Snape vs. Neville, Dumbledore, Harry

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 35473

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...> wrote:
> 
> Nope, the timing doesn't work on that one.  The Longbottoms were
> tortured *after* Voldemort's defeat.  That was why the Lestranges 
went
> after them in the firstplace -- they thought the Longbottoms had 
some
> information on LV's whereabouts.

Yes, afterwards - but before Snape knew he was *defeated*, not just 
away.

>  But Snape turned double-agent before
> Voldemort's fall; Dumbledore makes a point of emphasizing that in 
the
> Pensieve scene.

"I vouch for him" - it doesn't have to mean double-agent - only that 
Dumbledore guarantees him. On the moment - nothing of the past. What 
other things is there to implicate he's a spy? The trial, of course, 
taking place after his confession to Dumbledore.