Do the Death Eaters know Snape is with the Order?

[evangelina839]

No: HPFGUIDX 68375

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...>
wrote:

> Voldemort never said that he knew Snape "had left us."  He never
used 
> Snape's name, so we don't know who he was referring to.  Since not
all the 
> DE's at the meeting were named, for all we know Snape was there, 
> pretending to be loyal.  The relevant text from Book 4 is
deliberately vague:
> 
> "And here we have six missing Death Eaters . . . three dead
> in my service. One, too cowardly to return ... he will pay. One,
> who I believe has left me forever ... he will be killed, of course
> . . . and one, who remains my most faithful servant, and who has
> already reentered my service."
> 
> Snape could be any of those last 3, or none.

I always assumed that Snape was the one "who left forever", because
Voldemort is 
told to always know when he's being lied to and I figured he then
must certainly know 
that Snape was spying against him; but then the Occlumency came into
the picture. 
Not only does it explain how Snape could keep his double-dealing
going, but it also 
made it possible that Voldemort never found out at all, as Snape is
told to be "a 
superb Occlumens" (Lupin). And if Snape has returned to spying now
(which I assume 
is his task within the Order),
Voldemort 
could just as likely believe that Snape's as loyal as everyone else
there. So, yeah, it is quite possible that the DEs don't have a clue
about Snape's 
involvement with the Order, and pretty likely that at least Lucius
Malfoy doesn't know, 
because surely he would have told Draco and surely Draco would have
changed
his mind 
about Snape then, wouldn't he?

evangelina