[HPforGrownups] Re: Two Plot Problems

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No: HPFGUIDX 187689

>> alla:
>> Is Snape's reputation with the DEs one of being _capable_, or has he
>> cultivated a reputation of being rather incompetent in managing
>> destruction? The latter would make sense (if not for Snape's ego),
>> but Voldemort has a high opinion of him.
>
> Zara:
> I would say the evidence favors the view that other DEs would have  
> regarded Snape as more than merely competent at the Dark Arts/ 
> duelling. Consider for example their reaction to his appearance on  
> the Tower in HBP:
>
>> HBP:
>> Snape said nothing, but walked forward and pushed Malfoy roughly  
>> out of the way. The three Death Eaters fell back without a word.  
>> Even the werewolf seemed cowed.

alla:

I'm very intrigued as to how he has managed this without doing any  
real harm. I suppose Bellatrix questions him to *some* extent in HP6,  
and most death eaters are protrayed as not very intelligent, but it's  
quite a feat.