Whoever Snape is fooling...

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 134178

Del said
"I know this post isn't advancing any theory or anything. I just had to
express my utter admiration for someone who has been, for several
years, fooling either one or both of the greatest Legilimenses in the
world. I won't take a stand in Snape, because JKR deliberately keeps
us in the dark IMO, but I can't help but be amazed by the acting
capabilities, and the sheer talent in Occlumency, that Snape has been
demonstrating.

I also wonder WHEN he started fooling anyone. More particularly, was
it before or after he joined the DEs the first time around...?"


Well, I've been having similar thoughts about dear Severus (gag).  I keep
coming back to something DD said in GOF during the Pensive scene.  "Severus
Snape was indeed a Death Eater.  However he *rejoined* our side before Lord
Voldemort's downfall and turned spy for us, at great personal risk." To
*rejoin* a side you had to have been there once already.  At least that's my
take. Otherwise wouldn't DD have said 'he joined our side'?  In HBP DD says:
"I believe it to be the greatest regret of his life and the reason he
*returned*..." (HPB 513 Can Ed)  Again, you can't *return* to something you
have never been a part of.   I have thought, for some time (although I don't
really spend much time thinking about Snape for the same reason you outlined
above), That Snape fooled DD the first time..when he came crawling
back...convinced DD he was repentant (remorseful of passing on the prophecy
info as we now are lead to believe)...and was really working for LV all the
time.

Milz said "As a spy, Snape is a betrayer. That's the nature of a spy: they
must deceive and betray the "other side". As a double agent, Snape is a
double betrayer. Betrayers in classic literature don't get very far,
lifespan-wise."  I think the difference here is Snape is double-agenting
himself.  When the crap hits the fan at the end of all this no matter what
side loses, he still has a job.  If ths side of good is defeated and LV
reigns supreme, Snape has done his job well.  If the good guys win, everyone
in the order knows he was spying on the DE's for DD.  DD's portrait or
memories in the pensive can prove Snape was acting on DD's orders to kill
him to let Malfoy live. (If you believe that theory.)

Harry said it best, didn't he, when he said: "But [Snape's] a very good
Occlumens, isn't he, sir?"

CathyD
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