Dumbledore and Snape that night WAS: Re: GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 182370


> Carol responds:
 The lightning spell and Snape's uncharacteristic
> terror ("don't kill me!"), as well as DD's contemptuous treatment of
> him makes it seem as if he's known for some time that Snape was a 
DE,
> but I don't see how that fits with the Order members not knowing.

Potioncat:
I suppose it's possible that Snape didn't identify himself in the 
request for the meeting. He could have identified himself as someone 
who has important information about LV's plans, or some such.

If nothing else, I've now read several plausible explanations for the 
meeting on the hill. 


>Carol: 
> As for Trelawney's thinking that Snape was applying for a job, we 
know
> that she has been teaching for not quite sixteen years (implying a
> later than usual hiring date for a surprise job opening), whereas
> Snape has been teaching for fourteen years (no "almost"). So he 
would
> have had no reason to be eavesdropping on job interviews even if he
> really thought that Trelawney could give him "tips" (I don't think 
so,
> Sybil!) in, say, late October nearly two years before he actually
> applied for the DADA position on LV's orders. 

Potioncat:
If LV had planned all along for Snape to go to work at Hogworts, he 
may have been consistently applying for the job over several years. 
But I agree, it's just as likely that Sybil was wrong. It seems that 
LV had people in the MoM and was trying to get Snape into Hogwarts, 
so he may have been keeping Snape's activities out of sight. DD could 
have suspected, but not known. Or perhaps the Order only went after 
actively bad DEs. If that makes sense.
> 
> 
> Carol, who hopes that JKR's vaunted encyclopedia includes a detailed
> chronology, complete with the dates of the eavesdropping, the
> encounter on the hillside, Snape's job interview and every other
> incident mentioned in my rambling and incoherent post
>

Potioncat, who thinks JKR would need to refer to the Lexicon to 
complete all that. And that wouldn't be sporting, would it?