my greatest fear....The Potions Master chapter, SS/PS

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 121447


Potioncat:
Here are two sections that made me wonder. It's nothing the Snape
opposition hasn't been saying all along, but for some reason, it hit
home when I read it this time. I'm not fully converted, but my faith
in Snape is shaken!

PoA "The Servant of Lord Voldemort" (chp 19)
Snape speaking,
"Ive told the headmaster again and again that you've been helping
your old friend Black into the castle, Lupin, and here's the proof.
Not even I dreamed you would have the nerve to use this old place as
your hideout--"
...
"Two more for Azkaban tonight," his eyes now gleaming fanatically.I
shall be interested to see how Dumbledore takes this...he was quite
convinced you were harmless, you know Lupin...a *tame* werewolf--"

Then in "Owl Post Again" chp 22
Harry and Hermione over hear Sanpe and Fudge. Snape is speaking and
Harry hears him in mid sentence,
"...only hope Dumbledore's not going to make difficulties," Snape
was saying. "The kiss will be performed immediately?"

In the first case, Snape has been telling DD about Lupin all along
and is eager to be proven right. But he shows no regret for the
pain this will cause DD.

snip

vmonte responds:

I have a feeling you're right potioncat.  Didn't JKR recently tell 
her fans that they should be thinking about how Harry and Voldemort 
both survived at GH?

I wonder if Snape put a stopper on Voldemort's death. 

And do you think that Snape has used the "Draught of Living Death" 
before?  And if so why?

Page 138, SS:

"For your information, Potter, asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping 
potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death. A 
bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save 
you from most poisons. As for monkshood and wolfsbane, they are the 
same plant, which also goes by the name aconite."

Didn't Dumbledore's brother get in trouble for doing inappropriate 
spells on a goat?  Do you think he is taking medication for some 
poison he was given? 

Is wolfsbane the potion that Lupine takes?

Just wondering...