Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 21: Hermio...

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 191014

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Pat:
> Don't have my books with me right now, so I can't give the exact spot, but I believe that it's in GOF where Harry sees a trial in the pensieve and one of the DEs (Karkaroff, I think) says that they were organized in cells, didn't know who was in others. So it is very likely that Snape had no idea who the spy was. He probably didn't even know who all the DEs were.
 
> Sorry for being unable to locate the exact passage.

Geoff:
I think the bit you mean may be the following:

'"You say that you have names for us Karkaroff," said Mr. Crouch. 
"Let us hear them please."

"You must understand,: said Karkaroff hurriedly, "that He Who Must 
Not Be Named operated always in the greatest secrecy... he preferred 
that we - I mean to say, his supporters - and I regret now, very deeply, 
that I ever counted myself among them -"

"Get on with it," sneered Moody.

"- we never knew the name of every one of our fellows - he alone knew 
exactly who we all were - "

"Which was a wise move, wasn't it, as it prevented someone like you,
Karkaroff, turning all of them in," muttered Moody.'

(GOF "The Pensieve" p.511 UK edition)