Snape as the one who won't return (Was: In Defense of Snape (VERY long)

[ms_luna_knows]

No: HPFGUIDX 122318


> >>TrekkieGrrrl replied:
> >> Do we know for sure that Snape was actually missing from that meeting?!
>snip >>
> >
> > Tammy:
> >
> > Personally I don't believe Snape was at the graveyard, but I love to
> > argue to point that he COULD have been there... so here's my version
> > of how it could have happened:
> >
> --<Snip a great explanation of what could have happened>--
> >
> > And if you remember, when Harry and Dumbledore are trying to convince
> > Fudge that what Harry saw was real, Harry starts naming names. When
> > Harry first starts, it says this about Snape: "Snape made a sudden
> > movement, but as Harry looked at him, Snape's eyes flew back to
> > Fudge." Now it could be that reaction was simply because his "friend"
> > Lucius had just been named. Or it could have been that Snape was
> > afraid that Harry had recognized Snape in the graveyard.
> >

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> >
> > -Tammy, who likes to open possibilities.
> 
> See, that what have been bothering me as well. I am actually quite convinced 
> that Snape isn't one of the three DE's LV mentions. As far as we know, LV 
> has no reason to believe that Snape SHOULDN'T be there. No, the third DE is 
> someone else IMO. I just don't know who.
> 
>
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> The third DE could be a woman too. As Bellatrix so proves, not just men are 
> Death Eaters.
> 
> ~TrekkieGrrrl

Ms. Luna,
I agree that Snape is not one of the three DE's mentioned by LV.....and I am going out on a 
limb here, but I think that one of the DE's mentioned by LV could be Ludo Bagman.  In GoF 
we see Bagman being tried for passing information...he gets off, but I sense that he gets 
off because of his popularity as a Quidditch player.  I theorize that the *jury/
wizengamot*(sp?) couldn't imagine that Ludo was *smart or clever* enough to pull off 
what he was being accused of.  But what if he was?  JKR has led us astray before, why not 
in this instance?