[HPforGrownups] Re: question about SS and Snape

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 14294

Justin Raines wrote:
> 
> Another question I have been pondering along these lines is when
> Voldie possessed Quirrell in the first book, Snape seemed to be a key
> figure blocking him from carrying out his evil intentions.  ( I can't
> give specific examples, as I have loaned my friend to get him
> hooked.)  Wouldn't Voldie have it in for Snape after that.  I take it
> that when he turned double agent for Dumbledore, that the other Death
> Eaters must have found out about it.  Karkaroff at least did because
> when Harry looked in the Pensieve in GoF, he heard Dumbledore vouch
> for Snape in front of Karkaroff.  It all comes down to who Voldie
> meant when he said one will be punished and one will be killed.  I am
> assuming that Snape is the one that would be punished, because
> otherwise, if what Dumbledore sent him to do was to see Voldie, then
> he would have been sending him to his Death, and I am sure the JKR
> would do better than that if she wanted to kill Snape.  So back to
> the original point, isn't Voldie going to find out that Snape ratted
> everyone out?

I suspect he already knows, and does have a contract out on Snape
at the moment.  However, I also suspect that means that
Dumbledore was NOT sending Snape to contact Voldemort at the end
of Book IV.  I liked the idea someone came up with that Snape was
the contact for some =other= double agents, and was going to see
what he could do about activating that network again.  That's
probably sufficiently dangerous if he couldn't be sure of these
people's current loyalties, or whether V. had an eye on them too!


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>