So, why did Snape turn on Voldermort?

[marinafrants]

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "joeblackish" <joeblackish at y...> wrote:
> Put it all together, and I think that Snape switched his 
allegiance 
> for entirely selfish motives. 
> 
> That ambitious drive in Snape's belly told him that he would 
> never get the power and recognition he wanted as long as he 
> was with Voldemort. In fact, working for an evil nutcase like that 
> is downright dangerous – the guy's in a bad mood one day and 
> all those evil deeds were for nothing. 
> 
> No, much better to work for someone like Dumbledore, who 
> keeps his promises and passes out credit where credit is do. 
> Also, unlike Da V-miester, Dumbledore will actually die someday 
> and leave the top spot open.

Yeah, but it's not like Dumbledore is Minister of Magic or Grand Poo-
Bah of anything.  The "top spot" he's leaving open is Headmastership 
of Hogwarts.  A nice, respectable job, to be sure, but I can't see 
that it offers much to a person of overweening ambition.  No untold 
riches.  Very limited power.  No glamour or glory.  Dumbledore is 
famous and influential because he's Dumbledore, not because he's 
Headmaster.  And Snape isn't even second in line for the job -- 
McGonagall is.  No, given what Voldemort does to traitors, I 
seriously doubt that Snape would turn on him just because he hoped 
that fifty years down the line he'd get to be the guy who makes the 
pre-dinner speech at the Sorting Feast every year.

Marina
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