ChapDisc: DH 18, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 182753

> Alla:

> What I am also saying that personally I do not see any correlation 
> between Snape's standing being improved and giving that 
information. 
> For all I know Snape's standing is already as good as it can get. 
For 
> all I know Voldemort trusts ANY of his fellow DE only as much as he 
> so desires, no matter what they do and Snape is way ahead already 
by 
> killing Dumbledore.

Magpie:
I don't see that either. How much better does Voldemort need to see 
Snape after he's killed Dumbledore himself and there's now no reason 
for him to an insider in the Order? It's one thing to feed Snape 
information to convince Voldemort that he's a helpful spy on the 
Order, but he's no longer that in DH anyway and has no big reason to 
have insider information. I can't imagine who else would have been 
Headmaster at Hogwarts anyway.

Plus there's the fact that nobody in the Order knows it's a trap. 
Only Dumbledore knows this. Had everybody known it was really a trap, 
that the decoys were not just a layer of protection but that they 
would without doubt all be being chased by DEs who will kill the 
escort and capture (and probably later kill) the fake Harry, would 
they have offered up so many kids to the plan? How many Weasleys are 
Molly and Arthur devoting to this mission without knowing what the 
real mission is?

-m