Lily the popular girl

[toonmili]

No: HPFGUIDX 167936

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Goddlefrood" <gav_fiji at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > Toonmili: People don't like the idea of Snape being in Love.
> 
> Goddlefrood
> 
> Yes indeed, but never underestimate Peter, he is a character that
> will have some development, in my divination :)
> 
> > Toonmili: 
> 
> > Besides when Voldemort returned he said: "one has left me forever
> > and he will be killed..." Everyone agrees he was talking about
> > Snape. 
> 
> Goddlefrood:
> 
> Do they, now? Not Igor Karkaroff then, who was killed. Snape may 
> have been the one who would pay, perhaps :-?
> 
> LV fears none, or had that not been noticed either, only 
> Dumbledore. "The Only One he Ever Feared" ring a bell?
>

Toonmili:

Thank you for this yummy question.

This is what Voldemort said in GOF:

"And here we have six missing Death Eaters...three dead in my 
service. One, too cowardly to return...he will pay. One, who I 
believe has left me forever...he will be killed, of course...and 
one, who remains my most faithful servant, and who has already 
reentered my service."

Snape was not too cowardly to return: Karkaroff was the one who was 
really freaking out. Karkaroff was the one who was afraid to go to 
Azkaban. Karkaroff is the coward.

The one who returned is: Barty Crouch Jr.

So that leaves Snape as the one he believes has left him forver.

Besides Snape confirms this in HBP:

Chapter 2, Snape says:

"The Dark Lord's initial displeasure at my lateness vanished 
entirely, I assure you, when I explained that I remained faithful, 
although Dumbledore thought I was his man. Yes, the Dark Lord 
thought that I had left him forever, but he was wrong."


So there you have it, proof that Snape is the one he believes have 
have left him forever and not Karkaroff.

I also don't think that Voldemort fears Snape. He knows he is more 
powerful than Snape but at the same time, it wouldn't do much good 
to have Snape working for the Order while he has people with lesser 
abilities on his side. He's always trying to have the advantage.