Lord Voldemort the Happy Chappy

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 143625

In the series so far there has been one point at which LV was 
described as happy. This was just around January of Harry's fifth 
year and Harry felt it strongly.

The implication given was that LV had succeeded in breaking out his 
loyal Death Eaters from Azkaban and this had made him ecstatic. In 
my view this does not stack up and I have a small theory as to why 
Voldemort was really in such a good mood.

First let me say that with what we have been led to believe of 
Voldemort, and coupled with his speech in the graveyard at the end 
of GoF, it seems that he would expect to easily break out his 
followers and would not be especially surprised when they rejoined 
him, let alone happy. He did, after all, state that the dementors 
were his natural allies and with that in mind he must have known 
that his loyal Death Eaters would get out.

My little thought regarding LV's happiness is that he was happy 
because Snape was to give Harry Occlumency lessons and he saw his 
opportunity to probe Snape's loyalty. It has been stated elsewhere 
on this list (can't point to it, sorry) that LV was the one who got 
into Snape's mind to see the cringing child etc.

It makes sense that LV would be pleased to get an opportunity to 
gauge Snape's true loyalty and that rather than the implied reason 
is why he was happy.

Thoughts?

Goddlefrood (who was disappointed by the latest cinematographic 
outing for the boy)