Justice to Snape WAS: Re: Werewolves? There Wolves!

Ceridwen ceridwennight at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 23 12:47:38 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 170643

Julie:
Thus Snape's thought process might have anything from 1.
"The Dark Lord will no doubt ignore this, since prophecies
are idiotic anyway, but I'll stay in his good graces since
he sent me specifically to spy" to 2. "Hmm, someone may in
the future be a threat to the Dark Lord, so this information
will help him come up with a game plan to protect himself
*should* that threat materialize" to 3. "This must refer to a
baby who will soon be born, and no doubt the Dark Lord will
believe this Prophecy fully and will want to immediately
kill this helpless baby and his family instead of waiting
around to see if the kid grows up to be some sort of threat.
Not that he could ever kill the Dark Lord...AS IF!!!" (Snape
only heard part of the Prophecy as far as we know, remember).

Ceridwen:
Or, he could just have thought, "That mentioned the Dark Lord - I 
should (or "I am on orders to...") report it to him."

TANGENT: Which brings me to a thought.  If all of LV's followers are 
on orders to tell him when they overhear people talking about him, 
could that be the reason people are afraid to speak his name?  
Followers report that Witch Grundy said Voldemort should rot in 
Azkaban, and LV sends someone out to do her in or terrorize her, with 
the Dark Mark above her house after.  Whoever she was talking to 
remembers that she said such-and-so about LV, and tells the 
authorities when they investigate.  Sooner or later, people will know 
that if you mention Voldemort by name, his followers will come after 
you.  Better not to mention the name.

And this could also be the immediate reason Trelawney was hired.  She 
didn't say Voldemort, but she did say Dark Lord.  I know people get 
by on "You-Know-Who" and "HWMNBN", but she spoke about him negatively 
(the one with the power to vanquish the dark lord).  Even if Julie's 
number one was correct and Voldemort doesn't believe in prophecies, 
the idea of someone being able to vanquish him would give opponents 
hope.  At that point, he was winning, and part of that was the 
validated terror people felt at the mention of his name.  Terror 
gives a sense of hopelessness.  Hope erases it.

And, if Snape did not report hearing mention of LV's title, he might 
have gotten into trouble with his boss.  I presume at this point a 
Snape who was honestly a DE, and who very well might not have 
realized that Voldemort would go after a child.  That's something so 
heinous that it can't even be imagined until it has been done, in my 
opinion.  A loyal follower who would see that as horrible, would not 
believe the person he chose to follow to be capable of that.

Ceridwen.





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