actually more about professor snape....
i'm generally not that sharp when it comes to following the subtleties of a story - bea's normally a lot better than i am. but having decided to work through all 5 harry potter books in order, right after each other, i've been trying to figure out snape - whats he about, and i think i'm getting to it.
for a long time i couldnt work out why he seems to be a blatant death-eater (mark an' all) yet dumbledore would trust and defend him.
then, at the end of hp4, when voldemort returns and gathers the remaining death-eaters, the 2 that are missing, are described, as one who has run away (karkarov) and one at hogwarts who wil be killed (snape).
so when voldemort lost it 13 years or previously, and all the death-eaters went into hiding etc, snape obviously found himself taken in by dumbledore at hogwarts.
i'm guessing that having an ex-death-eater that cant go back to voldemort (for fear of death) in the order is a pretty useful thing to have - which i'm guessing is something to do with the secret stuff that snapes been doing since the end of hp4.
which also allows him to hate harry and sirius etc, whilst still being tied to dumbledore ands helping harry with occlumency etc.
but then i s'pose there'll come a point when snaspe really has too choose between dumbledore/ order of the phoenix/ hogwarts etc and being head of slytherin house - its good having him currently positioned in slytherin to stay close to malfoy, crabb etc - keep your friendas close, your enemies closer. snapes is reluctantly in debt to dumbledore.
sorry if all that's obvious to everyone else.
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