Snape contiued (was Re: XPOST: Lupin is Ever So Evil Part One -- The Prank )

[pippin_999]

> > Eloise:
> > I can only assume that,<snip>
> > 2) That the trial/hearing/whatever was protected by something
like a 
> > Fidelius so that what was said, at least about Snape, remained
secret.
> 
> 
> Neri:
> If this is the case then we were shown a way to bypass a Fidelius:
> look at the Pensieve memory of one who knows the secret. But I very
> much doubt it. For one thing, in the end of the GoF Pensieve chapter
> DD asked Harry to keep silent about Neville's parents, but he
*didn't*
> ask him to keep secret about Snape being an ex-DE. 
> 

Pippin:
But Dumbledore is most likely the secret keeper. That would mean
he could announce to the whole Wizengamot that Snape was a 
spy, and they couldn't tell anyone else. Dumbledore wouldn't
have to tell Harry to keep silent about Snape  because the spell
would take care of it. 

Obviously if Snape is to continue spying, it wouldn't do for
Voldemort or the other DE's to forget that Snape was ever a 
Death Eater. I imagine the secret would only be that Snape 
had turned spy.

We don't know what happens if someone who knows the secret 
tries to tell someone who doesn't. Do they mouth as if they were 
struck with a silencing spell, or does the listener fail to
comprehend  what he was told, much as Fudge failed to 
comprehend the meaning of the Dark Mark on Snape's arm?

That would allow Harry to have shared everything with Ron and
Hermione, as GoF says he did,  without them retaining the 
information.  Ron and Hermione discuss that Snape was a Death 
Eater and that Dumbledore trusts him, but they never say anything 
about him being a spy.

Snape is out and about, not having to stay behind the walls of
Hogwarts or the shelter of Grimmauld Place, so my guess is
he's not on Voldemort's hit list.

Pippin