Snape Question

[chinaskisnotes]

No: HPFGUIDX 104560

Cathy <cldrolet at s...> wrote:
> In GoF, Chap 30, "The Pensieve" DD says "Severus Snape was indeed 
> a Death Eater.  However, he rejoined our side before Lord Voldemort's 
> downfall and turned spy for us, at great personal risk.  He is now no
> more a Death Eater than I am."  
> <snip>  
> Of course he was a member of the Order...left to be a DE, then returned 
> to the Order. The "rejoined our side" is the second chance FakeMoody
> was on about in "The Egg and the Eye" chapter of GoF: 'Course Dumbledore 
> trusts you [to Snape],' growled Moody, 'He's a trusting man, isn't he?  
> Believes in second chances.'  
> 
> What we don't know yet, from the books at any rate, is why he joined the 
> Order in the first place (seems like an odd thing for Snape to do, to me), 
> left the Order in the second place, and why he left the DE's in the third 
> place.  


If Moody in GoF, who is a fake Moody, knows of this 'second chance', and 
this second chance is a switch of sides, then Voldemort knows about this 
already. Snape is going to have quite a job, Occlumens or not, making him 
forget this kind of double crossing (this is why it would be a great risk, 
I suppose, but too much double crossing would make him suspect on both 
sides). Is it possible Snape's job is to buddy up to Lucius Malfoy, not 
necessarily Voldemort? Forge a trust with Lucius over the years and spy on 
him, one of the center DEs? This would make his cruelty to Harry and 
favoritism of Draco a necessity. 

Also, speaking of when Snape became a member of the order, JKR went out 
of her way to tell us how long teachers had been at Hogwarts. Trelawney 16 
years, prophecy time, before Harry's birth. Snape, 14 years, after Harry's 
parent's death. Could he have been the one to alert DD to their deaths?

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