Doesn't Voldemort know about Snape's loyalty?

[Pat]

No: HPFGUIDX 107197

Peter:
> > I was reading PS/SS and it dawned on me--if Quirrell
> > knew that Snape was loyal to Dumbledore, and Quirrell
> > was possessed by Voldemort, wouldn't Voldemort know
> > that Snape is in the OOTP?
> 
> James said:
> 
> snip, snip

> He wouldn't know Snape is in the Order,
> because I highly doubt that the teachers sit around in the lounge
> discussing it. Not only would they not discuss it in front of an
> outsider (Quirrel), but they really have no reason to (since 
Voldemort
> isn't around, or so they think).
> 
> Or, perhaps Voldemort already knows that Snape has betrayed him, in
> which case the question still stands.
> 
Pat here:

The other point about the Order is that it apparently was disbanded 
from shortly after Voldemort's demise when the curse intended for 
Harry rebounded on him instead.  It was only re-started at the end 
of Harry's 4th year when he (Harry) told them he had seen 
Voldemort's rebirth.  So there would have been no reason for the 
staff (who don't all seem to be in the Order) to discuss it in the 
staff room.

I have always wondered though about Voldemort overhearing the 
discussion between Snape and Quirrell.  Is it worded so carefully 
that it can have more than one meaning, do you think?  Or is that 
the evidence that Voldemort is referring to Snape in GOF when he 
says that a former Death Eater has left him forever and will be 
killed?

Pat (hollylawrence67)