The Good and Evil of Snape (was: Harry ... act like ...)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 99630

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "silvr23dragon"
<silvr23dragon at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

> > 
> > bboy_mn:
> > 
> > People have often speculated the Snape will prove his ultimate 
> > loyalty to Dumbledore by dying in a heroic effort to save Harry. 


> Mary: 
> 
> Here's a somewhat related question for you to ponder.  Wouldn't 
> Voldemort and the Death Eaters know that Snape is a spy?  In the GOF 
> when Harry is in the pensieve, Dumbledore vouches for Snape 
> publicly.  Wouldn't that knowledge be known?  But I do also agree 
> that something major is going to happen to Snape.  What, I can only 
> come up with crazy ideas.
> 
> Mary


bboy_mn:

The only scenerio I can come up with that allows Snape to continue as
a spy is if Voldemort sent Snape to Dumbledore to pretent to join the
good side. That way Voldemort would have a spy in Dumbledore's
organization. Once Snape had worked his way into Dumbedore's
organization he saw the error of his ways and became a true spy for
Dumbledore.

He's a double agent; he pretends to spy for both side with the
knowledge of both side, each thinking that he is truly working for
them and pretending to work for the other.

That's the only way, at this later date, that Snape could have
maintained his friendship with Malfoy, and now have rejoined Voldemort.

Part of being a double agent means that to some extent you have to
betray both sides, but you just betray the side you are truly aligned
with a little less.

bboy_mn