Snape as Ultimate Hero

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No: HPFGUIDX 168210

I have been reading the posts for years but this is my first
contribution so please be gentle. Have been re-listening to the audio
of POA and was caught by the conversation where Fudge is explaining the
Black/Potters backstory. He mentions that Dumbledore had a spy who
alerted him that the Potters were the next target, and that sent them
into hiding. I believe Snape was the spy....then, BEFORE the Potters
death. Here's my theory.

Snape was a double agent working for Dumbledore long before any of
this. As a master occlumens (even better than LV if we believe that
Snape is good) he could even have heard the entire prophecy and kept
that from LV if he wanted to. His alerting DD to what was being
planned for the Potters was his way of repaying the life debt to
James, but it failed when Pettigrew became the secret keeper. At this
point Snape was powerless to save either James or Lily without showing
his hand and he has lived with that debt and guilt for 18 years. I
think when the books are resolved we will find that Snape was working
hand-in-hand with DD as his right hand in the battle against LV and
when Snape is sacrificed (gives himself up to save Harry) they will
all be ashamed of what they thought of him when the truth of his
role/involvement comes out.

OK.....let me have it....