Snape, **SPOILERS??** Options

[moose]

After re-reading the GoF I have found some very interesting hints as to why Snape is acting with the Order, not the Death-Eaters.


If you look @ pg 651 in GoF it is the scene where Voldemort is talking to the DE's in the graveyard he says 6 are missing. 3 dead, one too cowardly to return (Karkaroff), ONE WHO HE BELIEVES HAS LEFT HIM FOREVER (SNAPE??) that will be killed, and his most faithful servant who is @ Hogwarts and is responsible for Harry being there(crouch).

Then near the end of the book in the hospital wing Dumbledore says this to Snape: "Severus, you know what I must ask you to do. If you are ready....If you are prepared..." Snape says "I am" While looking paler than usual and his cold, black eyes glittering strangely.


It is obvious that Dumbledore wants him to go and act as a double again. In the beggining of HBP Snape tells Lestrange that Voldemort trusts him. Since Snape is so good @ occlumency he might have been able to hide the fact that is really with the Order from him and said that he had been waiting for his return while staying at Hogwarts.



That's why I think Snape is still good.

[WickedWitchOfThe...]

Ahhh, I was waiting for someone to say something about the phoenix flying out of the fire. Dij will disagree with you that dd is *now* dead. She thinks that was a kinda re-birth. I know when she sees this she'll give us her explanation.

LOL! Well, you already know my thoughts about what the phoenix means, Baty. And I know what Dij's thoughts on it are as well. But since no one else here does, and I have yet to see it around, I'll post what I think.

On Jo's site, she has said that "Members of the Order use their Patronuses to communicate with each other. They are the only wizards who know how to use their spirit guardians in this way and they have been taught to do so by Dumbledore (he invented this method of communication)." and "Dumbledore's Patronus is indeed a phoenix."

DD's Patronus is a Phoenix. Okay, that's clear. But, I noticed the words "spirit guardians" and that really caught my interest. I do believe that it was DD's spirit guardian that we saw leaving the tomb. And between that, and the one instance we are told the pics in the Headperson's office are of the dead headpeople (after DD's death), I do believe he is dead and gone.