Why DD did not ask Snape to kill him. (extremely long)

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 166138

 "Dana" <ida3 at ...> wrote:
 
> 
> Where is it canon that he spied first and then took up the job? He
> couldn't have spied without the job because defecting was no option,
> he needed to hide behind LV's orders to go to DD and be a spy for
> him, otherwise he would have been considered a traitor.
> 
 
colebiancardi here:
I don't have my books in front of me, but I think it was in HBP when
Harry confronts DD about Snape being the "listener" at the door - for
the prophecy.  And in OotP, we get a timeline of how long Snape has
actually worked at Hogwarts and in GoF, we know that Snape turned
before October 31st, 1981, according to DD - RE: the trial in the Pensive.


Snape was not a teacher at Hogwarts prior to Fall of 1981 - DD never
hired him any earlier, according to the years of service we learned in
OotP.  So Snape HAD to have spied first - which was at the door at
Hogs Head - and then later, he turned.  DD gave him a job as the
Potions Master that began in the Fall of 1981.  

Snape, prior to Harry's birth in July 1980, was spying for LV and
trying to get in with DD at Hogwarts.  It doesn't mean he was a
teacher at Hogwarts and spying, but that he was a spy.  LV wanted him
to get a job at Hogwarts, but Snape failed to get that job in
1979/1980.  However, by 10/31/1981, we know he was no longer an agent
of LV's, but working for DD and he is now a professor at Hogwarts.

colebiancardi
(I am sure someone else will find those exact passages - but hey, not
bad for working without the books!!)