Trusting Snape

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 149327

> >>Pippin:
> > This part I don't understand. Snape can rejoin Voldemort, and
> > since nobody, Order or Ministry, has been able to find          
> > Voldemort, they shouldn't be able to find Snape either.
> > <snip>
 
> >>PJ:
> What you say could possibly make sense if we were talking about    
> anyone but Voldermort the Ungrateful but I can't help but wonder   
> exactly what you think Snape did *right* from Voldermort's        
> perspective that would make him so eager to keep him alive and    
> well?
> Yes, Snape killed that interfering old Dumbledore but that was a   
> task assigned to Draco...
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
A task Voldemort expected Draco to fail and Snape to finish.  As per 
Snape in the Spinner's End chapter, anyway.  Which is what 
happened.  Draco failed and Snape finished.  What went wrong here?

> >>PJ:
> So, Snape needlessly outted himself as a DE...

Betsy Hp:
By killing the *head* of the Order.  What possible use would a spy 
be once the leader is gone?  Especially to someone like Voldemort 
who makes sure his group is very dependent on him?  Plus, there's 
still the implication that Snape *was* following Voldemort's orders.

> >>PJ:
> ruined Voldermort's punishment of the Malfoys...

Betsy Hp:
How?  Draco failed his task.  I'm not sure why Voldemort can't use 
that as an excuse to either visit a world of hurt on the boy, or 
execute him outright.  (For this reason I suspect Draco 
will "disappear" before Snape returns to Voldemort, which *may* piss 
Voldemort off a tad, but probably won't register too high on 
his "betrayer-meter".  A few Crucios and Snape will be forgiven that 
loss.)

> >>PJ:
> and then didn't even bring the Potter brat with him when he 
> fled Hogwarts!

Betsy Hp:
Hang on, I thought you saw Snape as ESE?  How *do* you explain Snape 
letting Harry go?  He will have to explain this, I think.  But I 
think, with the chaos on the grounds and the unexpected presence of 
Order members, Snape has a fair chance of giving a believable 
story.  But if you think Snape is ESE, doesn't that mean his 
statement that Voldemort *wanted* Potter left behind and unhurt was 
a true one?  Isn't that the only way to explain why an ESE!Snape 
*would* fail to kidnap Harry?

> >>PJ:
> <snip>
> Voldermort seems like a top notch potion maker himself if that     
> cauldren scene in GoF is any indication of his skills so Snape's   
> talent becomes redundant.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
I doubt fetus!Voldemort was up for making potions in GoF, so I'm 
betting that was Peter (he of the multi skills).  And Snape is so 
much more than a potions master.  He's action guy.  He gets things 
done.  Why else is Bellatrix so threatened by him?

Snape has consistently done (as far as Voldemort is concerned) that 
which he's been assigned to do.  There was some doubt, I'm sure, 
that the double agent had been turned.  But killing Dumbledore (as 
Voldemort assigned Snape to do) should do a lot to quiet that little 
doubt.  And if Snape works it right, he may be assigned to checking 
the security around the various horcruxes.  And how beautiful would 
that be?

Betsy Hp