Hard time for Snape?(was Re: Draco the Death Eaters and Voldemort)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 140030


> Sherry:
--dear sevvy
> didn't have to spend all those years before Voldemort's return fooling
> Dumbledore.  --  Many Good Snape theorists have said it would be 
harder for Snape to
> fool Dumbledore for 16 years, and that he only had to fool Voldemort 
for a
> few years.  But it is really true, that he only had to fooled 
Dumbledore
> once when he returned to him with his supposed remorse, and then only 
for
> the two years since Voldemort's return.  Not all that difficult for a 
good
> spy and someone skilled at occlumency. 

Finwitch:

Yes - Snape's certainly able to. And I'll also answer to those who 
wonder why he does all these things when no one's watching... For the 
same reason Fake!Moody was, alone in his office with Harry... it's a 
very simple rule any successful spy follows: Always keep your cover, 
even when it appears you're not being watched.

Snape's just smart enough to do so - in this magical world of 
animaguses, Polyjuice Potions, invisibility, ghosts, talking portraits 
and whatnot - it's particularly important that the spy keeps his cover. 
Transferring Harry&co. on scretches? He was being watched by TT!Harry, 
was he not? How many others *could* have been watching? Something like 
a beatle-animagus? And how would Dumbledore react if the only survivor 
was Snape? Snape can tell Voldemort he had to do that to keep 
Dumbledore's trust so he would be more *useful* to him as a spy... 
which was his only excuse for not attempting to find Voldemort like the 
Lestranges...

Snape would not be good at playing the Double-agent if he was so 
careless as to drop his cover just because he thought he wasn't being 
watched... No one knows which side he's on, possibly not even Snape 
himself.

Finwitch