Snape as spy was Re: Snape as baddie

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 111583


> Pippin:
> 
> Voldemort has to make sure that any Death Eaters who know 
> that Snape was a Death Eater believe that Snape's been faithful 
> to Voldemort all along. LV can cherish his private doubts, but he 
> can't allow Snape to be seen leading a normal life as a known 
> defector.
> 

Finwitch:

Something that came up to me: Snape is a traitor, only question is in 
_who_ he's betraying.

1) He betrays Voldemort for Dumbledore. (mind you, I think he _did_ 
join DEs earlier, but left them for some reason). Dumbledore gave 
such testimony in court for him, and is constantly telling Harry he 
trusts Professor Snape.

(BTW, speaking of that 'professor' - Snape set the level of formality 
between himself and Harry during the first lesson, with his snapping 
Potter! so Harry calls him Snape. And Dumbledore - well, he's the one 
who _made_ Severus Snape a professor by giving him a teaching job! I 
think he'd like very much to hear some student to approve of this by 
calling him professor... He at least _was_ a Death Eater, and I think 
some of those unsavory Owls complain about that... Like from 
Neville's gran, perhaps?)

2)He betrays Dumbledore for Voldemort

He _does_ support the desire Tom Riddle had: a name wizards would 
fear to say.

"Saving" Harry: not very effective, in any case. Why didn't he 
just 'accidentally' knock Quirrell over if he truly was attempting to 
save Harry, as Hermione did? But, in this pretext: if he wants to 
keep Dumbledore's trust, he must at least _pretend_ to be watching 
over. And, with him being the Potions Master, he knew Voldemort would 
need him alive for that potion made in the graveyard...

3) He's betraying both and playing his own game.


In *any* case, he is a traitor - and Sirius could never accept that. 

Finwitch