Snape, Sirius, the Dementors

[dicentra_spectabilis_alba]

No: HPFGUIDX 34229


> > 
> > How's this?  Snape takes Black back to the castle, rather than
> > handing him over to the dementors, because he thinks that he'll
> > get more *glory* that way.
> > 
> 
> As a fan of Snape's character, I have to say he does not turn Black 
> over to the dementors because Snape hates the dementors quite like 
> Dumbledore does. The dementors are a cruel, barbaric way to treat 
> prisoners, and as we saw with Crouch Jr., they are not at all 
useful 
> for interrogation.
> 
Don't forget that Snape was probably a bit loopy at that point, 
having been zapped by a triple Expelliarmus and then involuntarily 
striking his head against the tunnel ceiling, complements of Sirius.  
He also might have watched the Dementors go after Harry for no good 
reason and feared they might go after him, too. 

--Dicentra, who actually favors the glory theory, given his 
conversation with Fudge after the incident.