[HPforGrownups] A number of useful spies?

[Susanne Schmid]

No: HPFGUIDX 28783


 
  "Cindy C." <cynthiaanncoe at home.com> wrote: 

<The conventional wisdom is that Snape is a spy for Dumbledore.  But 
<in PoA, "The Marauder's Map", Fudge says "Not many people are aware 
<that the Potters knew You-Know-Who was after them.  Dumbledore, who 
<was of course working tirelessly against You-Know-Who, had a number 
<of useful spies."

<I wonder who else might be one of Dumbledore's "number of" useful 
<spies, as "a number" would indicate to me that there should be at 
<least three.  It seems that a spy would be most useful if he/she 
<could pose as a DE or was otherwise close to a DE.  Could Pettigrew 
<have convinced Dumbledore that he was spying on Voldemort, when in 
<fact Pettigrew was (as we now know) really spying on Dumbledore?  


I really doubt that. And wouldn't he have mentioned it in the Shrieking Shack? IMHO, that would be too much plot-twisting. 

Anyway, I don't think that all of Voldemort's followers and supporters are necessarily DEs- just think of the scene in GoF, they are *all* there, six are missing, and they are standing in a circle round Harry and Voldemort- there can't be that many of them, I'd say somewhere between 35 and 40 and among them I don't think that there were other spies or moles. But for the kind of power Voldemort had established, you need a lot more than 40 people, and he surely had a very large number of "common soldiers". So, for a raid, there might hvae been one or two DEs in command, the rest was soldiers who maybe didn't know as much as their superiors, but could give away some less important information.


<Could Narcissus Malfoy be a spy, leaking pillow talk to Dumbledore?  
Ludo Bagman?  Any other possibilities?

Cindy


Narcissa- very unlikely. Even if she hates Lucius- which is merely an assumption and not corroborated by any canon evidence, I would doubt that Lucius talks politics with her, more so as it seems that she isn't a DE (or she would be at her husband's side in the GoF scene). 

Ludo Bagman- yes, definitely. That harmless, boyish behaviour might dissimulate something very unpleasant- but then, maybe this is exactly what JKR wants us to believe- I'm having a brain cramp right now.

Susanna/pigwidgeon37


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