Snape, Quirellmort question...

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 108891

NearlyheadlessRyan:
> a thought/question occured to me: Snape suspects Quirell of trying 
> to get at the Sorcerer's Stone and keeps confronting him late at 
> night in the halls and forest about it. As we come to find out, 
> you-know-who has taken up residence under the turban and is 
> controlling Quirell. 
>
> Now, skip ahead to OOP, if Snape really is spying for The Order again, 
> wouldn't Voldemort remember Snape's part in trying to stop him from 
> getting ahold of the Stone? Wouldn't he know that Snape's loyalty 
> lies with Dumbledore? and therefore want Snape disposed of? Surely, 
> Quirell being destroyed didn't erase V's memory as well?
> I'd love any thoughts that anyone cares to share.


Now Head-on-Shoulders Yblitzka:
That's been bugging me too. It may be that Snape explained himself 
with "I was acting," and being an accomplished Occlumens, would have 
been able to lie to Voldemort, but I don't know how LV would buy 
that. That's one reason why I don't think Snape is the "deserting DE" 
mentioned at the end of GoF (the "one who... has left me forever"). 
LV says matter-of-factly that the deserter will be killed. If Snape 
is the deserting DE, how on earth can he be a spy working with the 
DEs? Wouldn't one of them, or LV, kill him on sight? Surely LV has 
made it known to them who he thinks the traitor is!

If Voldemort does remember Snape's behavior in PS/SS, and Snape 
hasn't properly explained it, then it would make sense that he is the 
deserter, since LV would be almost certain he had defected to DD.

Just some rambling thoughts,
More Q's than A's, I'm afraid,
~Yb