DD & Snape (from Poison intentions)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 97653

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" 
<vmonte at y...> wrote:
Vmonte:
>>Many people have ascertained that Snape and DD are 
working together.
But were they working together during POA? It seems to me that 
Snapewas completely out of the loop during POA.<<

I think the people who were being kept out of the loop in PoA 
were Fudge and the  committee. As far as Snape could ascertain 
when he looks at the Map in Lupin's office:

1) Lupin, who hasn't taken his potion, is on his way to the willow
2) Dumbledore is with Fudge and the Committee for the 
Disposal of Dangerous Creatures 
3) [time-travelling] Harry and Hermione are elsewhere on the 
grounds

If Snape goes to Dumbledore, Fudge will insist on knowing 
what's going on. He'll assert his authority and take the matter out 
of Dumbledore's hands. In any case, Dumbledore wouldn't want 
the committee to deal with a werewolf loose on the grounds.  
Snape might, but can he trust the committee? What if they are in 
league with Voldemort? (In fact one of them is.) So Snape 
decides to deal with Lupin himself. Snape, too, is granted an 
extraordinary degree of license by the Headmaster.<g>

We may guess that just as the staff know all about Lupin being a 
werewolf, they know all about Hermione's time-turner. Fudge 
probably doesn't know. I doubt he's routinely involved in deciding 
who gets time-turners.

So when Dumbledore says to Snape, "Unless you are 
suggesting that Harry and Hermione can be in two places at 
once..." he is simultaneously confirming to Snape that  Harry did 
have something to do with Sirius's escape, telling him how it 
was done,  and warning him to shut up about it. That sounds like 
Snape is in the loop to me. Snape might have remembered 
seeing Harry and Hermione on the map at that point and *not* 
seeing Sirius Black and Ron. 

Pippin