PS/SS chapters 16/17 - post DH look

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 181149

Cassie wrote:

> As for DD being a legilimens...so is Snape and apparently he didn't
know Voldemort was in the back of Quirrell's head (if we believe what
he told Bellatrix and Narcissa on Spinner's End). <snip>

Carol responds:
I wouldn't take anything that Snape says to Bellatrix in "Spinner's
End" at face value. He's telling her the same cover story he told
Voldemort, keeping a lot of information to himself. It would be
interesting, now that we have DH, to determine how much is half-truth
and how much is out-and-out falsehood. I'd say that his supposed
suspicion that "the unworthy Quirrell" was stealing the stone for
himself was among the lies, whether or not he knew or suspected that
the changes in Quirrell's manner and behavior resulted from
Voldemort's possessing him. (The nervousness and stuttering predate
the possession, as we see from Harry's encounter with Quirrell in the
Leaky Cauldron. But if you combine them with his sudden desire to wrap
his head in a purple turban, I'd say that Snape didn't need DD to tell
him to keep an eye on Quirrell. As Quirrell said, he was suspicious
from the first. The staff members knew perfectly well that the traps
they were setting up were to protect the Stone, and once Quirrell set
loose a Troll as a diversion, Snape knew for sure that he was trying
to steal it. And since he tells Quirrell to consider "where [his]
loyalties lie," I'd say it's pretty clear that he didn't think that
Quirrell was trying to steal the Stone for himself.

> ~Cassie - who hopes that encyclopedia she's been hearing about will
contain some VERY indepth answers and character analysis

Carol, who hopes that the encyclopedia doesn't spoil all our fun by
telling us by substituting what will of necessity be canon for all our
theories, analysis, and speculation