Secret Agent Snape

[subrosax99]

No: HPFGUIDX 76856

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "acoteucla" <acoteucla at h...> 
wrote:
> --- 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.

I'm starting to think Snape isn't really spying on VD. As you rightly 
point out, there is too much evidence out there that Snape is with 
Dumbledore. I can't imagine what he would be doing, but the prospect 
of him spying directly on VD is starting to seem much more unlikely. 
To tell you the truth, I don't know what the hell is going on anymore.

Allyson