Snape's Predicament

[Dr M M]

No: HPFGUIDX 1244

From: "Arthur Weasley" <estesrandy at yahoo.com>

>Anyway, I was reading book one again and thought about Professor 
>Snape.  Quirrell ( who has Voldemort in back of his head) tells Harry 
>that Snape was preventing him from finding the Sorcerer's Stone and 
>knocking Harry off the broomstick in the Quidditch match.  Since 
>Voldemort hears this conversation between Quirrell and Harry, he must 
>know that Snape is no longer a loyal Death Eater.  How on earth is 
>Snape supposed to be an undercover spy in Voldemort's camp if 
>Voldemort already knows about this?  Snape was not present for this 
>conversation in book one and may not know anything about it.  Snape 
>appears to be in one heck of a predicament.

I've thought about this one too :)  In the first place, I'm quite sure
that Dumbledore would have told Snape about it, so Snape would have had
time to come up with an explination, but even so, I'm sure Snape would be
able to come up with this explaination ;)

My theory is this: Snape can explain away his actions by saying he was
doing it to look good in front of Dumbledore.  He wanted Dumbedore to
trust him even more than he did already.  He obviously knew Quirrel was
evil but wasn't there on the pivetol night when Quirrel went into the
tunnel.  He also did his best to ensure that Harry didn't go into the
tunnel after Quirrel to stop him.  And to explain for his attempts to
save Harry he could say it was to repay his debt to James.

I can see Voldemort believing this.  What little we've seen of him has
implied to me that Voldemort has a bit of an ego.  I don't think
Voldemort could believe someone would consciously betray him *while* he
was at his full strength.  I suspect Voldemort will punish Snape (quite
painfully) as he did some of the other "fallen" Death Eaters and then let
him back in.  And I also think Lucius Malfoy would support Snape, which
could partially explain why Snape shows such blatant favoritism for
Draco.  I'm convinced both he and Dumbledore were planning on the
possibilty that Voldemort would return one day.

Now, to write my long dissertation on Snape I've been planning on writing
due to the interesting Snape conversations going on lately :)

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