Snape and the MOM (Was: Snape the coward or the one left forever?

[suehpfan]

No: HPFGUIDX 92941

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "earendil_fr" 
<earendil_fr at y...> wrote:
> Sue wrote:
> > No doubt this is true.  *Everyone* knew Lucius Malfoy was under 
the 
> > Imperius Curse too ;).  The question was in regard to Snape being 
a 
> > member of the Order not about his denouncing Voldemort.  
Voldemort is 
> > very aware that everyone in the circle around him at the 
graveyard 
> > had denounced him or they would be in Azkaban, which is, of 
course, 
> > the reason the people in Azkaban would be so well rewarded when 
they 
> > were freed.  The problem for Snape is that he also (according to 
DD) 
> > turned spy and everyone in the room knew that as well.  Which is 
why 
> > so many of us think he is the one Voldemort "believed" had left 
him 
> > forever.
> 
> Or... Snape was supposed to be doing some spying for Voldemort as 
> well. Voldemort would know his being a spy and a member of the 
> Order, and use him as a double spy to get information from the 
> Order... So Dumbledore's words at the trial wouldn't come as a 
shock.
> 
> Which side Snape was really on at that time, and who he gave real 
> information about the enemy, could also be debated, since we only 
> have Dumbledore's word that he was on the Order's side.
> 
> This could also be some kind of Slytherin behaviour from Snape... 
> Rooting for both sides and in the end pretend he had always been on 
> the side of the winning ones, whoever they were...
> 
> Earendil.

Yes exactly!  As a firm fence sitter where Snape is concerned, it 
would not surprise me if Snape was trying to play two sides against 
the middle so he could join the winner in the end.  The only problem 
I see with this is that both of the men he is trying to convince are 
brilliant,  the hotter the war the more difficult it will be for any 
double agent to stay true to both sides without incriminating 
him/herself to one of them.

All we know for sure is that DD believes Snapes story.  Obviously 
Voldemort believed Snape too.  I think book 6 will have us 
*convinced* one way and then turn it around at the end of book 7.  

Bottom line, we'll know when we know.

"This ones's in two minds," said Fred...."Blimey, what a waste of 
parchment..." :)
Sue