[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape vs Quirell

[Meng Yu]

No: HPFGUIDX 122456


> Juli wrote:
> So, my question is if Snape faced Quirell a few
> times
> and told him to stop chasing the Stone, to decide in
> whom is his loyalty, then why didn't Voldemort also
> know about it? He was already sharing Quirell's body
> and soul, so he must have known and heard all their
> conversations, right? So how come Snape does not
> know that Snape has changed sides? that he is
actually working for the Order and Dumbledore?

I think LV knew that Snape have changed sides.  I
think Snape isn't spying in OoTP, or at least not
pretending to be a DE.  I think we think that because
Snape was a spy last time, Harry thinks that Snape is
a spy, and we have no comment from anyone in the order
to contradict this.  If you reread about Snape acting
as a spying it is almost all speculation on Harry and
Ron and Hermione's part which seems like a great red
herring since Ron is almost always wrong about these
things.  Harry asked Snape about it once and Snape
said yes but his eyes were glittering and we don't
know what that means yet due to current on going
debate :P.  I think Snape probably would enjoy
misleading Harry about something like this.  We know
that Snape was cleared during the trials last time
around since DD testified so all the people at the
trial knows about it too. 

> vmonte responds:
> If you're highly suspicious like me, you can read
> these scenes 
> another way. Snape knows from the beginning that
> Voldemort is inside 
> of Quirrell, and he is helping Voldemort. Quirrell
> is trying to fight 
> off Voldemort, and Voldemort has enlisted Snape to
> keep an eye on him-
> -and keep him sedated/drugged, and quiet until
> Voldemort is strong 
> enough to take over Q's body completely.   

Does this mean you think Snape is spying for LV and
not DD/order?  Because if Snape is working for DD then
why didn't he tell DD right away about LV/Q?  At least
fire Quirrell so he wasn't so close to the stone.  
But if he was working LV then nothing in the other
books makes any sense since LV wouldn't have needed
Moody then etc etc.  I agree that these scenes are
very confusing. 

And this is what SS/PS said
"Professor Quirrell, in his absurd turban, was talking
ot a teacher with greasy black hair, a hooked nose,
and sallow skin. 
It happened very suddenly.  The hooked nose teacher
looked past Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's
eyes and a sharp hot pain shot across the scar on
Harry's forehead." 
... (conversation with Percy about snape)
Harry watched Snape for a while but Snape didn't look
at him again."

So the book didn't explicitely say if Snape was
checking out Quirrell's turban or not.  Maybe he
wanted one for himself for all his greasy hair. :P

(surprised how much funny it is to make fun of Snape,
no wonder Sirius and James did it :P)
   ltl