Snape and GOF

[Mari]

No: HPFGUIDX 144380

 
>"UNIX4EVR"
>
> I'm so confused!
> 
> I had finally concluded that Snape was 100% evil.
> 
> Then I re-read GOF.
> 
> About 100 pages from the end Voldemort gives a little speech to his 
> followers.  He says "There are 6 missing.  3 are dead.  1 is a 
> coward, and I'll find him.  The other turned against me and I'll 
> kill him.  The 6th has returned to me and is at Hogwarts."
> 
> He goes on to say the 6th one at Hogwarts helped to get Harry to 
him 
> in the graveyard.  This has to be Barty Crouch, Jr.
> 
> The coward has to be Karkaroff.
> 
> Which leaves Snape.  "The one who turned against me and I'll kill 
> him."
> 
> The only other explanation is that Snape was the one who returned 
to 
> him at Hogwarts -- but we get no indication in GOF that Snape had 
> anything to do with the tri-wizard cup or killiing BC Sr.
> 
> So I'm back to being confused and wondering if Snape ISN'T a good 
> guy after all?


Now me:

I have gone back myself and looked at this passage because it is very 
interesting. I have come to the conclusion that Snape is the one, who 
at the time of GoF, Voldemort believed had left him for ever. Note, 
Voldemort does not say 'turned against me' he says, 'one who I 
believe has left me forever'.

This is re-enforced by Snape's use of the same phrase 'at that time 
voldemort believed I had left him forever' (or words to that effect) 
in his talk with Bellatrix and Narcissa in the Spinner's End Chapter.

I have read back over this Chapter and am realising in a new way 
exactly how clever Snape is being here. He is using, I believe, a 
mixture of truth and lies that is very convincing. We know, for 
example, that he most definitely does *not* believe that Harry is 
mediocre in the last degree, as he claims. 

The most interesting thing is that if Snape (as seems highly likely) 
is the one who Voldemort believed had left him forever, Voldemort 
*also* said 'he will be killed, of course.' Since Snape convinced 
Voldemort to trust him when he was sent back by Dumbledore, Voldemort 
has not carried out this threat yet. Does that mean, however, that it 
won't happen in Book 7? We still don't know for certain how Voldemort 
is going to react to Snape's doing the task that Draco was supposed 
to do.

I never thought it likely that Snape is going to survive Book 7. 
These connections between GoF and HBP make it even less likely in my 
mind.

Mari.