A little George, a little Lollipops, a whole lotta Snape

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 34906

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

> Snape's usual style is formal, polished and artificial, almost as if 
> he'd learned it out of a book. The contrast is most noticeable in 
> the staircase scene in GoF ch.25 where Snape says "I don't give 
> a damn about that wretched poltergeist..." to Filch and switches 
> styles "It is unimportant" when Moody comes along.

OK, I see. Interesting.


> Sort of. Harry dreams of the interview between Voldemort and 
> Wormtail, in which Voldemort says he is going to feed Harry to 
> the snake instead of Peter. Also, shadow!Cedric wants his body 
> rescued. I felt there might be more than sentimental reasons for 
> that. Presumably if Nagini is simply hungry she could feast on 
> ordinary flesh, but Voldie seems to want her supplied with 
> wizards.

Good explanation for Cedric's last request. Of course, the perennial 
reason for not leaving your friend's body out is to stop it from being 
eaten by something.

> Besides, I like the rather LeCarre 
> (waves at Alex) scenario where Lily makes her offer to Snape not 
> knowing he is actually on her side.  Snape can't tell her, and she 
> can't tell him that she is planning to disappear and  he's never 
> going to see her again, no matter what happens. But that's just 
> me. 

Interesting. Would add to all the tragical misunderstandings about 
that period. Lily thinks that Snape has totally gone beyond 
redemption. 

>I don't think we can get away from sliminess in a spy story. 
> "Think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets 
> and tells naught but lies." The best we can do, maybe, is try to 
> shift all the sliminess to Voldemort and Peter. Judy's Ewww 
> theory does that. But if we say that Snape had noble motives 
> from the beginning, then his redemption is less meaningful, 
> IMO.

Right. Let me get all the scenarios straight in my head.

1. It's Voldemort's idea. He tells Snape, who disgusted, starts 
thinking about what is going on with his life.

2. It's Lily's idea. She makes the proposal to Snape (with an eye to a 
last ditch defense of Harry), who agrees, and passes the idea onto 
Voldemort. Snape could have a variety of motivations in this version 
for agreeing. 

3. It's Snape's idea, and he's a greasy, slimy loser.

I like 1 and 2. 

Eileen