[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape as spy

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 29812



--- raolin1 at hotmail.com wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hillman, Lee"
> <lee_hillman at u...> wrote:
> > It's possible as well that Snape, in a move of
> tremendous foresight,
> > presented his defection to Dumbledore's side to
> Voldemort before 
> going over,
> > in such a way as to make it appear to be a trick.
> Voldemort would 
> have
> > wanted a source of information as badly as
> Dumbledore did; he may 
> have
> > really enjoyed the irony of sending the old fool a
> "spy" who would 
> really be
> > an agent of evil. Voldy didn't need to know that
> Snape was really 
> serious
> > about defecting; only Dumbledore did. That way,
> when Dumbledore 
> announced to
> > the world that Severus was spying for the good
> side, none of the 
> DE's would
> > have been surprised--they'd have "known" that it
> was all with 
> Voldemort's
> > approval.
> 
> 
> 
> I find it odd, in this discussion, I've never once
> heard anyone bring 
> up the words Voldemort spoke to the Death Eaters
> upon his 
> ressurection: which I thought were pretty clearly
> pointed towards 
> Karkaroff and Snape.  Paraphrasing here:
> 
> One lacked the courage to come back.  He will be
> punished 
> [Karkaroff].  One, I suspect, has left me forever. 
> He will be killed 
> of course. [Snape]  Am I alone in drawing these
> connections? 

   No I drew exactly the same one, though I can see
the opposite interpretation working too.
   According to Sirius Snape was never even suspected
of being a DE, nor does anybody but Dumbledore seem to
know about his spying, *dispite* his standing up and
announcing the fact in an assembly of some two hundred
wizards and witches. Come to that nobody but Rita
Skeeter and Crouch Sr. seem to remember about Bagman's
association with DEs either. Could it be that the
members of the the tribunal are subjected to memory
spells to remove sensitive information they learn in
the course of their duties? 

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