Snape the Spy (WAS Re: Who was responsible for Sirius' death? ...)

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 167772

Dana:

> This was in front of Harry in the hospital wing. Do you 
> really think Harry is too stupid to understand what DD 
> is asking of Snape? He is not sending Snape to gather 
> Order Members because he has just send Sirius to do that. 
> And he just witnessed Snape show Fudge his Dark Mark.

houyhnhnm:

In March, Harry *surmised* that Snape was spying on 
Death Eaters and Snape confirmed it. Seven months earlier, 
when he was staying at Grimmauld Place (let alone the night 
he came back from the graveyard), Harry hadn't gotten nearly 
that far.  Carol has already provided the canon, so I won't 
repeat it.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/167745

I think the statement that anyone "knows" is a perilous 
statement to make in the Potterverse. Many characters 
think they know, the readers think they know, but time 
and time again, it turns out that seeing is not believing.  
>From Snape's hexing of Harry's broom to Buckbeak's 
execution to Crouch's empty seat, things are not always 
as they appear to be.  "What is truth and how do we know 
it" is what fascinates in the Harry Potter saga. It is 
the meta-topic of all Harry Potter discussions.  And as 
Dumbledore says, " The truth is a beautiful and terrible 
thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."