Snape's role in the Order and a little bit of Barty jnr.

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 71661

Sydney wrote:
>... OR... dun dun dun:  is Avery Snape?  Barty Crouch Jr. has been 
suggested as a polyjuice canditate for Snape's cover, but perhaps 
it's the reformed but cowardly Avery who generously offered himself 
as a 'double'. Snape could assume Avery's role in meetings, while 
Avery curls up somewhere in protective custody.>

Now me: Snape can't be disguising himself as Barty junior, because 
Fudge was the one who gave the order to have BCj Kissed, and 
ignoring the channel of information between Fudge and Malfoy would 
be a bit too risky. Here's something else I've just thought of. 
Presumably, the Ministry in their "clap your hands if you don't 
believe in Voldy" phase have blamed Diggory's death on BCj. It seems 
to be common knowledge that Moody wasn't quite himself last year - 
as Dean Thomas observes "yeah, but he was a maniac, wasn't he?" when 
Umbridge mentions the shortcomings of the class's last DADA teacher. 
Therefore presumably the Ministry must have concocted some sort of 
story to explain how a very high-profile prisoner escaped Azkaban 
and killed a student. The entire school knows of Cedric's death, and 
therefore it must be fairly common knowledge in the WW, enough to 
warrant an article/examination in the Daily Prophet at least.  and 
yet, Sirius is still the only prisoner to have escaped Azkaban, and 
Azkaban security is still tight, and etc. Am I missing some sort of 
essential plot comoponant here, or just complicating things for 
myself?

SC wrote: 
> Several people have suggested that Snape will assume another 
identity to return to the Death Eaters, but I have a major problem 
with this... In GoF during the scene in the graveyard, LV knows 
EXACTLY who is who, despite the fact that they are masked and 
cloaked. He also knows EXACTLY who isn't there. I can't believe 
PolyJuice would fool him for a second.>

Me again:
I agree with you, but I wonder if Snape is a sufficiently 
accomplished Occulemens to just pull it off? After all, he must have 
done a similar sort of thing once before, when working as a double 
agent the first time round. And it's Lupin, a member of the Order, 
who says to Harry "Snape is a superbly accomplished Occulemens" 
(ahh, always complimentary and courteous, Lupin <g>.) - would 
members of the Order necessarily know of each other's skills to this 
sort of extent if the skills in question weren't directly linked to 
the Order's work? I can imagine him saying something 
like "Dumbledore says he's a good Occulemens," but the high-falutin' 
praise there seems to presume direct knowledge.

Apologies if my quotes are slightly off, but I'm bookless in office 
at the moment.
Kirstini