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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 122563


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "TrekkieGrrrl" <trekkie at s...> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...>
> To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:20 AM
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Snape as the one who won't return (Was: In
Defense 
> of Snape (VERY long)
> 
> 
> >> And I think it *is* a given that Snape does go back to Voldemort.
> > In GoF, Voldemort lists three missing Death Eaters.  We know that one
> > is Crouch, Jr., one is Karkaroff, and one is Snape.  Voldemort calls
> > one his "most faithful servant [...] He is at Hogwarts, that faithful
> > servant, and it was through his efforts that our young friend arrived
> >> here tonight..."  Obviously - this is Crouch, Jr.
> 
> Do we know for sure that Snape was actually missing from that meeting?!
> 
> ~TrekkieGrrrl

Carol responds:
You can't apparate from Hogwarts or Hogwarts grounds. Snape would have
had to escape DD's eye, run to his office to get his mask and hooded
cloak, run to Hogsmeade, apparate, get through the meeting, apparate
back to Hogsmeade, run to his office to put away his DE things, and
run back to DD with a plausible excuse for his absence and being out
of breath. Nope. Not enough time.

He's not mentioned by name and LV's description of "the one I believe
has left me forever" fits him perfectly. And he's not the coward;
that's clearly Karkaroff, who fled after the tournament to avoid
retribution from the other DEs. Snape is on hand to help DD burst into
Crouch!Moody's office. And what other reformed DE would have the
courage to stay away on principle rather than through cowardice like
Karkaroff?

So, no, we don't know for sure that he wasn't in the graveyard, but I
see no plausible way for him to get there and back without being
discovered and no plausible reason for him to be there. And at the end
of GoF, he is clearly going into danger, almost certainly to explain
his absence to either Lucius Malfoy, his contact, or Voldemort
himself, and to find out whatever he can for DD. If LV still thought
he was a loyal DE who had obeyed the summons and attended the
graveyard meeting, there would be no danger.

Carol