Snape's DE past (was Re: Snape and the Edinburgh Festival )

[tonks_op]

No: HPFGUIDX 111162

> > Neri wrote:
> >  
> > < Why did DE!Snape change sides? This is one of the greatest 
> > mysteries in the books (Lexicon Steve, do you have it on your 
list?). 
> > I tried to round up the usual suspicions. I'm not really happy 
with 
> > any of them, but I added my personal scoring:
> > 
> > <neat list of options snipped for the sake of length>
> > 
> > Did I miss any theory? Which would you prefer? >
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Tonks replies:
Here is an idea.. what if Snape was on Dumbledore's side all along? 
And LV thinks he is a spy for HIM.

Or if Snape was really a DE, maybe because he is very intelligent, 
LV and other treated him the same way that James and Sirus did when 
he was in school. Maybe LV didn't appreciate Snape's intelligence 
and that just got to Snape after awhile. Snape could only take so 
much "leadership" "do as I say" sort of thing from someone who was 
not his intellectual equal.

Or maybe Snape is not on either side.. he appears to both sides to 
be on theirs?

Tonks_op