[HPforGrownups] Re: Secret Agent Snape

[digger]

No: HPFGUIDX 76888

slgazit wrote:


> In the books we are made to believe that Snape
> is firmly on the good side. It is repeated in nearly every book
> how Dumbledore trusts Snape. Ron's suspicions about Snape are also
> repeated in every book however.
> It will be interesting to find who was right - Ron or Dumbledore...
> 
> Salit
> (who thinks that Snape is currently on the good side but will turn
> bad due to his hatered of Harry, perhaps after DD dies)
> 

digger writes:

I too am still pondering Snape's position.

He is in an interesting and complex situation. Having (I imagine) become 
a DE when he was full of hate and desiring revenge (never a good time 
for career decisions), some of which was aimed, with good cause, at 
James Potter, something made Snape change his mind about Voldemort and 
turn to Dumbledore instead. I'd just love to know what that *something* 
was, but it must have indebted Snape to Dumbledore. I think this is the 
point at which DD offers him a teaching post at Hogwarts, and that part 
of the deal is that Snape continues undercover as a DE spy.

Snape, as a member of OotP, must be aware of the complete prophecy. If 
he really wants to stop DeathEating for good, he must realise his only 
chance of escaping from this highly dangerous double-agent spying-game, 
without getting caught and dying a traitor's death like Regulus, is for 
him to protect and preserve Harry from any *real* harm, so that our 
TeenageEternalHero can fulfill the prophecy and Vanquish The Dark Lord.

How it must grate on Snape that only Harry can release him from this 
awful situation!  That would account for Snape taking every opportunity 
to be petty and nasty to Harry in school, while also ensuring he does 
not fall off jinxed broomsticks from a great height.

digger