Confusuion-spies/lies

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 58844

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> Also the Snape as a spy theory, if our assumptions about the future
> are right, hinges on Snape being a double agent. That would mean 
that
> DE's with a need to know, would have known that Voldemort sent Snape
> to be a spy for Dumbledore. Let's face it, Dumbledore has spies in
> Voldimort's organization, and we know that Peter was a spy against
> Dumbledore. In a spy game like this, double agents would seem a very
> reasonable assumption.
> 
> Snape makes one grand gesture by divulging Voldemort information, 
with
> Voldemort's knowledge and permission, to Dumbledore and that get's 
his
> foot in the door. After that, his trickle of information is of the
> 'too little too late' although accurate variety. Just enough to
> maintain his credability. 
> 
> So, if Snape is really working for Dumbledore, I guess we could
> consider him a triple agent. A DE who has enteted the service of
> Dumbledore as a spy agianst Voldemort, who Voldemort thinks is 
spying
> for him against Dumbledore, but in reality is a spy for Dumbledore
> against Voldemort. 
> 
> So I don't think the limited public knowledge that Snape was a spy
> works against him. The DE's think he was pretending to be a spy, but
> actually assume he is still with Voldemort. The general wizard world
> think he was a spy against Voldemort. This puts Snape in the perfect
> position to go back to Voldemort and claim the samething everyone
> else, like Lucius, claimed, has that he was just biding his time and
> maintaining his cover waiting for some sign that Voldemort was back.
> 


Me:
I wonder...
The more I think about this the more sense it makes that Snape's 
trial/interrogation/whatever was *not* secret. That it was, in fact, 
highly publicized--at least to those who count. (And only JKR knows 
who they are.)
If Snape was publicly "cleared by this council" he has the WW on his 
side saying, "what a nice boy he is coming 'round like that" ~while 
at the same time~ he has the DE old-boys yukking it up saying, "Well 
played, Severus! Pulled the wool right over their eyes! How *did* you 
manage Dumbledore?"
That would also explain why Karkaroff was so hell bent on turning him 
in...maybe he was trying to tell them Snape had gone right back to 
Voldemort AFTER being cleared by the council. Karkaroff was taken out 
still yelling about Snape, wasn't he? I don't have the book here.

Mel, looking at this secret trial idea in a different light