More evidence for DDM!Snape

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 170616

colebiancardi wrote:
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> Also, I have always wondered about the foe glass - is it showing the
true enemies of the owner of said glass or the perceived enemies (they
think they are, but they truly aren't).  Does the foe glass work off
of true ownership - which begs the question, did Moody's foe glass
belong to the Fake!Moody or the Real!Moody?

Carol responds:
I think that, like everything else in the room from the trunk and
Invisibility Cloak to the disabled Sneakoscopes, it belongs to the
real Moody, but since you can't disable a mirror (it has to reflect
*something*), Barty Jr. Confunded it as he did the Goblet of Fire,
causing it to show his own enemies (otherwise, it would have been of
no use to him). Obviously, the real Moody's unConfunded Foe Glass
wouldn't show Dumbledore or McGonnagall, and Fake!Moody's Foe Glass
wouldn't show Harry because Harry is no threat to him personally (and
he apparently doesn't see Harry as a real threat to Voldemort,
either--he's sending him to Voldie so his blood can be used to restore
Voldemort to his body and then Voldie can finish him off). Dumbledore,
McGonnagall, and Snape together act as Fake!Moody's enemies, rescuing
Harry and revealing Barty's identity, along with forcing him to reveal
the details of his wicked plan. (Yes, DD is in charge, but he needs
his assistants, particularly Snape. And they enter the room with the
intention of exposing and thwarting the imposter even if none but DD
actually suspects his true identity.)

It can be argued that Snape is Fake!Moody's enemy simply as "a Death
Eater who walked free," but I think it's more than that. For one
thing, that's not sufficient reason for Snape to want the imposter's
identity exposed and his plan (belatedly) thwarted or for Barty Jr. to
perceive Snape as a threat. (Fake!Moody wants *Harry* to perceive
Snape as a threat, possibly the person who placed his name in the
Goblet, as we discover in the scene with Harry in his Invisibility
Cloak on the stairs, because he's trying to draw suspicions away from
himself, but I think he also suspects Snape of being genuinely loyal
to Dumbledore. Quite possibly, he' informed Voldemort of his
suspicions via eagle owl, which would partially account for Voldie's
belief that Snape has left him forever. Just my opinion and not an
actual FoeGlass!Snape argument.)

As the original poster to this thread pointed out, JKR takes care to
refer more than once to Snape's reflection in particular, and this
incident is followed by Snape's providing Winky and the Veritaserum,
showing Fudge his Dark Mark to prove that Voldemort is back, and going
off with a pale face and glittering eyes to tell his prepared story to
Voldemort. I think it's an important clue rather than a red herring.
At any rate, that scene cemented my view that Snape was Dumbledore's
man through and through before I'd read that phrase.

Carol, noting that Harry sees the reflection with his eyes but is too
 traumatized (and too biased against Snape) to ponder its significance