HBP: Why I am 98.6% certain that...

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 146472

@m. wrote:
> > In GoF p. 679 (US) when DD, McGon, and Snape burst into the room
and stun Moody/Crouch Jr DD walks over to C's stunned body and "Snape
followed him, looking into the Foe-Glass, where his own face was 
still visible, glaring into the room." [raeangelavhs interprets this
quotation as evidence for DDM!Snape <snipped>]
> 
The Other Cheryl responded:
> I actually had a slightly different interpretation of that. I'd say
it's obvious that Snape is his own worst enemy.

Carol notes:
If that's the case, wouldn't it mean that McGonagall and Dumbledore
were their own worst enemies as well? The glass shows the three of
them approaching Fake!Moody's office; he's the current owner of the
Foe Glass, and he has stated earlier that it reveals his enemies. (He
says he's not in danger till he sees the whites of their eyes.) I
think that Snape's reflection in the Foe Glass, along with his actions
against Fake!Moody, his courageously revealing his Dark Mark to Fudge,
and his going off on an obviously perilous secret mission for
Dumbledore, which they have clearly planned together ("If you are
ready, if you are prepared") is some of our strongest canonical
evidence for DDM!Snape. And we also see for the first time DD's real
concern, even fondness, for Snape. After Snape leaves, it's several
minutes before he can even speak. Clearly he fears for snape's safety
and success. Maybe he knows, even then, that this is the beginning of
the end for both of them. After GoF, and again after OoP, when Snape
sends the Order after Harry, there was no doubt in my mind where
Snape's loyalties lie.

HBP, on the other hand, does make Snape appear to be his own worst
enemy. But I don't think that's the meaning of the Foe Glass, and it
helps to remember that earlier evidence as we read HBP. Or, at least,
it does for me.

Carol