Snape's reasons

[meira_q]

No: HPFGUIDX 47417

 --- In HPforGrownups at y..., IAmLordCassandra at a... wrote:
> First off, I'm sorry if this has been done to death. I just 
rejoined this list so I don't know if someone's had this same 
arguement or not. If they have, then I'm just agreeing ^^. 
 
I had the same question...
 
> I don't believe in the 'Snape joined LV because of some deep, 
emotional scars and defected when he 'saw the light' ' theory.  
 
I don't think so either.
  
> My reason for both this joining LV and his defecting is this: 
He's a Slytherin through and through. I think he joined LV because he 
wanted power. Snape, however, wasn't blinded as many others were. 
He saw that LV would fall and joined the side he thought would give 
him what he wanted. 
 
*snip*
 
here's what I think:
 
Snape is not such a nasty git as he seems to be in the books (we 
see everything that goes on from Harry Potter's POV). I think that 
he's not interested in the Dark arts so much as he's interested in 
potions. He actually saves Harry Potter in more than one occasion, 
and in PoA, he risks his own life to go and save Harry and his 
friends, because he doesn't know that Sirius is innocent.
 
We know for a fact that Snape was a spy for Dumbledore, and that he 
was a Death Eater, and that at the end of book 4 he goes to the 
secret mission that Dumbledore sends him to (I personally think 
that he's going to spy for Dumbledore again).
 
Somewhere in the books it says that Snape went to ask Dumbledore to 
help him, but I think that he joined the DE's the first time around 
already being a spy for Dumbledore. Somehow I don't think that 
Snape would join the DE's out of personal motives.

Of course, he could have joined out of peer pressure, but somehow he 
doesn't seem the type to give in to peer pressure (although he did go 
after MWPP to the Whomping Willow to see what they did there - but 
that seems to me to be a not-so-healthy-dose of curiosity).

Meira.