Spinner's End Most Important Clues Chapter?

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 135677

Cindy wrote:

pg. 37 AE HBP

"Bellatrix's astounded face glowed red in the blaze of a third tongue
of flame, which shot from the wand, twisted with the others and bound
itself thickly around their clasped hands, like a rope, like a fiery
snake."

This doesn't sound like the vow "didn't take", so I don't feel there's
any point of believing (hoping!) in a "Dumbledore's death was faked"
storyline. So my conclusion now, sadly, is that Dumbledore is dead,
the kind of dead that you don't come back from. It still leaves
speculation that Snape could not have known exactly what Draco's
orders were, and he spent most of the entire school year trying to
find out fully the mission Draco was ordered to fulfill--in fact, he
was all over Draco like a cheap suit to the point that Draco thought
he was trying to steal his thunder. It might explain the argument that
Hagrid overheard Snape and Dumbledore having--where Snape didn't want
to do it anymore...because he found out the deed was to kill DD?

And then there is Wormtail. Does anybody believe that Voldemort sent
him there to "assist" Snape? In doing what? Snape relegated him to
servant status and Wormtail was listening at the door. I think he was
put there by Voldemort to keep an eye on Snape. For what reason? That
Voldemort doesn't trust Snape? That puts an interesting "spin" on
things...DD trusts Snape to the nth degree and Voldemort doesn't.

vmonte:
Nice post Cindy. I don't think that Voldemort trusts Snape either. I 
think that Draco's task was really Voldemort's way of testing Snape.

Voldemort was not sure of Snape's loyalty and wanted to see how far 
Snape would go to help Draco complete his task. 

Vivian