Did Snape know about Wormtail?

[Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner]

No: HPFGUIDX 15162

> Following on from the whole Sirius/Snape saga, there is something
> which has always confused me.  If Snape was a DE, one would assume
> that he knew that Wormtail was the spy - afterall, Wormtail is a
> fellow DE.

But Snape very likely had no way to know that Wormtail was a DE.  It's
stated in the books (sorry, can't remember the exact place, but I assume
it's near the end of GoF somewhere) that the DE's didn't all know each
other's identities.  This may be the reason that Snape gave an involuntary
start of surprise/alarm (and hastily covered it up) when Harry said Lucius
Malfoy was one of the DE's he'd seen with Voldemort -- Snape would have been
an idiot not to *suspect* Malfoy of allegiance to V., but that isn't the
same as knowing for sure that he was a DE.

Also, Wormtail may not have actually been an official DE -- I mean, yes, he
was working for Voldemort, but very secretly, and his true allegiance seems
to have come as a surprise to virtually everybody on both sides.
--
Rebecca J. Bohner
rebeccaj at pobox.com
http://home.golden.net/~rebeccaj