Number of Years Teaching at Hogwarts -- ?Significance

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ellejir" <eberte at v...> wrote:
Snape said 14 years--so he apparently came to Hogwarts around the 
time or immediately after Lord V's attack on Harry and his family.  
This timing seems very significant.  Do you think that he was on the 
side of the DEs or acting as a spy already for the Order at the time 
of Harry's attack?  
>

I definately think Snape was already a spy.  I think Dumbledore said 
that Snape turned spy at the height of Voldemort's power.  After the 
attack on Harry, Vodemort's power was broken.  I know he said that 
Snape turned spy before Voldemort's downfall(GoF US ed. pp 591).

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