Will the Real Severus Snape please step forward?

[juli17 at aol.com]

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Dana
We do not see him go to any real trouble keeping anyone  
> of them safe, at least not at any *personal* risk. He does not  
seem 
> to provide them any information to keep them one step ahead  of LV. 

wynnleaf
How could you possibly know this?  Harry is  not an Order member, and 
therefore we never see one Order meeting, where  presumably any such 
information is passed along.  We have no  particular information that 
Lupin is doing any good as a spy, either,  because we never see his 
reports.  


Julie:
This is exactly why debating how good a spy Snape is and how much  risk
he has actually taken is pretty pointless. We have NO IDEA, because  we
are privy to almost none of the information Snape has shared with 
Dumbledore or the Order. That's because we see almost everything in
the books through Harry's eyes, and Harry knows almost  nothing about
Snape's activities as a spy. 
 
Now I'm sure if you ask Harry his opinion of Snape as a spy, he'll be  happy
to agree with you, Dana, that Snape is a cowardly, pathetic, less than  
worthless
spy (and besides that, he killed Dumbledore, the bastard!). Harry would  also
probably say that Lupin is a brave and cunning spy of  the first order among
the werewolves. But that's just what Harry wants to believe. He has no  real
evidence at all about either man's abilities or usefulness to Dumbledore  or
to the Order. 
 
I know some will say we can judge by the results, but, again, without
knowing what information has been passed which way, we can't really  tell
what the results say. Maybe without Snape passing information to the 
Order, Voldemort would have already taken over the WW. At the very  least,
we know a few more DEs are behind bars thanks to Snape, which is at
least one indisputably good result.
 
For concrete evidence either way we'll have to wait until DH, I  think (or I 
hope, 
as some debatable points probably won't be cleared up even then). 
 
Julie 



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