Snape -- DE or not DE? (Re: Some questions/comments about GoF)

[Jacqui]

No: HPFGUIDX 102184

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hettiebe" 
<carol_sutcliffe at y...> wrote:
> Barbara <bd-bear at v...> wrote:
> 
> > I think Snape WAS a DE, then turned to DD and changed his 
allegiance. 
> > However, he is still pretending to the DEs that he IS on their 
side 
> > and that he is spying on DD for them. So he's playing spy for 
both 
> > sides. <snip> I guess one of the mysteries I'd like solved when 
this 
> > is all over is who is Snape truly loyal to? Is he in fact an ex-
DE or 
> > has he been stringing DD along the whole time?
> 
> 
> One point that has always worried me is how Snape maintains his DE 
> standing with Voldemort after the conversations he has had with 
> Quirrel. Surely his defending the Philosopher's Stone and all that 
> you don't want me as an enemy and and decide which side your are 
on 
> stuff would have given him away given that Voldy was supposed to 
be 
> on the back of Quirrel's head at the time.
> 
> "hettiebe"

What an interesting point.  That really opens a new flood of 
questions eh?