A couple of little theories!

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Rebecca Hillary"
<rebeccahillary82 at ...> wrote:
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> First of all, in GoF;c33 Voldemort says that his most faithful
> servant has already entered his service, is at Hogwarts and it was
> through his efforts that Harry was in the graveyard at all. So it's
> Snape? That's what you think reading that. Yet in GoF;c35 Barty
> Crouch Jr says that he was the one who did everything. This is under
> the influence of the Veritaserum, so it has to be true. Yet Snape is
> in the room while Barty takes said truth serum, and it is always
> possible that Snape (who is quite capable of casting spells
> wordlessly) could have had him under the Imperius curse, couldn't he?
> Well, no, because Snape wasn't in the room when 'Moody' told Harry he
> was the one who put Harry's name in under a different school, that he
> gave him the clues, and turned the cup into a portkey. We also know
> that if JKR has to tell us anything really important it is said in
> dialogue by Dumbledore or Hermione. Hermione very frequently and very
> insistently keeps telling us that 'Dumbledore trusts Snape', as does
> Dumbledore himself. So what I see here is incontrovertible proof that
> Snape cannot possibly be working for Voldemort, and is therefore not
> evil. (And I'm not just saying this as a lifelong fan of Alan
> Rickman, because I like him best as baddies!)
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This is my first post in a long while, so I hope I did everything right.
  In regards to Snape's allegiance, in GoF there is one thing that I
think is, if not incontrovertable still very good, evidence that Snape
is a good guy.  The Foe-Glass.  It shows the enemies of whom ever is
in possession of the mirror, and if I may quote the american ed.:
"Harry, still staring at the place where Moody's face had been, saw
Albus Dumbledore, Professor Snape, and Professor McGonagall looking
back at him out of the Foe-Glass."  And:
"Snape followed him, looking into the Foe-Glass, where his own face
was still visible, glaring into the room."  Pg. 679, Am. Paperback Ed.

Now, some might argue that Snape was indeed, at that time, an enemy of
Voldemort's servant, but changed after he went back to his old master.
 However, later on in the book, DD says to him, "You know what I must
ask of you."  To which he replies, "I do."  He also talked to DD about
the Dark Mark.  It had been growing clearer all year, both he and
Karkaroff knew V was coming back.  He would have had plenty of time to
choose sides.  If he was still on V's side, he would not have shown up
in the mirror.  I do not believe that he could have faked his
allegiance to the mirror, because mirrors, in the books, are very
powerful, and cannot be fooled.  I.E. the Mirror of Erised.  I believe
that JKR uses mirrors to reflect the true nature of things.  So, Snape
is a good guy in my book, vindicated by the Foe-Glass.  By the way, I
apologise for the rambliness of this post and if this has been brought
up before.

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