Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161023154654/@comment-10390252-20161025112913

I've said this before but Salem, based on Cinder, seems to have a talent for identifying those who combined power and ambition with an antisocial mindset and are disaffected in some way. Raven could plausibly fit into this but it would have to be written very well to explain how Qrow missed that his sister had gone dark.

One possibility (which I have raised before) is that Raven is a deep-cover agent personally assigned by Ozpin to infiltrate Salem's group. In order to maintain her cover she has been forced to do... questionable things. Things that, if she worked for a legitimate government agency rather than Ozpin's personal militia, would leavve her and her controllers spending the next five years or so in front of varoious Boards of Inquiry.