Snape in the Graveyard? (Was: Re: Whys is Snape allowed to continue spying?)

[pitaprh]

No: HPFGUIDX 131593

Chris:

> Now obviously the DEs know the dead ones whom LV is referring to. 
> Karkaroff is the cowardly one, Barty JR. the loyal one, that 
> leaves Snape. 
 
Juli: 

> Actually I always thought that "The one who has left me forever, 
> he'll die" is Karkaroff, "The Coward who'll pay" is Severus, and I 
> agree that Barty of course is the loyal one.



Why does Snape have to be either the cowardly one or the one that has left Voldemort forever?  Voldemort walked by about 6 DE ( I don't have the book here and can't remember exactly) and didn't say 
anything to them.  Why wasn't Snape one of them?  We don't know that 
Snape wasn't there.  He may not have been able to apparate out of 
Hogwarts but that doesn't mean he couldn't head to Hogmeade and go 
from there.  Snape had to have known that Voldemort came back even 
before Dumbledore and before Dumbledore asked him to do whatever it 
was at the end of book 4, because the mark on his arm would be 
burning.

Pitaprh