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

[nowheregirrrl]

No: HPFGUIDX 152788

Ken:
> could Snape have been a simple secret agent all along, Dumbledore's
> plant in the DE from the beginning?  

"nowheregirrrl":
You know, I've NEVER even thought of that, and I don't think I've ever
come across that theory anywhere else before either.  It makes perfect
sense though, doesn't it?  Of course, now I have to go back and read
the books with that idea in the back of my mind.  JKR once said in an
interview that Snape is 'a deeply horrible person' and I assumed that
was the part of his character that made him become a DE.  But what if
Dumbledore planted him BECAUSE Snape is such a horrible person - he'd
be able to participate in DE raids and witness/participate in
atrocities without guilt/revulsion/ etc.

This all touches on something that not many people want to acknowledge
- that Dumbledore can't be all squeaky clean and noble.  In every
resistance group dirty work has to be done.  (Think of the French
Resistance in WW2).  JKR seems hellbent on portraying him as someone
who fights evil using only good, however that isn't very realistic.  I
realize that these books are children's books, after all, no matter
much we all would love them to be otherwise, but NO ONE is all good or
all evil - I simply don't believe anyone is beyond redemption and that
the 'good duys' are always just and noble.