[HPforGrownups] Re: New thoughts on Occlumency

[Lady Macbeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 100887

Susan Said:
Okay, this has been bugging me for a while now.  In SS, Snape meets
Quirrell in the forbidden forest, he's on to him about letting the
Troll into the school as a distraction, and tells him "We'll have
another little chat soon, when you've had time to think things over
and decide where your loyalties lie." (SS 13:226)  Even though we
readers didn't kow that LV was hiding in Q's turban (nor does Snape,
we assume) LV *was* there.  How can LV not now know where *Snape's*
loyalties lie?!

This is in the very first book, so I really don't see how Snape can
truly be spying for both sides, or how LV, Lucius, or anyone else for
that matter, can believe that Snape _isn't_ loyal to DD.  Wouldn't LV
know from that moment on that Snape is no longer loyal to LV at all?
Any thoughts?


Lady Macbeth replied:
Ah, but anyone who's good at "fibbing" to get out of trouble (or spy,
whichever) should be able to get around that one!  Wouldn't it be feasable
for Snape, if confronted by Voldemort with that, to simply say that he
didn't know that Quirrel was working for Voldemort, and that he thought
Quirrel had wanted the Philosopher's Stone for himself?  Surely an immortal
Defense Against the Dark Arts professor could be a major stumbling block for
Voldemort returning!

LOL Ok, so I've weasled my way out of too many tight situations and it
shows. ~_^  But I think that Snape could cover the Quirrel incident,
particularly if his cover story is that he's "playing" loyal to Dumbledore
to stay out of Azkaban and subversively help Voldemort in the process.

-Lady Macbeth


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