows Harry; 
 
syroun:
>which proves nothing...
 
Nora:
> Please clarify this blank assertion.  

If we review canon, we see that Snape was admittedly a DE and has, 
at some point, turned to the side of DD and has become a closet 
member of the OOTP. I tend to think his defection was nothing new, 
and had occured some time ago, perhaps even during LVWI. If that had 
been the case, it would have served no good purpose to "out him" as 
a member of the OOTP; indeed, it would have been a death sentence. I 
think that he may have very well have been a longer term member of 
the order but not included in the photo. Of course, that is pure 
speculation, but on the other hand, there is no proof that each and 
every member of the order was seen in that photo.

Nora:
> It seems, that unlike the DEs, the Order does *not* have a 
> situation wherein the members do not necessarily know who the 
> other members are.  

I do not agree. If this were the case, Sirius would have known of 
Snape's defection to the order, but he did not. I think that DD is 
intentional in his deliberate and painstaking efforts to control the 
delivery of information to characters, e.g. Harry, order members, 
etc. His choice of who to tell what, in my view, has a profound 
effect on the progress of events and is done so with reason.

  
> Sigune:
> Are you talking about the present OotP or the past OotP...

See above...I think it is a question as to when he actually 
defected - before LV's demise or after the war?
  
Syroun