Doesn't Voldemort know about Snape's loyalty?

[rebeccatrishel]

No: HPFGUIDX 107503

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ariston3344" 
<ariston3344 at y...> wrote:
> I (ariston) wondered:
> > I'm not at all sure that Snape *has* wormed his way back into 
> > Voldy's good graces. 
>  
> Rebecca replied:
> > The best indication that he didn't is the fact that Harry guesses
> > he might've. I mean, c'mon, Harry is usually wrong at this stage
> > in a mystery.
> 
> ariston again:
<snip>
> Granted, what Hermione is saying isn't true in the way that she 
> thinks it is, nor in the way a first-time reader would think.  But 
> it's more or less right!  Certainly it's moving in the right 
> direction.
> 
> As for Snape, I'm still not sure what's going on.  But that his job 
> is spying *somehow* seems likely from OotP.  He says that it's his 
> job to "find out what the Dark Lord is saying to his Death Eaters" 
> in OotP 26, and that fits in with his giving a top secret report to 
> the Order in OotP 4.



About Hermione being right: Yeah, BUT, a couple of pages later Harry 
figures out how to work the diary, and TMR shows him Hagrid and 
Aragog. Harry thinks that Snape is a spy in the last chapter of GoF, 
and we still don't know for sure.
Now, If I was JK Rowling, I wouldn't want to spoil the suspense about 
a mystery by giving away the answer two books before the mystery is 
solved.

Also, check out Snape's suspiciously happy response to Harry's idea 
that Snape is spying on LV in OotP.  Snape is doing SOMETHING, but 
spying seems unlikely to me.

And BTW, the "top secret" report in OotP maybe wasn't that top 
secret. I mean, the children couldn't hear what was said. Maybe it 
was really boring ... and why all this secrecy if Snape is just 
pretending to be a DE again? Why doesn't JKR go ahead and say so?

--Rebecca Trishel