[HPforGrownups] Trial of Severus Snape - UV

[Michell Thitathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 141448

 Magpie wrote:  "But Narcissa is going to *tell* Snape what the plan is until he *stops* her by saying he already knows.  He doesn't need to take a UV to get Narcissa to talk.  She shows up at his house with the intention of telling him exactly what's going on and asking for help. He could just as easily let her tell him the plan and then said she shouldn't have told him, but as it happened he already knew everything she told him anyway."  <snip>  

Elyse added: "I've been reading the chapter again, and I noticed the second time around, that it is *Snape* who offers to *help* Draco." <Snip....heavily> 

CH3ed: My interpretation of the episode is that Bellatrix was the complicating factor in the scene, and Snape may not have known the detail of the plan at all. Narcissa was willing to tell him everything, but Bella wasn't and Snape thought that if he didn't ease Bella's suspicion she would tell it to LV. He was just throwing Bella off her suspicion of him and his volunteering to help was a maneuver to find out the plan (he had the idea that LV was trying to send someone to kill DD, but he didn't know who and how).... in a very slippery and spinney way.