Snape a mole all along? WAS: Re: Draco, Harry & Norbert

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 152762

Hi all,

First post here. I only intended to lurk while enduring the long wait
for the final installment but I find myself drawn in by this line of
reasoning. I don't have the familiarity with the text that so many of
you have. I have seen a lot of speculation in various places about
whether Snape is a double, triple, quadrupule, ..., or n-tuple agent
and naturally have engaged in that myself. This exchange gave me a
sudden new (to me) thought: could Snape have been a simple secret
agent all along, Dumbledore's plant in the DE from the beginning?
Could that theory be squared with what we know of Snape's DE career?
It would require that he appear useful to the DE without committing
any real crimes.

DD would be certain that Snape was not a DE now if he had never really
been one. Or as certain as anyone could be. DD could not *ever* tell
anyone the reason for his trust of Snape if this were the reason. At
the least it would be the end of Snape's role as spy and it would lead
to his instant death if the DE caught him. 

Ken.