Snape deceived Narcissa and Bellatrix
Jul. 20th, 2005 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fpbAt least about his dwelling. He does not, as Bellatrix think, live in the house where they met. Page 28: "The place had an air of neglect, as though it were not usually inhabited." A pretty broad hint, especially where the same novel shows us how a wizard of power and experience (such as Horace Slughorn, who taught Snape) can easily take over vacant Muggle homes and make them seem his own. Narcissa was too upset to pay attention, and as for Bellatrix, let's face it, she is not the sharpest knife in the box, is she? As for why he should have deceived the women about his address, I guess we will find out in the next novel.
There is another passage that suggests deception somewhere. We agree that Snape essentially drew the story of the plot from Narcissa and Bellatrix by judicious manipulation, and probably knew nothing of it. When he says that he knew of the plot because he was one of those closest to the Dark Lord's counsel, he is not only pushing his luck, he is contradicting Dumbledore's statement that "You will hear many of his Death Eaters claiming that they are in his confidence, that they alone are close to him, even understand him. They are deluded. Lord Voldemort has never had a friend...." Snape, surely, whatever his position with respect to Dumbledore, is under no such delusion, but is manipulating Narcissa's belief that he is. He even tells her that "if he had not known about the plan, she would have been guilty of great treachery," which is nonsense, since - as Bellatrix was trying to get her to understand - the treachery was there whether or not he knew anything. And Narcissa falls right into it.
There is another passage that suggests deception somewhere. We agree that Snape essentially drew the story of the plot from Narcissa and Bellatrix by judicious manipulation, and probably knew nothing of it. When he says that he knew of the plot because he was one of those closest to the Dark Lord's counsel, he is not only pushing his luck, he is contradicting Dumbledore's statement that "You will hear many of his Death Eaters claiming that they are in his confidence, that they alone are close to him, even understand him. They are deluded. Lord Voldemort has never had a friend...." Snape, surely, whatever his position with respect to Dumbledore, is under no such delusion, but is manipulating Narcissa's belief that he is. He even tells her that "if he had not known about the plan, she would have been guilty of great treachery," which is nonsense, since - as Bellatrix was trying to get her to understand - the treachery was there whether or not he knew anything. And Narcissa falls right into it.
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