Snape the double agent

[Keith Fraser]

No: HPFGUIDX 7878

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Nathan" <duo at d...> wrote:
> >This has undoubtedly been said already, but if Dumbledore is using 
Snape as
> >a double agent against Voldemort, he would surely not want him in 
the DADA
> >position.  IMO, Snape would find it more difficult to persuade 
Voldemort
> >that he was prepared to betray Dumbledore if he was teaching the 
students
> >Defence Against The Dark Arts rather than Potions.  That said, I'm 
sure
> >Snape would like nothing better than to teach DADA and the
> >students may have
> >picked up on this without realising why Dumbledore keeps
> >overlooking him for
> >the post.
> 
> Speaking of Severus the double-agent, isn't Voldemort on to him 
already? I
> refer to book I, when Snape is threatening Quirrell (with the 
disembodied
> Voldemort possessing the back of Quirrell's turban).
> 
> Nathan

Precisely! Snape CANNOT act as a double agent post-GoF! Voldemort 
knows he went over to the good side! Lots of fanfics have Snape doing 
this, and it really annoys me. When he made his speech in the 
graveyard, Voldemort said there was one Death Eater who had left him 
forever, and who would be killed. That must have been Snape (the one 
too scared to return was Karkaroff).