Secret Agent Snape in OotP

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No: HPFGUIDX 76544

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severusbook4" <severusbook4 at y...> 
wrote:
> This may have been discussed before, and if it has, sorry for double 
> posting. In SS Quirrel talks of Snape trying to stop him from 
> finding the SS and thwarting him in his attempt to kill Harry during 
> the quidditch match.  He does this while Lord Voldy is attached to 
> the back of his head.  Now my question is how is Snape going to pull 
> off being a DE while he was actively trying to stop Lord Voldy from 
> coming back to power in the first book?  Lord Voldy had to hear the 
> conversations Quirrell had with Snape and Harry, and he is probably 
> pretty angry about a former DE being against him.(serious 
> understatement) IMHO I think Snape is toast, Lord Voldy is just 
> trailing him on, until his usefulness runs out, Snape must be 
> feeding him some information, just nothing very critical to the 
> OotP, just enough to keep him alive.  What does everyone else 
> think?  This has been bothering me after re-reading the SS.


There's a minority of us out here that do not think that Snape has
necessarily returned to being a DE. The evidence militates against it.
1. Snape starts working for the Order two years before Voldy falls.
    At this time, it looks as if Voldy is winning. Snape has no need
    to act as Voldys' agent, especially as:- 
2. For at least one year in that time, Pettigrew is Voldys' informer.
3. At the mass trials (GoF pensieve scene) Snape is publicly revealed
    as a baddy turned good.
4. The Quirrell affair.

Why should V. trust Snape whatever he says? Sirius in OoP -"No-one
leaves Voldemort and lives." The way V. acts, *anybody* is expendable
if he has the slightest doubt or if they don't perform as required. The way
he is depicted, he would explode at Snape saving Harry from falling from
his broom. Here was a chance to nail Potter. Snape prevented it. No 
excuses accepted. Zap!

Snape is definitely up to something, what? is a very good question,
but DE? Unlikely I think.

Kneasy