[HPforGrownups] Both Spies...

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 109047


CMW

Presumably, around this same time Peter was betraying the Order,
becoming a spy for VM. A double agent like Snape, but on the opposite
side. Now, how is it that these two wouldn't have spotted each
other?
If Peter were waltzing up to VM with Order info, wouldn't Snape,
as a
trusted DE, be privy to this inside information? And wouldn't he
then
turn around and inform the Order that they had a spy on their hands?
Possibly Snape /is/ where DD's "Spy Theory" initially
came from. But
why wouldn't Snape have known it was Peter? Why would VM have kept
that a secret?

In the same light, why would Peter, being a member of the Order, not
tell VM that Snape was spying for DD? This just hurts my head. I will
buy that maybe VM had no reason for Snape to know about Peter.

K

Voldemort is not going to let anyone know about his little spy, for very
good reasons. I mean OK Voldemort is evil, but we have plenty of evidence
that he's not stupid (well pre-1981 anyway, he needs a refresher course on
the evil overlord list nowadays). If you have someone whose main asset is
that no one knows about them - you keep it that way. Replace the name
Voldemort with the name Dumbledore and it answers your question about Snape
too. I seriously doubt Snape was turning up at Order meetings. I don't get
the impression in PoA that Sirius and Remus even knew he was a DE let alone
Dumbledore's spy amongst the DEs.

K