Snape's Destiny/JKR quotes

[demetra1225]

No: HPFGUIDX 105357

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> Hi, Demetra.
> I just replied to the post with similar topic, so maybe you'll give 
> me some explanations. (You don't have to, of course, but I honestly 
> want to know. :)Why does Snape need to act as he hates Harry,when 
in 
> fact it is more effective to do what Crouch!Moody did?
> 
> If people think that he is the bad guy, doesn't it make them more 
> doubtful of them and thinking that he is a Voldemort!agent all 
along?
> >

Demetra:
I'm going to admit up front that I'm one of those people who takes a 
lot at face value when reading the books.  I guess I just assumed 
that Snape was spying again since that was what he did before.  
Dumbledore says this in the pensieve scene of Karkaroff's trial in 
GoF.  I assumed that DD asked him to go back to spying at the end of 
Gof.  Then at the beginning of OotP, when Harry first arrives at 
Grimmauld Place everyone is waiting for Snape's report at the Order's 
meeting.  Why so interested, if he wasn't coming with news about 
Voldemort and the DE's?  What else could Snape be reporting on that 
would be of such interest?

As far as Crouch!Moody, I think it was just a different situation.  
He was impersonating someone who was a friend of Dumbledore's.  As 
such, he would be expected to act like someone on Dumbledore's side.  
If he acted like the DE that he was, he would be suspected 
immediately.  Thus, he needed to be nice to Harry and the 
Gryffindors.  I would imagine he was probably real nice to the other 
teachers, except Snape.  He treats Snape exactly the way one would 
assume the real Moody would.  He actually made an excellent mole.  So 
I see it as actually the same situation, but in reverse.  Both Snape 
and Crouch Jr. have/had a cover to keep and both do/did it by acting 
opposite to what they really are.  

Demetra (who hopes what she wrote isn't as convoluted as it seems to 
her)