Secret Agent!Snape [Was "a question"]

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 91142

Annemehr:  More troubling for Snape trying to pass as a loyal DE 
would be what Pettigrew could tell Voldemort about what happened in 
the Shrieking Shack. I looks bad that Snape tried very hard to 
capture the supposed DE Sirius Black. Perhaps this along with, 
possibly, some bad reports of him from Crouch!Moody in GoF, could 
make Voldemort believe Snape had betrayed him. On the other hand, I'd 
bet Snape could talk his way out of the Shrieking Shack suspicions by 
saying that what he heard before being knocked out was convincing him 
that Pettigrew was there and that Snape was going to try to help him 
escape."

Voldemort doesn't impress as the kind of mastermind that lets himself 
be talked out of much.  Snape, even though he has Occlumency, 
wouldn't be accepted unless he lowered the barriers so that Voldemort 
could look directly into his mind.

In the Muggle world of espionage, Snape is completely "blown," and 
would never be able to "go operational" again.  Snape's work is done 
some other way. Nothing he gleaned directly from LV could be trusted, 
given the high probablity it's disinformation designed to trap the 
Good Guys and smoke out Snape himself.

 Someone suggested he may have a relationship with someone like 
Narcissa Malfoy (a relative, after all) who is giving him 
information.  That's plausible, even though there's no direct 
evidence.  He may be working with other "doubles" who are hedging 
their bets.

If that's true, what happens if Narcissa is "blown?"  She might 
suffer a grisly death, and where does that leave dear Draco, who 
seems to care for her?

Jim Ferer

The odds are you won't live to see tomorrow -- Johnny Rivers