Both Spies...

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 109057

CMW
"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? 
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? "


DuffyPoo:
Cleared up by Karkaroff, "You must understand that He Who Must Not Be Named operated always in the greatest secrecy ... he preferred that we -- I mean to say, his supporters --- and I regret now, very deeply that I ever counted myself among them --- we never knew the names of every one of our fellows -- he alone knew exactly who we all were."  

If LV had a reason to keep Snape secret from Wormtail, or vice versa, they wouldn't have known of each others' existence in the DEs.  Also, we're told that Snape left the order before LV's downfall, how much before, I don't think is ever stated.  He may have been 'out' before Wormtail got 'in.'

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