Snape the spy

[tigerlily at quincymail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18161

> > > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> 
> wrote:
 I got it.  It just came to me. It's so simple it's perfect. Of 
course.  There's no other explanation. The task Snape is sent on at 
the end of GoF is this: he is to brew up a batch of Polyjuice Potion 
and then transform himself into Harry as a decoy for Voldemort.
What if he made up a batch of potion using hair from the soul 
sucked 
> > Barty Crouch Jnr and then went to see Voldemort posing at his 
most 
> > loyal servant.
> 
> The problem is that very little time elapses between when they 
found 
> out that Barty Crouch has been sucked soul-less and when Dumbledore 
> says to Snape "You know what you have to do."  Whatever it is, it 
has 
> to be something they have planned out in advance.  I have been 
> puzzling over this for months and I can not come up with a theory 
> that fits all the circumstances.
> 
> --Joywitch


I always assumed Snape would take up his previous job: a spy.  He 
could go back to Voldemort, claim he was "biding his time, waiting 
for a sign of Voldemort's return" as Malfoy did.

Of course, this would present a few problems.  He would have to 
explain why he was against Quirrel, why he didn't kill Harry, etc.  

Another thing that I've been wondering about.  Someone said in one 
book that "Dumbledore had a number of useful spies, and one of them 
tipped him off that Voldemort was after the Potter," or something 
along those lines.  

Wouldn't it be interesting if that spy were Snape?  That would have 
been quite a moral delema for him... Almost like Malfoy saving Harry.

Any thoughts?

*Lily Solstar