JKR's crying at the end of writing DH/ Double agent's death

[nitalynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 171529

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
> Alla:
> 
> Hm, I think that you are using **double agent** to have the same 
> meaning as spy, right?
> 
> Because if you are arguing that Snape as **double agent**, meaning 
> that he is playing both sides equally - reporting information to BOTH 
> Dumbledore and Voldemort in the equal way, then I am really really 
> not sure what is so tragic about his situation?


Nita visits the omniscient Wiki oracle and has a field day with all
the shiny new words:


Um, a "double agent" is neither a plain old spy nor an OFH type of
person, says the Wikipedia:

"A double agent is someone who pretends to spy on a target
organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is
loyal to the target organization. Double agents may be agents of the
target organization who infiltrate the controlling organization, or
may be previously loyal agents of the controlling organization who
have been captured and turned by the target."

DDM!Snape is "double" because he's stationed at Hogwarts, pretending
to spy on DD and the Order. Now, if Avery, for instance, was DDM as
well, he would be just an "agent" or a "spy".

Interestingly, ESE!Snape would also be a double agent since he's also
the Order's spy in DE camp, so Voldie would be able to feed false
information to them through Snape's reports. A plain agent for
Voldemort would be an ESE!McGonagall, for instance. Or FakeMoody!Crouch.


Nita, excited about all the spy-talk but not sure that it's JKR's
favourite part of the story, and thus still expecting her to deal with
Snape in her usual ruthless way...