Snape and Quirrell/Voldemort

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 44150

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., millergal8 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 9/17/02 9:33:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> olivia at r... writes:
> 
> << So, wouldn't Voldemort hear Snape threatening Quirrell? Doesn't 
>  thatincriminate Snape and endanger his double agent status? >>
> 
Christy replied:
> Well, even if Snape did luck out, his days as a double agent are 
> over anyway.  my books are currently on loan so I am just going to 
> wing this so forgive me if I am off a bit somewhere.  While Harry 
>is looking into DD's pensieve, he  sees karkaroff's "trial" where he 
> is naming off other prominent DE's.  He names Snape, at which 
> point, DD stands up and announces to the room that Snape is a spy  
> for him (DD).  This statement pretty much negates Snapes 
> usefullness as a spy, considering the public (most prominently, 
> Rita Skeeter) was allowed to be present.  
> As for who V'mort meant when he referred to the traitor DE, I am 
> almost positive he meant Snape.  I am basing this on the above 
> arguement, that DD blew Snapes cover wide open, how could v'mort 
> not know that Snape had turned?  

> My question is, why in the world would DD do this?  I know the 
>hearing was  after V'morts downfall, but it still would have been 
> handy to have an "inside guy" to try and get the DE's that got  
> off.  Plus, I think that even then, DDwas smart enough to know that 
> v'mort was only temporarily gone.  
> 
> Christy

I agree. Snape's cover has been comprehensively blown. It might still 
be possible for Snape to persuade Voldemort that he's willing to 
serve him again - if Voldemort will only destroy that wretched Harry 
Potter who Snape hates so much [grins evilly and pauses to listen to 
the sound of a MAGIC DISHWASHER in the distance].

The clue why DD would blow Snape's cover is in the fine print of the 
books - when you get them back off loan you will see that Dumbledore 
says "I have given evidence *before* on this matter" and Crouch 
says "Snape has been cleared by this Council". [GoF p512 and 513 UK 
hardback]

So Snape probably had his very own trial *before* Karkaroff's trial, 
that Harry *didn't* see in the Pensieve [because it would have 
revealed too many future plot points, perhaps? :-)]. Or at the least, 
he was in such danger of Azkaban that Dumbledore was forced to reveal 
to the Ministry that Snape was actually spying for him.

In Karkaroff's trial scene [same pages] it's revealed just before 
this conversation that the Ministry was riddled with DE spies. After 
telling the Ministry, Dumbledore could give Rita Skeeter an exclusive 
interview about Snape's spying career and still not tell Voldemort 
anything he doesn't already know [grin].

Pip
(who has to get back to revising now. Darn it. HP is *much* more 
interesting).