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Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory.

Today we'll be going for a deep dive into how Lord Voldemort never figured out that Severus Snape was a double agent,

whose true loyalties lay with

Albus Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix.

As revealed at the very bitter end of the Harry Potter series, Professor Severus Snape

was one of the most successful turned cloaks to have ever lived.

Becoming a follower of Voldemort and officially a Death-eater, shortly after leaving Hoggwatt's

School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Severus was a wizard deeply entrenched in the world of dark

magic from a rather young age. Before he became enamored with the Dark Lord in his teachings,

however, Severus's first love was that of the Muggle-born witch, Lily Evans.

And so when Snape learned of a prophecy that inevitably sent Voldemort after the woman he loved

and set into motion a series of events that would result in her death, Severus chose to

alter his allegiance and instead worked for the very group of witches and wizards set on destroying

Voldemort while pretending

to remain a faithful servant to the Dark Lord.

At the very end of the series, through a devastatingly painful and sad montage of Professor

Snape's memories, alongside a rather confused Harry, we discover that shortly after discovering

that his beloved Lily was in danger, he

called back to his former headmaster, Professor Albus Dumbledore, in an effort to gain his

help in preventing her murder at the hands of the Dark Lord.

However, since Dumbledore was ultimately unable to save her from death, Severus was overcome

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