The Significance of the Foe-Glass

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 144017

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rosered2318" 
<rosered2318 at y...> wrote:
> I can't recall if the foe-glass was mentioned in HBP but I find it 
> very curious that it deserves all of this attention.  I don't have 
> any theories because I am not a very good theory person, but I 
> feel 
> that the true significance of the foe-glass has not been revealed 
> yet.  Theories, anyone?


Well, for one thing, it seems to me to be incontrovertable proof 
that, at least as of the end of GoF, Snape was on the side of good, 
or at least opposed to Barty Crouch Jr.

If he were not, he would not have appeared in Barty Crouch Jr.'s foe 
glass.  

You can theorize all you want about how perhaps Snape was crouch's 
foe "just at that moment," etc. etc. etc.  But it would have been 
quite easy for Rowling to avoid the matter entirely by not having 
Snape in that particular scene.  Clearly we're meant to see Snape as 
with the forces of good here.  And if the foe glass reflected the 
polyjuice Moody, why would Dumbledore and McGonnagal appear there?

I haven't yet heard of any reasonable explanation of this which 
could show anything otherwise, though I'm open to persuasion.

And of course if Snape is with the forces of good at the end of GoF, 
he goes back to Voldemort as a double-agent for DUMBLEDORE, not for 
the Dark Lord.

Leslie