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karoff, didn39t i?
”the dark lord39s itial displeasure at y teness vanished entirely, 1 assure you, when i exped that 1 reaed faithful, although dubledore thought i was his an yes, the dark lord thought that i had left hi forever, but he was wrong”
”but what e have you been?” sneered beltrix ”what eful ration have we had fro you?”
”y ration has been nveyed directly to the dark lord,” said snape ”if he chooses not to share it with you —”
”he shares everythg with !” said beltrix, firg up at once ”he calls his ost loyal, his ost faithful —”
”does he?” said snape, his voice delicately flected to est his disbelief ”does he still, after the fias at the istry?”
”that was not y fault!” said beltrix, fshg ”the dark lord has, the past, entrted with his ost precio — if ci hadn39t —”
”don39t you dare — don39t you dare b y hband!” said narcissa, a low and deadly voice, lookg up at her sister
”there is no pot apportiong b,” said snape soothly ”what is done, is done”
”but not by you!” said beltrix furioly ”no, you were once aga absent while the rest of ran danrs, were you not, snape?”
”y orders were to rea behd,” said snape ”perhaps you disagree with the dark lord, perhaps you thk that dubledore would not have noticed if i had joed forces with the death eaters to fight the order of the phoenix? and — five — you speak of danrs you were facg six teenars, were you not?”
”they were joed, as you very well know, by half of the order before long!” snarled beltrix ”and, while we are on the subject of the order, you still ci you cannot reveal the whereabouts of their headarters, don39t you?”
”i a not the secret-keeper i cannot speak the na of the pce you understand how the enchantnt works, i thk? the dark lord is satisfied with the ration i have passed hi on the order it led, as perhaps you have guessed, to the recent capture and urder of ele vance, and it certaly helped dispose of siri bck, though i give you full credit for fishg hi off”
he cled his head and toasted her her expression did nor ften
”you are avoidg y st estion, snape harry potter you uld have killed hi at any pot the past five years you have not done it why?”
”have you discsed this atter with the dark lord?” asked snape
”he tely, we i a askg you, snape!”
”if i had urdered harry potter, the dark lord uld not have ed his blood to renerate, akg hi vcible —”
”you ci you foresaw his e of the boy!” she jeered
”i do not ci it i had no idea of his pns i have already nfessed that i thought the dark lord dead i a rely tryg to exp why the dark lord is not rry that potter survived, at least until a year ago ”
”but why did you keep hi alive?”
”have you not understood ? it was only dubledore39s protection that was keepg out of azkaban! do you disagree that urderg his favorite student ight have turned hi agast ? but there was ore to it than that i should red you that when potter first arrived at hogwarts there were still any stories circutg about hi, ruors that he hiself was a great dark wizard, which was how he had survived the dark lord39s attack deed, any of the dark lords old followers thought potter ight be a standard around which we uld all rally once ore i was curio, 1 adit it, and not at all cled to urder hi the ont he set fool the castle
”of urse, it beca apparent to very ickly that he had no extraordary talent at all he has fought his way out of a nuber of tight rners by a siple bation of sheer ck and ore talented friends he is diocre to the st degree, though as obnoxio and self-satisfied as was his father before hi i have done y utost to have hi thrown out of hogwarts, where i believe he scarcely belongs, but kill hi, or allow hi to be killed front of ? i would have been a fool to risk it with dubledore close at hand”
”and through all this we are supposed to believe dubledore has never spected you?” asked beltrix ”he has no idea of your true allegiance, he trts you iplicitly still?”
”i have pyed y part well,” said snape ”and you overlook dubledore39s greatest weakness: he has to believe the best of people i spun hi a tale of deepest reorse when i joed his staff, fresh fro