[HPforGrownups] Re: Both Spies...

[Michal]

No: HPFGUIDX 109477

At 09:07 PM 8/8/04, you wrote:
>Carol responds:
>.....But I think Snape
>was already teaching at Hogwarts, hired at the beginning of the term,
>when the Potters were murdered on October 31. He might, however, have
>sensed a change (or changes) in the Dark Mark that alerted him that
>something was terribly amiss and alerted Dumbledore that way. One way
>or another, I think he's connected with telling Dumbledore the news
>and that's why Dumbledore trusts him. But I don't think Snape knew
>that Peter was a spy, much less the Secret Keeper.

Michal comments:
If (very minuscule "if") Snape is a double agent whose loyalties are with 
DD and Voldemort is unaware of this long-ago shift in loyalties, it seems 
to me that Snape's being widely known as a DE would be unlikely. After all, 
as a teacher at Hogwarts, he spends most of his time on campus and would 
not often be able to instantly apparate to Voldemort's side when called. I 
would imagine they have another way to set up meetings when Snape's absence 
from school would go unnoticed.

Regarding Pettigrew, either Snape must not have seen him in suspicious 
circumstances or he would have told DD OR Snape was unaware that the 
Potters were in danger. We have canon that he knew that Pettigrew was 
friends with Potter and company.

As for Pettigrew being aware of Snape's double role, either he never saw 
Snape with Voldemort, or he did see them together but hadn't yet figured a 
way to use the information for his own advantage. Pettigrew is not the type 
to volunteer information unless it gets him something he wants at the 
moment. It would be an interesting plot development if Wormtail rats on 
Snape to Voldemort.