HP Approaches the Magical World

"Yes, yes, the spirit is commendable."

Snape said in a dry voice,

"Of course, you're not much use to him while you're in prison, but it's certainly a good gesture—"

"attitude!"

She screamed, looking a little crazy in her rage.

"While I suffer from dementors, you hide out at Hogwarts, comfortably playing Dumbledore's favorite!"

"Not really," said Snape calmly, "he wouldn't give me the Defense Against the Dark Arts job, you know.

He seemed to think that would bring me down again... lure me back to the old ways. "

"Is that the sacrifice you made for the Dark Lord? Can't teach your favorite subject?"

She sneered, "Why have you been there, Snape? Still spying on Dumbledore for a master you believed dead?"

"Maybe not,"

Snape said, "But the Dark Lord is glad I didn't give up teaching: when he comes back, I can give him sixteen years of information about Dumbledore, rather than endlessly reminiscing about the tragic situation in Azkaban." Come, this is a more valuable meeting gift..."

"But you stayed—"

"Yes, Bellatrix, I stayed."

said Snape, showing impatience for the first time.

"I have a comfortable job, why go to Azkaban and go to jail?

You know, they were rounding up the Death Eaters.

Dumbledore's protection saved me from prison, such a convenient condition, I don't want to use it for nothing.

I repeat: the Dark Lord didn't complain that I stayed, and I don't understand why you're talking nonsense.

I think the next thing you want to know is, "

He pressed on, and raised his voice a little, as Bellatrix made an obvious gesture of interrupting him,

"Why did I prevent the Dark Lord from getting the Philosopher's Stone is an easy question to answer.

He didn't know if he could trust me. He thought as much as you did that I had gone from a loyal Death Eater to Dumbledore's lackey.

He was in a miserable state, very weak, sharing a body with a mediocre wizard.

He didn't dare expose himself to a former supporter in case that supporter denounced him to Dumbledore or the Ministry of Magic?

He didn't believe me, and I'm so sorry.

Otherwise, he could have made a comeback three years earlier.

At the time, all I saw was the greedy, incompetent Quirrell trying to steal the Philosopher's Stone, and I admit, I did everything in my power to stop him. "

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Bellatrix's lips moved, as if swallowing a particularly nasty pill.

"But when he came back, you didn't come back immediately, and when you felt the Dark Mark burning, you didn't rush to him—"

"That's right. I didn't go back until two hours later. I went back at Dumbledore's orders."

"Follow Dumbledore's—"

"think about it!"

Snape was impatient again,

"Think about it! After waiting for two hours, in just two hours, I promise that I can stay in Hogwarts as an agent!

I made Dumbledore think that I went back to the Dark Lord to obey his orders, so that I could keep reporting information about Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix!

You think about it, Bellatrix: in those months, the Dark Mark became clearer and clearer, and I knew he was coming back, and all the Death Eaters knew it!

I have plenty of time to think about where I'm going, to plan what I'm going to do next, like run away like Karkaroff, don't I?

"I explained to the Dark Lord that I had always been loyal to him, even though Dumbledore thought I was his.

After listening to my explanation, the Dark Lord's dissatisfaction with me for being late disappeared without a trace.

Yes, the Dark Lord thought I had left him forever, but he was wrong. "

"But what role have you played?"

Bellatrix asked sarcastically, "What useful information have we gotten from you?"

"My information came directly to the Dark Lord," said Snape, "and since he didn't tell you about it—"

"He'll tell me anything!"

Bellatrix was furious: "He said I was his most loyal, most reliable—"

"Really?" said Snape, changing his tone slightly in disbelief. "Is he still saying that after that defeat at the Ministry?"

"It's not my fault!" said Bellatrix, blushing. "In the past, the Dark Lord entrusted me with his most precious possessions—if it wasn't for Lucius—"

"How dare you—how dare you say it's my husband's fault!"

said Narcissa in a low, menacing voice, looking up at her sister.

"It's useless to find out whose fault it is," Snape said flatly, "what has to be done has been done."

"But you didn't do anything!" said Bellatrix angrily. "Yeah, the rest of us were risking our lives, and you were out there again, weren't you, Snape?"

"My orders were to stay in the rear."

Snape said, "Don't you agree with the Dark Lord's ideas, do you think that if I join the Death Eaters and fight the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore will not notice?

And - pardon me - you say you're taking risks... you're really dealing with six teenage kids, aren't you? "

"You clearly know that soon half of the Order of the Phoenix will join!"

Bellatrix roared,

"Also, since it comes to the Order of the Phoenix, you still claim that you can't reveal where their headquarters are, do you?"

"I am not a keeper of secrets and cannot name the place.

I think, you should understand how that magic works, right? The Dark Lord is pleased with the information I have passed on to him about the Order of the Phoenix.

As you've probably guessed, my intelligence led to the recent arrest and murder of Emmeline Vance, and undoubtedly helped in the solution of Sirius Black, though in the end, you deserve the credit for his life. "

He tilted his head and raised his glass to her. Her expression didn't soften in the slightest.

"You're avoiding my last question, Snape.

Harry Potter, you could have killed him at any time during the past five years. You didn't do it, why? "

"Have you discussed this with the Dark Lord?"

"He...recently, we...I'm asking you, Snape!"

"If I kill Harry Potter, the Dark Lord cannot be reborn in his blood, making himself invincible—"

"Dare you say you foresaw that he was going to use that boy?"

"I didn't say that, I didn't know anything about his plans, I just confessed that I thought the Dark Lord was dead.

I just wanted to explain why the Dark Lord was not sorry to see Potter alive, at least until a year ago..."

"But why did you let him live?"