[HPforGrownups] Secret Agent Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 41737

-Kylantyhea wrote:
<< With this is mind, do you think that Snape would have readily gone 
back to spy on Voldemort? unless he didn't know that Voldemort was 
under Quirrel's tuban. Would Dumbledore send Snape to become a spy 
under such dangerous circumstances?>>

Didn't the whole school know after it was over? I think Snape might be 
relying on being of some use to Voldemort still, as he works at Hogwarts. But 
from being under Quirrell's turban, Voldemort will probably have heard at 
some point that Snape turned spy and was working against him. 
I also think that maybe Dumbledore doesn't know that Voldemort knows about 
Snape (if he does, and I think he does), or he too is hoping that Voldemort 
can see some use in Snape being left alive and, maybe, at Hogwarts. 

Which brings me to this:

Kylantyhea again,
<< 
 If our friend Snape did go off to spy for Voldemort, then he would 
 have to give a lot of excuses to the Dark Lord and his followers to 
 allow him back into the fold, and as we know, Voldemort is not a 
 forgiving sort of fellow >>

In The Death Eaters chapter in GoF, as Voldemort is pacing round the circle 
of Death Eaters he gets to a gap big enough for 6 of them and says:

"And here we have six missing Death Eaters ... three dead in my service. One, 
too cowardly to return ... he will pay. One, who I believe has left me for 
ever ... he will be killed, of course ... and one, who remains my most 
faithful servant, and who has already re entered my service."

I've always taken the last 3, in the order they are above to be Karkaroff, 
Snape and Crouch Jr. So personally, I think Snapes time in book 5 might be a 
little short, unless he can do some very quick thinking and talk his way out 
of it.

I had been wondering if he could do a deal with Lucius Malfoy, seeing how 
Snape has looked after Draco so well in his time at Hogwarts, maybe he could 
get him to vouch for him or something. But I doubt it. 

Sara