Secret Agent Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 76852

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "subrosax99" <subrosax at e...> 
wrote:
> I just did a quick re-read of GoF, and something caught my eye that 
I 
> missed the first time. At Karkaroff's hearing (or whatever that 
was), 
> Karkaroff gives out the names of several people that he knows to be 
> DE's. One of the names was, of course, Snape. Then Dumbledore says 
> something to the effect of "Snape is no longer a DE, he turned spy 
> for us at great personal risk." Obviously Karkaroff heard this. 
> Wouldn't he have turned around and shared that information with his 
> fellow DE's in Azkaban?
> Though I don't recall Karkaroff being mentioned in OoP, it's safe 
to 
> assume he's still on the loose. What if he uses his information 
about 
> Snape to save himself from LV?
> On top of this, wasn't it kind of stupid for Dumbledore to mention 
> the fact that Snape was a spy in front of Karkaroff? 
> Sorry if this has all been mentioned before. (And I'm sure it must 
> have been.)

There is WAY too much evidence laying around that Snape is a double 
agent for Dumbledore.  There are his actions against Quirrell (whom 
LV was possessing), there's the umpteen million people who have heard 
Dumbledore say Snape is trustworthy, there's the fact that he's a 
member of the Order of the Phoenix and there's probably a spy within 
the order....  LV HAS to know that Snape is a double agent.  That 
leaves the following possibilities:

1. Snape isn't really spying against LV.  JKR has just written it in 
such a way that it SEEMS like that's his job in the Order.  But she 
hasn't come right out and said it.

2. Snape is pretending to be a double-double agent.  He returns to LV 
with the wonderful news that he is within Dumbledore's inner circle, 
but LV is his true master.  All the "spy-work" he did for Dumbledore 
a long time back was about unimportant stuff, so as to gain DD's 
trust.

3. Snape really IS a double-double agent.