Who was the Useful Spy?

[Felicia Rickmann]

No: HPFGUIDX 35420

Who was Dumbledore's spy?  One of the "useful spies" mentioned by Cornelius Fudge during the discussion about Sirius Black, betrayal, and the Fidelius Charm at The Three Broomsticks - PoA.  The spy who tipped Dumbledore off and enabled Lily and James Potter to go into hiding when Voldemort was looking for them?  

 

Conjectures.....  What if this * Useful Spy * was Snape in situ as a card carrying Death Eater?  As Dumbledore's inside man with Lord Voldemort and the DE's, Snape would be running a big risk.  There is no mention in the canon of Snape being involved in the trials of captured DE's which he would have been if he was involved in an official MOM DE hunt.  So the project could have been Dumbledore's alone - particularly with a MOM mindset that avoided independent and inherently risky action.  As Dumbledore is compelled to start organising the fight without MOM help at the end of GoF this would be a reasonable assumption.

 

As this was some time before Harry grew up and became a nominal "Dursley" this would give Snape plenty of time to abscond, for as yet un-revealed reasons, from the DE's and settle at Hogwarts.  This trust in Snape might, perhaps, refute the accusations of vampirism currently doing the rounds, as, if you were Albus Dumbledore would you realistically let anything near a school full of children that - without its daily pinta - turned into the equivalent of an addict out to find its next fix?  

 

Just an idea, of course.


Felicia 


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