Ch. 16- Double Agent
Severus Snape lay in his dormitory alone, thinking. The girl spoke truth. The Dark Arts he had gotten himself so far into were hurting him. The pain was immense and he never really wanted a part in it. His father, abusive and a pureblood, he figured that Voldemort had the right of it and had pressured his son to get into them in the hope that Voldemort would take him as a follower. Snape did so only for the pride of his father which never came. He was always too stupid or too slow and would be lucky if the Dark Lord let him lick shoe much less join his band of followers. And then his mother, the only one to care for him and love him, died followed soon after by his father. Snape now lived on his own during the summer holidays and often rejected the headmasters offer to let him live at the school year round. What if the girl was right? What if he could find happiness in the right side? His father and his views had always been wrong in his eyes, but now he wondered if the other side was the right side, as he had been neutral in mind set.
He turned onto his side and held the pillow. He would try it, he decided. He would leave the dark arts behind and join the right cause.
Dumbledore looked up as a knock sounded on his door. Looking over his half-moon spectacles, he called for them to enter. Severus Snape entered and looked meaningfully into his headmasters eyes.
"Mister Snape, what a pleasant surprise," Dumbledore said. "How can I help you?"
"I'll do it, sir. I'll join the fight against He-Who—V-Voldemort."
Dumbledore smiled and nodded.
"I am glad," he said finally. "I have one of the hardest jobs of all to give you."
"I'll do it, whatever it is," he said. He was tired of all the pressure his father had placed on him. Helping the good side was a slap in the face to all his father had taught him.
Dumbledore rose and held his hand out to the boy.
"I, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore promise to serve by you as the head of the Order of the Phoenix, if you promise to serve the Order in all right and truth. Do you swear by this?"
"I, Severus Alan Snape, do swear by the Order and by all the members of the Order."
A dark blue light formed around their interlocked hands and a tingly feeling surged throughout Snape's body. He was a member, bounded by the power of the Order and its members. You are a member now, he reminded himself.
"Now, Severus," Dumbledore said, moving back to his desk. He sat and gestured for Snape to sit, which he did and looked up at his headmaster expectantly.
"Your mission and job is one of the hardest ones that I have to give," he began.
Snape hated when people beat around the bush, they should just get it over with.
"Sir, could you just spit it out?"
For a moment, Snape though that Dumbledore was going to laugh, but the next second he frowned.
"I'm afraid, Severus, that your job is to become a spy for the Order, and not just a spy, a double agent."
"You mean that I have to join the Death Eaters and spy on them for the Order," he asked, not believing his ears.
Dumbledore nodded.
"You have already gotten so far into the dark arts and know many people that are a part of Voldemort's followers that you are the only one in the Order that isn't suspicious to them. You are the only person for the job. Will you do it?"
Snape considered long and hard before coming to a decision. Playing Double Agent for the good side would be the best way to insult his departed father and to do what was right. It would be hard and dangerous, and he was definitely scared, but he would do it to prove to everyone and to himself that he was good.
He looked up at Dumbledore, his jaw set.
"I'll do it, sir."
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