ivRe: [HPforGrownups] Re: Sorry. The Sudden Movement.

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 56256

From: hagrid

 Well, I have a theory, we know DD had a "number of spies", Snape was one of
them, but maybe there were some others among the DE who returned to LV that
night. Maybe Snape reacted to the name of one of them, he must know them, he
must know who the other spies were because they probably worked together.
Just a thought, though.

From: Me

Why would Snape know who the other spies are/were?  That would be an act of
sheer idiocy on Dumbledore's part.  If Snape were found out, captured, and
tortured, he could endanger all of those other spies and seriously hurt
Dumbledore's side.

Which reminds me of something I was just thinking about today.  If
Dumbledore's group serves more as a resistance movement, something
underground, as opposed to something a little more officially sanctioned,
then I wonder if he had his people grouped into little cells.  That way, if
one cell is exposed, they could only expose a couple of people and not the
entire group.  Karkaroff in his trial maintained that he did not know who
all the DE's were.  This may not be true, but I could see it being true if
only because of the same reason, and good reasoning it was, since Karkaroff
was spilling his guts about them.  I do get the impression that the DE's DID
know each other based on their meeting in GoF and Voldemort's ease in using
their names, but it's still a point to bring up.  Unless there are certain
DE's that all of them knew, and others that were always present but whose
identities were unknown, which would explain how Snape and Pettigrew could
both be DE's but Snape not know that Pettigrew was the traitor.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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