Snape as past/future spy WAS Re: Question about Snape and Quirrell

[isiscolo <isis@windom.netrack.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49737

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "firekat482 <firekat482 at y...>" 
<firekat482 at y...> wrote:

> Basically, my question is this: How can Snape (and Dumbledore, for 
> that matter) feel confident that Voldemort will accept Snape into 
> the fold again, when he didn't even seek Snape's help while looking 
> for the S/P Stone - at a time when he was very weak and needed all 
> the help he could get?
>  
> IMHO, I don't think Snape can go back and be completly accepted. At 
> the very least, Voldemort *has* to have his suspicions about 
> Snape's loyalty. Personally, I feel strongly that Voldemort knows 
> exactly where Snape stands, and any attempt by Snape to return would 
> mean certain death after a very long torture session. 

Exactly my point.  I'd also like to add that Snape has convinced
Dumbledore of his loyalty and return to the light.  Voldemort
is scared of Dumbledore (or at least respects his power) and 
will be unlikely to believe that Snape could have fooled 
Dumbledore.  This also argues strongly against the evil!Snape
scenario, as I can't imagine Snape fooling him either!

> If Snape *does* return as a spy in the following three books, then 
> JKR is going to have to do a lot of explaining (at some point in 
> the last books) about how exactly that was possible. 

I don't think that's going to happen, partly because in GoF
(the pensieve scene) Dumbledore specifically says that Snape
had been a spy for the good side.  I just can't see Voldemort
as being that credulous.  It's been done, it's not going
to fly again, despite Harry's wondering about it in the
last few pages, which I think is misdirection rather than
foreshadowing, and a way to show how Harry is still not
completely trusting of Snape's motives.  (Yeah, I could be
wrong, in which case I will join the throng demanding a
plausible explanation).

As to Steve who says, "well, what use will he be, then?",
don't forget that he is a powerful wizard, talented and
highly knowlegeable in arcane potions-making, and that he
knows and understands many of the bad guys.  The 
polyjuice-and-spy scenario is a possibility, since Snape 
would have the knowledge of how to behave correctly among the DEs.
In fact, now that I think about it, I really like this idea.

I.
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