Snape's Power and Spying (WAS: Physical Harm from an Expelliarmus)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 44229

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "erisedstraeh2002" 
<erisedstraeh2002 at y...> wrote:

> There's been some recent discussion about whether Snape 
will go back  to Voldemort as a spy for Dumbledore.  I agree with 
those who say  that Snape can't go back to his old spying role 
since he's already  been exposed as a spy publicly.  However, I 
do believe it's possible (likely?) that he might be 
double-crossing Dumbledore and is actually  a spy for 
Voldemort.  I think Voldemort is referring to Snape in the 
graveyard in GoF when he says there is "one who I believe has 
left me  forever - he will be killed, of course."  If Snape is actually 
double- crossing Dumbledore, Voldemort could be protecting 
his cover with this statement (is this one of the pieces of 
"misinformation" that's  part of MAGIC DISHWASHER, 
perhaps)?<<

Or maybe, Snape is loyal to Dumbledore, but can  convince 
Voldemort that he's been double-crossing Dumbledore all 
along. Snape could plead that he had no way of knowing that 
Voldemort was behind Quirrell's attempts to kill Harry or steal the 
stone. He can also point to all he's done to throw suspicion on 
Black (which may include earlier history we haven't heard as yet.) 

 We don't really know how public the trials were. Harry sees Rita 
Skeeter only at Bagman's trial. It would have been difficult for the 
Ministry to arrest and try someone as prominent as Bagman 
secretly, but that doesn't mean that Karkaroff and Snape himself 
couldn't have been. 

In support of this, Sirius didn't know that Snape had been a 
Death Eater (unless he was lying to Harry, which I doubt)  though 
he seems to have tried to find out all he could about the 
whereabouts of former Death Eaters and suspects. 

Pippin