This moment

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 175398

Ceridwen: 
> > The whole world stopped to hear that Snape loved Lily, and 
Voldemort 
> > apparently had a heart-to-heart with him about other women 
afterwards.
> > 
> > "He desired her, that was all," sneered Voldemort, "but when she 
had 
> > gone, *he agreed that there were other women, and of purer blood, 
> > worthier of him --*" (page 740 US, asterisks for attention, not 
> italics)
> > 
> > Snape agreed - so Voldy must have talked with him.
> > 
> > Weird.

Potioncat:
> But, when she had gone---so had Voldy. So when is this heart to 
heart 
> supposed to have happened? I think Voldy is not telling the truth 
in 
> this case.

Ceridwen:
I think he was.  He was too sure, too confident, in my opinion.

Not that this doesn't mean LV can't be lying through his teeth, 
projecting some idealized Snape that never existed.  It's just 
that "he agreed" line.  It lends veracity, to me.

The heart-to-heart could have happened before he went, and that's the 
part he's lying about, or it could have happened when Snape returned 
at the end of GoF.  Or any time after, really, but the most obvious 
to me would be the end of GoF when he apparently made a bunch of 
other excuses and explanations.  Voldy might even have accused him 
of "leaving... forver" because of Lily, which would then bring on 
the "heart on the sleeve" comment to Harry from OotP.

Heh.  I think I've got it all mapped out now, to my satisfaction, at 
least.  It was a lot better than the strangely warped timeline I'd 
been suffering under, where LV and Snape agree that there are purer 
blooded witches out there, then Voldy sends Snape to teach at 
Hogwarts.

By the way, I didn't really catch this comment and start mulling it 
over until Sydney noticed it.  To be fair, she did place Snape in his 
thirties, while I went off on some tangent.  I was more noticing the 
whole world stopping just to listen to Harry playing Dumbledore to 
LV's Harry, and getting an earful of LOLLIPOPS for their patience.

Ceridwen.