Secret Agent!Snape [Was "a question"]

[drjuliehoward]

No: HPFGUIDX 91172

<snip>> Carol:
> I do think he's the one LV thought (rightly) had left him forever. 
He
> can't be the loyal servant at Hogwarts (Crouch) or the coward who 
fled
> (Karkaroff)--those positions are clearly taken by other people. 
And he
> can't have been in the graveyard. There wasn't time to leave the
> Tri-Wizard tournament, grab a hood and robe, run to Hogsmeade,
> apparate, watch the events in the graveyard, disapparate, hide the
> mask and robe, and return to the tournament in time to help DD 
unmask
> the imposter. And he could have presented all that as a plaausible
> excuse to Malfoy, as I've indicated above.
> 
> Otherwise, I agree with you that Snape, with the help and 
knowledge of
> DD, can hide from the DEs and even from LV himself where his 
loyalties
> lie. Not all wizards could do it, but Snape is not an ordinary 
wizard.
> He's a superb occlumens, he can think like a Death Eater, and he's
> very, very intelligent. OTOH, after the events in the DoM, his main
> contact is in Azkaban and he'll probably need to work directly with
> LV. And if LV suspects that he had anything to do with the Order
> members and Dumbledore showing up, then the dangers he's been 
facing
> have just increased tenfold. If JKR hadn't told us to watch for 
him in
> Book 7, I'd be worried about losing him in Book 6. (And, yes, I do
> care very much about Snape.)
> 
> Carol, who wishes that Fred hadn't put "Secret Agent Man" into her 
head!

On Mugglenet.com, Maline (North Tower) has a couple of excellent 
essays about "The Missing Death Eater" and "Snape Versus Time" (I 
think those are the titles) that address these things.  They are 
worth the read.  Basically, she suggests that Snape was in the 
circle of DEs in the cemetary at the end of GoF and presents an 
argument for Fudge being the missing DE.

Julie