Secret Agent!Snape [Was "a question"]

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91205

> Jim wrote--
> <snip> Someone suggested he [Snape] may have a relationship with
someone like Narcissa Malfoy (a relative, after all) who is giving him 
information.  

 
Cindy:
> I've often wondered whether Snape was married to a DE.  After all,
didn't JRK say that some of the staff were married, and that would
become important later?  If he were, he'd have a strong witness for V
that he did in fact support him.

Carol:
To my knowledge, Snape and Narcissa aren't related unless the Snapes
are rather distantly related to the Blacks and are not on the part of
the tapestry that Harry and Sirius looked at. (It goes back about a
thousand years, IIRC, and must be very complex, so if Snape is a
pureblood his family connections are probably there somewhere. Or
Snape could be related to Narcissa by marriage, with the family
connection through the Malfoy side, which seems probable though
there's no way to prove it.) But Narcissa is the person Kreacher
confided in and she gave her information to her husband, who in turn
gave it to LV, so I don't think we can trust sweet Narcissa or that
she would be Snape's contact. Whether or not he communicates directly
with LV, I think Malfoy is his main contact. They appear to be on good
terms and Malfoy would know a lot more about the DE's activities than
Narcissa considering that he is (or was) in LV's inner circle. 

If Snape was married, I don't think it would have been to a DE. It's
much more likely that DEs (or LV himself) killed his wife, which would
be a very good reason for him to switch sides and for LV to distrust
him. (I don't believe that Snape was present in the graveyard or that
Fudge was the missing DE. I do believe that he has accounted for his
absence to Lucius, who has passed that information on to LV, but I've
already discussed those views in another post.)

So, to reiterate, I don't think Snape's contact is Narcissa, I don't
think his wife (if he had one) was a DE, and I think the witness who
testifies to his loyalty is Lucius Malfoy. 

But that father of his (Snape's) was a Dark Wizard for sure and may
well have been a DE. (Sorry, Kneasy. I don't think the narrator would
have described the father as "a hook-nosed man" if it were Snape
himself. Harry recognized Snape the teenager in the Pensieve, and he
would have recognized Snape the adult (whom he sees every day of the
school year) in that memory. Admittedly, he assumes that Snape's
memories are of his own childhood, but I think in this case, it's a
valid assumption.)

Carol