GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look/ Snape and Harry redux

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 182226

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jayne" <jaynesmith62 at ...> 
wrote:
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> Carol wrote> 
> snip
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> Even Voldemort contrast the> two, with Karkaroff referred as "one 
too 
> cowardly to return" and Snape
> > as "one who, I believe, has left me forever" (again quoted from
> > memory. IMO, Voldemort was right on both counts.
> > 
> > >
> Do you think that Voldemort suspected that Snape was playing a 
double 
> game when he made the quote that you mention above. I was confused 
> about it as I thought he knew Snape had returned to him and that 
he and 
> Snape had planned that Snape would stay at Hogwarts as a spy
> 
> Jayne confused on this snowy Easter Sunday

Leah:  Prior to Godric's Hollow, Voldemort believed Snape was his 
spy at Hogwarts, even though Snape was already DD's man.  After 
Voldemort's disappearance, Snape remained at Hogwarts, something 
Bellatrix, for one, regards with suspicion in 'Spinners End'.  Then 
QuirrelMort encounters Snape at Hogwarts, where he/they see Snape 
actively working to protect the Stone for Dumbledore, and working 
against Quirrel.  At the end of POA, Wormtail returns to Voldemort.  
We don't know what information Wormtail has been able to pick up as 
Scabbers, but he may have picked up that Snape prepared the potions 
to revive the petrified 'mudblood' students in COS.  He will 
certainly know that in the Shrieking Shack, Snape tried to arrest 
Sirius, whom Snape at that time believed to be Voldemort's 
supporter.  Most importantly, Voldemort failed to honour any promise 
he gave to Snape to spare the life of Lily Potter.

So, by the time Voldemort makes that remark, in the graveyard, 
before Snape's return, Voldemort has every reason to suspect that 
Snape has 'left him forever'.  Snape then returns to Voldemort some 
two hours later. It is only, we presume, due to Snape's brilliance 
at Occlumency and his eloquence, that he is able to convince 
Voldemort that he remains his spy at Hogwarts.  We see Snape 
similarly try to persuade Bellatrix in Spinners End,telling her 
Voldemort has accepted his explanations and we know from DH that 
Snape was also able to persuade Voldemort that Snape had forgotten 
Lily in favour of women of 'purer blood'

Leah