[HPforGrownups] Severus Snape is Ever So Evil (was: Re: BIG PROBLEM WITH ...

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Carolione quotes me:

> Eloise, exploring the possibilities that Snape might be Ever So Evil, 
> wrote:
> 
> 1. Cindy is right.
> Is it really possible that Snape's loyalty to Dumbledore is a sham? 
> Well, 
> he's apparently a spy. He must be able to dissemble. Did he (as I 
> asked once 
> before) therefore recruit Pettigrew? Has he been preserving Harry to 
> use his 
> blood in that restorative potion when the time was right? <snip>
> 
> 2. Voldemort *believes* that Snape is his Faithful Servant, but is 
> actually 
> wrong. <snip>
> 
> 3. Voldemort is actually referring to Crouch/Moody. <snip>
> 
> 
> Now me:
> I would like to add a #4 (actually, this is my husband's theory, 
> which he completely, 100%, believes in):
> 
> 4.  Snape is Ever So Evil but NOT a faithful DE
> 
> According to this theory, Snape has Evil Overlord ambitions of his 
> own.  He is keeping Harry alive because he knows Harry's Big Bangy 
> Secret (whatever that may be), the secret that means that Harry has 
> the best chance of anyone to defeat Voldemort.  
> 
> Snape's hatred of Harry doesn't have anything to do with LOLLIPOPS 
> (too soft for a guy like Snape, in my husband's opinion.)  Nope, 
> Snape resents Harry because he has to keep him alive.  Because for 
> whatever reason, Harry can do what Snape himself can't (defeat 
> Voldemort).
> 

Aaagh! Someone's let the boggart out of the wardrobe again! *That* was it . 
*That* was the thing I'd thought of when I was having my attack of acute 
paranoia.

(me, back at the end of Jan):
>Ok, you have been warned...
>What if he's been saving Harry to preserve him for that restorative (yikes!) 
*potion*?
>Perhaps there was some problem with the Philosopher's stone solution to >
Voldemort's problems. Perhaps he was doubting Quirrel's loyalty to Voldemort 
and >that was the reason for threatening him. Perhaps ( this gets even worse) 
he wants >Harry's blood in the potion because he knows that it will make 
Voldemort vulnerable >and he wants to be the Big Bad Wizard? Perhaps... (I 
told you I was paranoid)...

Yes, it makes sense. Of course he wanted to save the Stone from Voldemort. He 
didn't want Voldemort to be immortal. He instead played a waiting game, 
waiting just like Voldemort for the right moment, the moment when Voldemort 
would be strong enough to regain his body and then aids the process by 
providing the recipe (at least) of a potion which contains the fatal flaw 
which will allow his downfall - Harry's blood. Is it a coincidence, I ask 
myself, that Snape is an expert in the very field which restores Voldemort to 
his body?

Cindy:
>5.  Snape was somehow able to return to Voldemort at the end of GoF, 
>yet show up at the leaving feast without so much as a slimy hair out 
>of place.  Why?  Voldemort knows Snape is really an Evil Double Agent 
>who has tricked gullible Albus Dumbledore into believing Snape is 
>Dumbledore's spy.

Eloise:
The problems I have with this scenario are, 
1. We don't actually *know* that this was his mission.
2. Why did he go a whiter shade of sallow when he was sent?

Perhaps Truly Evil!Snape *is* an ex-DE? 
Then he *would* be the one who has left for ever and if Dumbledore was 
sending him back, then he would have a problem and would be apprehensive.
*But* ......perhaps things are the other way round. He may have duped 
Dumbledore into thinking that he's a double agent in his service, i.e. that 
Voldemort still thinks he's loyal. I hate to be bangy about this, it's 
against my principles, really, but that pink, flamingo-featherboa seems 
curiously to be trying to entwine itself around me........

Of course....he still has to get that potion used. But then, Pettigrew 
doesn't know that he's no longer loyal to Voldemort. He's held in too much 
contempt to be told such details. Who else would he go to to get instruction 
in the art of making an obscure and difficult potion?

Or........as the flights of fancy get ever more fantastic...........He hasn't 
duped Dumbledore, they're in it together. He's Dumbledore's agent in his 
(D's) quest to be the undisputed greatest wizard of the age. (No, I don't 
believe it either.)

So now we can envision Snape, sitting in his dungeon, his long fingers 
caressing the fur of that kitten - you must particularly remember Snape's 
kitten, Best Beloved [that's a ref to Kipling, for anyone who's worried about 
a sudden outpouring of affection] (I suppose it has to be black, not white 
and fluffy, or we'd have noticed the cat hairs by now) evilly planning his 
future as Voldemort's successor.

Yeah. We've got motive, we've got means, we've got a sick personality (Snape 
has, I mean), we've got the protection of The Order of the Flying Hedgehog if 
we're wrong. We've even got the cat!
Truly Evil!Snape is unassailable.

Eloise
(Thinking playing Devil's Advocate is quite as much fun as playing Sherlock 
Holmes. And no need for that dratted pipe!)
PS has anyone named that kitten yet? Should we ask Porphyria, who seems to 
have a way with naming cats? 


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