On Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at 7:59:48 AM UTC-7, Norbert Kühlthau wrote:   
   > leslie  wrote:   
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   > > Do you think it's possible that Snape believed that Malfoy, like himself,   
   > > had been tempted to the Dark side but then returned to good? When Harry   
   > > said Lucius Malfoy returned to Voldemort, Snape realized that Malfoy had   
   > > never left the Dark side?   
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   > SPOILER FROM GOF   
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   > I think we know, that Lucius left the dark side, as Voldemort says so:   
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   > "And yet you ran from my Mark, when a faithful Death Eater sent it into   
   > the sky last summer?"  said Voldemort lazily, and Mr. Malfoy stopped   
   > talking abruptly.  "Yes, I know all about that, Lucius. . . . You have   
   > disappointed me. ... I expect more faithful service in the future."   
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   > We know, that most of V's followers left their master. Barty Crouch   
   > hoped, he wouldn't forgive them.   
      
   Most of V's followers thought that he was toast and could no longer protect   
   them.  They therefore scrambled to renounce V and convince the MoM that they   
   had been Imperiused into backing Voldemort!  Karkaroff gave the MoM the names   
   of every DE he knew of    
   to get himself out of Azkaban!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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