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

[mnaper2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 99696

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.
> bboy_mn

Ally:

Another possibility is that Snape is just a very good liar.  In the 
occlumency scene, he goes off on a tangent really, telling Harry that 
LV is very good at detecting liars, and that the only people that can 
lie to him are the ones who can control the emotions and thoughts 
that would contradict the lie.

This seemed odd to me, since Harry learning occlumency is not for any 
purpose remotely related to lying to V's face.

Assuming what was said in those proceedings would have come to V's 
knowledge, Snape could have concocted the lie that he made DD believe 
he was a spy to save his own skin.