My Pet Snape Theory (Long)

[monika_zaboklicka]

No: HPFGUIDX 130183

Hmm, good point. However, it is true that, moments after the Potters 
were attacked, everybody seemed to know that LV is gone. Much as I 
like your theory (I'm a partisan Snape's fan) I'm afraid that these 
particular event doesn't prove anything about Snape, except perhaps 
that he's inteligent and fast-thinking, which we knew already. Though 
you can say that Snape joined the "white hats" because he was ancious 
about baby Harry, one can argue that he heard about Voldemort's death 
and got cold feet. No, I rather stand by what Dumbledore said, that 
Snape became a spy long before LV fell, and was spying for the good 
guys "at great personal risk".
Ah, and by the way - although spying does not seem to be a 
gentlemanly thing, and I can quite see why people don't trust anybody 
who'd changed colours, I still prefer a sneaky spy to a splendid 
Auror who went around torturing and murdering *suspects* after Crouch 
allowed such behaviour.

Monika

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<rosered2318 at y...> wrote:
> This is my first post because the list elves told me to.  I still 
> feel I am a little inexperienced but....what can you do.  Let's 
leave 
> a little space for people who have the preview option on their 
> messages, in case they consider it a spoiler....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Anyway - my pet Snape theory goes like this.  I take it for granted 
> that Snape was DD's informant that Voldy was after the Potters (and 
I 
> think most everybody else does - please don't bombard me if you 
don't 
> =).  However, this, to me, is not enough reason for Dumbledore to 
> trust Snape....he pulled a turncoat which indicates that he is 
likely 
> to do it again.  Especially considering the countless possible 
> motivations for becoming a spy in the first place.   Personally, I 
am 
> highly skeptical of Snape's actions - I believe he is always on his 
> own side.  My first instinct was to believe that Snape became a 
white 
> hat because he heard the prophecy or at least realized his side was 
> going to lose.  But what makes Dumbledore so sure that this time, 
> Snape is rolling with the white hats permanently?  It would have to 
> be something pretty big to counteract Snape's most basic character 
> traits.  
> 
> 
> I don't want to argue Snape's motivations for his change of heart 
> because I don't feel we have been left any such clues.  But I do 
> think we have been left clues about where Snape fits into the 
Potter 
> Puzzle - and it is much larger than just telling Dumbledore the 
> Potters were in danger.  It ties up some very loose ends with 
several 
> different puzzles as well... and it goes a little something like 
> this...
> 
> We learned in OOtP that only the Secret Keeper can grant access to 
> the place of hiding (when Harry reads DD note).  In fact, it is 
such 
> a powerful spell that Harry needed to have the meaning of the note 
> sink in before Grimmauld Place actually materialized in front of 
him 
> (he looked left at 11, then right at 13, but it didn't appear until 
> Lupin said "Think about what you've just read, Harry.").  This has 
> other implications, as well, in that the secret cannot be divulged 
by 
> someone who already knows it (one of the forward guard could have 
> told him, otherwise).  I am also operating under the (rather large) 
> assumption that the only person who can break the spell is someone 
> who already knows the secret.  
> 
> So what does this have to do with that Halloween night?  Well, 
think 
> about it this way...Pettigrew was the only person who could let 
> anybody know where the Potters were.  Hagrid delivered baby Harry 
to 
> his Aunt and Uncle.  Ummmm....is it just me or there is a huge non-
> sequitor here?  Somehow the news got out, and only Pettigrew could 
> let people know there was even news to tell.  So the question is, 
who 
> did he run to?  Who can he trust?  Enter Snape - the only person in 
> the Death Eaters he knows well (and possible knows of) because he 
> spent so much time with the people that tortured him in school.  He 
> tells Snape what has happened, then tells Snape the Secret.  
> 
> This is how the white hats know that the Potter's have been 
attacked 
> and killed, and baby Harry is still alive.  How else could they 
have 
> found out?  It wasn't going to be on the news because nobody could 
> see the place!  Nobody could find it even if they knew where it was 
> until the secret was told and the information was processed.  The 
> only person we are aware of that was in a position to get the 
Secret 
> told to him was Snape.  
> 
> So now, Snape has a choice.  He can act like nothing has happened 
> which is in his own best interest, or he can save baby Harry.  
> Whatever caused his change of heart, he had to be the one to pull 
> baby Harry out of the flaming wreckage because he couldn't tell 
> anyone where Harry was, and anyone else who knew would have no 
> interest in saving him.  This would be a pretty big reason for 
> Dumbledore to trust Snape, and answers most of the Halloween night 
> questions nicely.  
> 
> I also don't think Snape is The spy in Voldemort's inner circle.  I 
> think he is A spy, but not The spy.  But that is for another post...
> 
> RoseRed