What Snape Knows WAS Re: Depth? Things to take on their face value

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 139912

 
> Jen: OK Nora, I exaggerated saying Snape would know *every* plan. 
> JKR told us DD has no confidante, no equal--true. Saying Snape 
> doesn't know every plan hardly negates the information he could take 
> to Voldemort if he is truly serving him now.
> 

<snipping Jens and Pippins list and getting straight to brass tacks>

Valky:
I am not sure how relevant you will find this, but I've always been
fairly confident that Dumbledore give Snape specific information to
pass to Voldemort. As a spy, notwithstanding what his true loyalties
were, he was definitely passing information to Dumbledore IMO. It
doesn't seem above and beyond to assume that Voldemort finding out
about Lucius and the Diary got to DD through Snape, or to assume that
both Dumbledore and Voldemort were receiving at the very least, useful
and wanted information from Snape.

Lets put it this way, if Snape wasn't bringing Dumbledore a
respectable amount of important information, then in DD's eyes the
risk to his life would start to outweigh the balance and he'd be taken
off the job and given some other duty to perform. Likewise if
Voldemort considered Snapes information to be of little or no value to
him, there is a spell to fix that problem. It's one thing to be close
 to and trusted by the enemy, it's entirely another to use that
position to advantage. 

So I have come to the conclusion that Dumbledore handed Snape
information, in one way or another, deliberately. The kind of
information that would keep Voldemorts curiosity in check and help to
keep-up the smokescreen of Snape being truly Voldies man, and Voldie
having the best of him. Whether or not Snape is DD's man through and
through, Snapes Double agent status is a strategy of Dumbledores hence
Dumbledore would work it to his advantage. This must be done, or else
what use is a double agent anyway?

What this line of thought eventually leads me to is the reason that
Snape ordered the DE's not to kill Harry. I submit that Dumbledore
conspired for some of the prophecy to be leaked to Voldemort, or at
least an interpretation of it, enough so that Snape could provide
Voldie incentive to believe that a very great threat to him would be
Harry dying at the hand of another. Just enough to keep Harry alive
for one more round and indeed the very thing to help Snape survive a
rampaging Voldie who has just lost the prophecy forever. This, to me,
seems a Dumbledorish thing to do. 

If I am right, then Voldie has been told either must die at the hand
of the other. There is a problem with this in that it is a ticking
time bomb, enough to forestall Voldie making an attempt on Harry for a
short while, but also, I think a crucial piece of the prophecy from
which Voldemort could probably figure out what is going on somewhere
down the track.. with any luck too late. 

Yes I know that it's speculation, but I am far from giving up
believing in Dumbledores plan just because he died. I think that there
is strategy underlying the plot of HBP, from both sides, Voldemorts
strategy is explained to us by Dumbledore (apart from it being fairly
obvious too), and this is the strategy I think Dumbledore would use to
counter it.

Valky