PoA - Snape knew?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 143513

Whizbang wrote:
<snip quotes and part of post> I'm suggesting that Snape is
responsible for both.  And  Snape gives a good explanation of the
confundus charm and it's effects at the  end of PoA.
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> Julie:
> Er, so Snape is a metamorphmagus animagus? Along with his potions
mastery, DarkArts/DADA knowledge, superb Occlumens/Legilimens ability,
and outstanding dueling skills--really, why didn't he just take out
Voldemort and Dumbledore a long time ago and start ruling the WW, as
he supposedly so fervently desires? Who could stand up to all this,
really? 
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> Okay, I'm being a bit sardonic, but it seems overkill for Snape to
be revealed as a surprise Animagus, let alone one who can morph from
insect to insect (besides, if he's an animagus, he should be a bat!). 
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> Sometimes a fly is just a fly, and a wasp is just a wasp ;-)

Carol adds:
Not to mention that he'd have to cast a Confundus Charm without a wand
while he was in fly or wasp form--quite a feat. Snape has enough
abilities and enough mysteries attached to him without crediting him
with planting prophecies and visions in Harry's mind, especially when
those events have other, more credible, explanations (Trelawney really
is a seer--on occasion; Voldemort planted the vision using the scar
connection).

Carol, who does not doubt that Snape is a powerful and talented
wizard, but considers him a tragic character, not a supervillain