Whys is Snape allowed to continue spying?

[Chris]

No: HPFGUIDX 131476

 
> Juli:
> 
> Why are you so sure that LV knows that Snape has
> joined the Order? 15 years ago when he disapeared, his
> DE (not all of them of course), when back to the WW
> saying they were under Imperio, or like Karkarov they
> made bargains. So why would it be so unlikely that
> Snape got a job at Hogwarts? For all these years Snape
> has been in Malfoy's good side, he's been his lapdog
> (as Sirius says), and I bet he vouched for Snape in
> front of LV. Who besides the members of the OoP knows
> that Snape is working with Dumbledore?
> I bet he went back to him, and just like the others he
> begged for forgiveness, and I guess he got it cause
> he's still alive.
> 
> JMO, 
> 
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Chris:

 I'm not sure that LV knows that Snape joined the Order. However, in 
GoF, LV is walking around surveying the DEs that returned to him when 
summoned. When he comes to the gap in the circle, he says: "And here 
we have six missing Death Eaters...three dead in my service. One too 
cowardly to return...he will pay. One, who I believe has left me 
forever...he will be killed, of course...and one, who remains my most 
faithful servant, and who has already reentered my service." 
Scholastic U.S. PB, p. 651

  Now obviously the DEs know the dead ones whom LV is referring to. 
Karkaroff is the cowardly one, Barty JR. the loyal one, that leaves 
Snape. This scene doesn't look to me as if LV is trying to put on a 
show for Harry or the others. He genuinely believes Snape is gone 
from his service, and will be killed as punishment. Lucius Malfoy is 
among the DEs present, so how can he act like normal in the presence 
of Snape? It would seem Lucius would be the closest to him, could 
kill him easily, and return to LV with news of his death and regain 
his master's favor.

  Now if Snape is a double agent, which he very well could be (though 
I doubt it) then the above scene makes no sense. Like I stated, I 
think LV was genuinely angry, not just putting on a show.

Chris
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