Did Snape know about the Horcruxes? (was Re: Snape/Regulus, post 135111)

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 135802

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, juli17 at a... wrote:
>  
> hg wrote:
> 
> Okay,  here's a what-if: what if it was Snape who was with him, they 
> left  together, Snape turned him in, thereby securing a position close 
> to  Voldemort, and simultaneously Snape told Dumbledore about the 
> Horcrux,  thereby securing a position close to Dumbledore?  If that 
> were the  case, what clues would lead us to that conclusion?  I could 
> imagine  Snape suspecting or even knowing about one Horcrux.  None of 
> this is  anything I can back up with textual evidence, so it makes me  
> uncomfortable.
> 
> Your turn!
> hg.
> 
> 
> 
> Actually, one piece of supporting evidence for Snape knowing about
> the Horcruxes is his quick action in saving Dumbledore from the
> effects (or at least most of them) from the ring horcrux. I  mentioned
> it before, but could Snape have cured Dumbledore if he didn't
> know what he was working against? Especially when it was such
> a bad curse, one that left Dumbledore with that blackened hand,
> and that necessitated Snape working quickly to save him? It's
> possible, but it seems more probable that Dumbledore told
> Snape what he'd done, especially since Snape's no dummy and
> certainly could have drawn his own reasonable conclusions.
>  
> I don't know if your theory is right, and Snape told Dumbledore
> about the horcruxes long ago (though I like it), or if Dumbledore
> told Snape when Snape saved him from the ring horcrux, but it
> seems likely either way that Snape knew about horcruxes, and
> perhaps specifically knew Voldemort was making them. 
>  
> Julie 
> 
> 

good catch, Julie!  I think that Snape knew about horcruxes because he
was (and is) so much into the Dark Arts.  According to Slughorn, DD
banned that subject, but I am sure there are other ways to learn about
- outside of Hogwarts or Slughorn himself - the man is a leaky sieve
when it comes to information :)  Even a book at Hogwarts mentions that
Horcruxes "wickedest of magical inventions, we shall not speak nor
give direction".  So, for someone WHO really wanted to know, it
wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to see Snape hunting down
this information.

I don't if Snape knew about Voldemort's multiple Horcruxes or not, but
you are correct - since Snape helped DD after the ring Horcrux fiasco,
I am sure Snape knew more about Voldy's horcruxes than we are led to
believe.  I think Harry is being a bit of a prat, not confiding in
McGonagall - about the Horcruxes & all.  SHE is a member of the OotP,
afterall.  

colebiancardi