Ch. 2 Inconsistency - Snape is not evil!

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No: HPFGUIDX 133118

I've been just skimming the posts so far today (I can't keep up!) 
but I don't think that anyone's mentioned this yet. There is a major 
inconsistency in what Snape tells Bella and 'Cissy about DD's hand 
injury and what DD himself tells Harry! Quotes follow:

"The duel with the Dark Lord last month shook him. He has since
sustained a serious injury because his reactions are slower than 
they once were" (pg 31, Scholastic Deluxe Edition).

  Upon first reading of this line, my husband and I immediately
assumed that Snape was saying that the injury happened during 
the MoM duel at the end of OotP. In fact, we had to re-read the 
part where DD tells Harry about receiving the injury after destroying 
the first Horcrux because we were confused. Snape appears to be 
purposely misleading Bella (and us, consequentially) into thinking 
that DD was hurt in the duel with LV.

 Why would he conceal the real source of DD's injury if he was ESE? I
argue that it is because he doesn't want any hint of the true cause
to 
reach LV and the DEs. He KNOWS about the Horcrux being destroyed 
because he helped save DD from whatever curse it was that destroyed 
his hand. He knows what DD is really up to but he isn't sharing this 
information with the "dark side". 

- Princess Sara