Snape--A Spy? (was Re Snape - Abusive)

[Kethryn]

No: HPFGUIDX 115160


Amanda said - 
<snip>
There is a great need for Harry to survive and be equipped against
Voldemort; but there is also a great need for a spy in the enemy's camp,
which I think Snape is. <snip>


Kethryn - 

I finished rereading GoF Wednesday, I think (it's been a hell of a week, what with midterms and all), and I am in the middle of a reread of OotP (just so you know where the question is coming from).  Ok, so if Snape really was spying on the DE which I believe he was doing so, then why on earth did he tell Fudge about being a DE himself at the end of GoF?  Not that I suspected that Fudge would tell Voldemort or anything like that, seeing as he was so busy in trying to cover it all up, but Fudge?  Bumbling, incompetent, irrational Fudge?  Especially since Snape knew about Bertha at that point, that, to me, makes the information he (Snape) divulged all the more unlikely to be told to anyone in the Ministry.  So I am very confused as to why Snape a) actually bothered to try to make Fudge see the truth (colossal waste of time) and b) why he would think anyone in the Ministry was trustworthy.

If it were me and I was spying on Voldemort, I would want to be able to count, on one hand (preferably on one finger) exactly how many people knew what I was doing.  Talk about need to know information...

Kethryn