Im rewatching harry potter and the half prince... I realized that Severus originally was a death eater, then became a double agent for albus during the first wizarding war, then when Voldemort returned he convinced them he was a triple agent and was actually always working for Voldemort... but in fact he was a quadruple agent and was, in fact working for the order of the phoenix all along.

I love harry potter and all but man JK Rowling was not the best at realism :)

@freemo I think it was meant to be taken as he really did side with the death eaters, but gave it up at great risk for love.

@obi Well yes, originally in the first wizarding world whenn he first joined the death eaters it was sincere... but then (for love) he became a double agent... then he became a triple agent... and thenn we learn he was really a quadruple agent all along :)

@freemo I guess I see it as he is a death eater, even when being a double and quadruple agent, and his love for Lilly was so strong that he betrayed his kind. Interesting to think about his motivations though, if there was more.

@obi I think we are basically saying the same thing.

@freemo On a side note. Have you checked your servers performance in the past half hour. Seeing noticeable delays even in typing. New wave the cause?

@obi Typing should be affected only by thing happening on your machine. This might very well include your (web?) client being busy, but the server being busy should not cause that effect (other than maybe when you're typing a mention). @freemo