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

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> > 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.
> 

Neri:
This is an interesting idea, but a bit too complicated for me. If
Harry would have told Ron and Hermione that Snape was a DE but *not*
that he was a spy for DD, I'd imagine that even Hermione would have
questioned DD's sanity, and Ron would have probably raved about it for
days, instead of only one sentence. Same thing, if 200 wizards could
have told anybody that Snape was a DE, but *not* that he was vouched
for by DD because he spied on Voldemort, then I would expect *some*
parents to demand he'll be kicked out of Hogwarts, and I would expect
Sirius to know that Snape was a DE.

I'm of two minds about this myself. I'm just saying that we don't have
enough evidence to preclude the possiblity that Snape is doing his
spying from Hogwarts. But if he was indeed accepted back by Voldy, my
bet is that it wasn't achieved by hiding a thing that 200 wizards
already know. There are less problematic ways to achieve the same end.

Neri