Return of Snape the spy

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 23494

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., prefectmarcus at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Indigo" <indigo at i...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Deeblite <deeblite at h...> wrote:
> > > At 12:54 AM 8/2/01 +0000, you wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > Circle. It would also explain why Voldemort didn't behave as 
> if
> > > >Snape
> > > > > was one of his servants when he was inhabiting Quirrel.
> > > > > Feel free to pick holes in this, as usual
> > > > >
> > > > > Pippin
> > > >
> > > >Occam's Razor
> > > >
> > > >JKR is seldom that convoluted.
> > > 
> > > JKR has never started to write the concluding chapters of a 
> series 
> > before, 
> > > either.
> > > 
> > Oh, I don't know:
> > 
> > I consider the Pettigrew-framed-Sirius-and-cut-off-his-own-finger-
> > turned-into-a-rat-got-adopted-by-Percy-then-handed-down-to-Ron-and-
> > chased-by-Crookshanks-before-being-revealed-as-the-Death-Eater-who-
> > betrayed-the-Potters ...*gasp*  pretty convoluted.
> > 
> > Indigo
> 
> Okay, let me put it another way --
> 
>  "Have you ever hear of a plan where so many things could go wrong?"  
> (CoS Ch12)
> 
> I can very well believe Pettigrew's story above because it just 
> happened without anybody planning it.  Life does get complicated 
> sometimes.  I draw the line at convoluted schemes.   
> 
> So howabout pseudo-Moody, you ask?  I don't know.  How Bart Jr 
> managed to hood-wink Dumbledore for an entire school-year is beyond 
> me.
	
	Me too, but I figure Dumbledore was glad enough to have the 
functional Moody he remembered  instead of the paranoid one, that he 
failed to follow up on his doubts. Wishful thinking is not confined to 
Muggles. 
	As for Snape's disguise, wishing to conceal his involvement in the 
DE's from someone else, his family  or his employers perhaps, he might 
have joined the outer circle pseudonymously, been promoted unexpectedly 
and decided to continue the deception, to protect his family, say. 
Convoluted, but not beyond the reach of JKR's imagination. We've 
certainly learned that in the wizarding world things are seldom what 
they seem.

Pippin