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No: HPFGUIDX 144683

Subject: Horcrux!Snape doesn't cut it (was Evil Overlord for the 
day ) 

SSSusan:
What I wonder is: Is it possible to keep from Voldy the knowledge
that his horcruxes are being hunted & destroyed? Will Voldy not have
built into one or more of them some kind of special, internal,
additional magic which would provide him with a warning that
somebody's messin' with his goods? I mean, he's an overconfident
kind of guy, but would he be THAT stupid to not at least consider a
magical alert mechanism on at least one of the horcruxes?

Orna:
I have a thought about this – concerning (again
) Snape. It seems 
that the whole plot of book 7 rests not so much on what Harry will 
do – but on who Snape really is.
Snape most probably knows DD is hunting Voldemort's horcruxes: he 
was the one who healed DD when Marvolo's ring-horcrux injured him, 
and he must have understood something about it, in order to save DD, 
even if DD didn't confide in him. I think DD did confide in Snape, 
since he trusts Severus Snape, period. But further on, when he gets 
out of the cave, he tells Harry, to go directly to Snape, and tell 
him everything. That sounds very clear to me: DD doesn't feel he has 
to keep the horcrux-hunt secret from Snape, so he probably has told 
him before, when he needed his aid. 
So, if Snape is ESE!Snape – we may assume he has told Voldemort 
about the horcrux-hunt. And it might be interesting to see if canon 
supports it in a way. Because – if Voldemort is alerted to the hunt –
 it might – 
1. Make him feel the most important thing is to get rid of DD, Hmm

2. Do something about moving the horcruxes, or strengthening 
security. No clear canon about it - the cave-horcrux was fake; did 
Voldemort know it by now? 
It doesn't seem Voldemort is very active in moving horcruxes in HBP, 
but who knows? 

If Snape is DDM! – the horcrux hunt is still secret.  Since I'm a 
DDM!Snape, I feel that Harry playing hide and seek with Voldemort on 
his horcruxes, isn't a very interesting plot for book 7. I mean, 
part of the point of the horcruxes is that they symbolize 
Voldemort's torn and split soul. DD says, that perhaps near his 
death moment Voldemort will be able to realize, his horcruxes are 
gone, thereby IMO getting human again, feeling the loss and some 
connectedness with his soul. Voldemort playing around with his 
horcruxes, hiding them, being concerned about what happens to them, 
psychologically-wise looks wrong to me. He makes a horcrux, and 
that's the last he feels about this part belonging to him. He feels 
save from death, and part of this safety comes from the horcrux 
being non-related to him anymore – that's IMO the essence of the 
ruin to his soul.

Orna