The Significance of the Foe-Glass

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 144029

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "truthbeauty1" <rh64643 at a...> 
wrote:
> I personally do not believe that Rowling will give anything away 
> about Snape until the very moment that truth becomes paramount.

Well, she doesn't give away the ultimate answer, but she's quite 
good at gesturing broadly.  Ron's rat is far too old. Lupin's 
boggart looks like a white orb. Just small examples.

She gives quite a lot away, all the time.  It seems to me that Snape 
was a character in her mind that she thought about quite a bit, and 
mapped out before she even began the books.  He's key, absolutely 
key to the overall plot arc.  He, more than any other character, is 
Harry's foil.  She certainly knew what was going to happen to him in 
the last book as she began the first.  

I think if we look, there are tons of hints there about all sorts of 
things, including Snape, many of which she might not have even 
realized she provided.  

The foe glass is one such hint, I think.  She may not even 
have "meant" for it to be closely analyzed, or provide a hint.  
Perhaps, knowing Snape as she does, she just put him in it because 
she knows that beside DD and McG is where he really belongs.

I'll tell you this, if Snape has been Voldemort's from the very 
beginning, the woman has an awful lot of explaining to do.