Snape- Simply a pawn?

[greenfirespike]

No: HPFGUIDX 140631

 

Quick Silver wrote:
> In the endless debates about Snape I don't think I've ever heard 
the 
> idea that Snape is really just a pawn. Few people seem to have 
> considered the idea that it is Voldemort whose hand may have been 
> moving Narcissa, Bellatrix, Peter, Draco, and Snape. 
> 
> What if Voldemort had at some point realised Snape repentence and, 
> instead of killing him, simply decided that Snape could still be of 
> use to him. Voldemort doesn't only use "bad" people he also uses 
> the "good". 
> 
> Draco is given a mission that is sure to send his mother, Narcissa, 
> into a panic (and that everyone doubts Draco can do). Narcissa then 
> turns to Snape, the only person she "trusts" at Hogwarts. Along 
with 
> Narcissa is Bellatrix, who happens to be able to hide her thoughts 
> from Snape, who justs happens to serve as bonder. Once the 
> Unbreakable Vow is complete Snape is bound to his task (assuming of 
> course there is no way out of a UV). 
> 
> It's happened before in the HP novels: in CoS Riddle waited on 
Harry 
> to find his way to the Chamber, in PoA  Peter played off an amazing 
> ploy to get himself as secret keeper, and in OotP Harry is used to 
> het the prophecy despite it being easier for Voldemort to get it 
> himself. Snape has been fooled before, by Sirius Black none the 
> less, so it can happen. Isn't it interesting that Peter may have 
> known how the Prank was pulled off?
> 


Greenfirespike says:

I like your theory, but my concern with it relates to LV knowing 
Snape is a spy.  As HPB and CoS show, DE are more than willing to 
take matters into their own hands (or at least the Malfoys are 
willing).  Thus, there doesn't seem to be a good way for LV to keep 
some information from Snape.

Which of course leads me to the great question oft discussed 
here...who aside from Harry, DD, and Regulus (and his partner...) 
knows about the Horcruxs... Many, myself included, think that Snape 
must know (either from his DE activities, or from helping DD after 
the ring was destroyed).  

GFS