Snape as Neville's teacher / JKR's sexy men roll call

[justcarol67]

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Dana wrote:
> <snip> He never puts his own life at risk once and to be honest I
believe he notified the Order but also notified LV that he did it for
LV to show up at the DoM and covering his own butt. Tell me how else
did LV know the DoM ordeal went sour for him to go in himself? Mhhh
interesting thought isn't it. <snip>

Carol responds:

Since you don't count spying for Dumbledore "at great personal risk"
or facing a werewolf about to transform and a supposed murderer or
returning to Voldemort who believes he's a traitor or taking a UV
which, if broken, will kill him as putting his own life at risk (for
whatever motive), I have nothing more to say on that score except that
all of those incidents are canonical.

However, "how else did LV know the DoM ordeal went sour" can be
defiintively answered, and it has nothing to do with Snape. Perhaps
you've forgotten the scar connection between Harry and Voldemort:
That's how Voldemort knows that the Prophecy orb has been shattered:

Harry tells Bellatrix, "There's nothing to summon! It smashed and
nobody heard what it said, tell your boss that--." Bella says he's
lying and then starts screaming to Voldemort not to punish her. Harry
feels terrible pain in his scar but says, "Don't waste your breath! He
can't hear you from here," to which Voldie replies, "Can't I, Potter?"
And after a moment, he adds, "So you smashed my Prophecy? No, Bella,
he is not lying. I see the truth looking at me from within his
worthless mind. Months of preparation, months of effort, and my Death
Eaters have let Harry Potter thwart me again" (OoP Am. ed., ellipses
eliminated).

What summoned Voldemort? Not Snape, who certainly could not have known
that the Prophecy orb was smashed. It was the mind link, the scar
connection, which allowed him to hear Harry's words and sense their truth.

Carol, suggesting that points supported by canon might be more
effective than rhetorical questions in analyzing a scene from a
literary work