Snape spying pre GH (WAS: Re: When did the Lestranges attack the Longbottoms? )

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No: HPFGUIDX 151117

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zgirnius" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:
>
> > Betsy Hp:
> > Ooh! Which means that Snape was spying for Dumbledore for over a 
> > year before Godrics Hollow, right?  
> > 
> > (Desperately thinking of something to make this more than just 
one 
> > line...)
> > 
> > Hmm, this does make the Peter vs. Snape vibe that much more 
> > interesting, doesn't it?  How hard must Snape have searched for 
the 
> > Order spy everyone knew was there, and how frustrating that he 
never 
> > did find him.  (Was Peter similarly stymied, or did Voldemort 
ever 
> > realize he even *had* a spy?)
> > 
> zgirnius:
> I imagine Voldemort did suspect he had a spy, and perhaps even who 
it 
> was. There had to be soem reason he thougth Snape had left him 
forever, 
> in GoF.
>

Brady:

This is really interesting now. Point is that nobody in the older 
Order even *knew* that they had a spy working for them in the other 
camp! Otherwise, people would have more respect for Snape, than just-
trust-him-because-DD-trusts-him. They would have known how difficult 
it must have been for Snape to do the job he did. But I feel, that in 
the pre-GH period, Snape reported only to DD, and therefore ONLY DD 
could keep him out of Azkaban.

Again, how come LV chose someone like PP for his spy? LV himself 
acknowledges that he is not of much use. Except for getting Bertha 
Jorkins, he hasn't ever shown any kind of brilliance that LV would 
associate with his DEs. So, why was PP his pawn? It does show one 
thing here - LV knew about Snape working for DD. Snape had convinced 
him about his double agent role. Otherwise, how is it that Snape - a 
really brilliant and accomplished wizard - could not find out about 
the spy in LV's camp? It is just that he did not reveal it to the 
Order. If he had, he would have been personally murdered by LV. So 
that's where the great personal risk factor comes in. 

Oooooooh! there is so much I can say on this, but seriously, have to 
get back to work. May be I will come back later and continue. :)

JMO,
Brady.