My Review of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

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"Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:


> I realize that they omitted his sending
> the Order to the MoM in OoP, which I think
> is an unfortunate oversight.)

I don't see what's so important about having that in the OoP movie, it tells us nothing about Snape's character. Voldemort's plan was to
trick Harry to go to the ministry, but when Snape showed up Harry was
already caught by Umbrage so Snape figured the plan had failed, it probably never occurred to him that Harry would manage to escape and make it all the way to the ministry. With the plan canceled anyway it couldn't hurt to tell the Order of the Phoenix what Harry said, in fact he had to if he wanted to remain a spy. Dozens of people heard Harry talk to Snape about padfoot and sooner or later The Order would hear about it and wonder why Snape didn't tell them immediately.

So if Snape was a spy for Voldemort he would tell the Phoenix order what Harry said, if Snape was not a bad guy and spy he'd tell the order too, so we learn nothing.

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