The Ultimate Betrayer

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 70650

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tracie" 
<tracie622 at y...> wrote:
> I have been going over all the threads and posts about Snape, 
and 
> thought I would add some.  First, I do not trust Snape.  I believe 
> he will be the ultimate betrayer to the Order.  He was a Death 
> Eater, and  yes, DD believes him to be reformed.  I don't..I think 
> he is a spy...he is at Hogwarts with Harry and DD.  Wouldn't LV 
want  someone inside Hogwarts to watch every move they both 
make??  Who  better fits this but Snape?  

If Snape were in Voldemort's pocket, why would Voldemort have 
needed to possess Quirrell? He could have sent Snape after the 
Stone. Anyway, the place Voldemort really needs a spy is in the 
Order, not Hogwarts. 


 
> Second, I do not believe that he was actually trying to teach 
Harry Occlumency, I believe that he was using it as a means of 
opening up  Harry's mind more to Voldemort's.  Making it easier 
for LV to penetrate Harry's thoughts...in fact, this happens during 
one such supposed Occlumency lesson...Harry goes down the 
corridor.  Harry  himself keeps saying..."he's making it worse".<

What if Snape is teaching Occlumency properly, but  Harry's 
positive emotions, what Dumbledore calls his "heart," were 
keeping Voldemort out of Harry's mind all along, not just at the 
end. By learning to suppress his emotions, Harry did  indeed 
making himself weaker.  

Snape had no way to know this would happen. He says the link 
between Harry and Voldemort doesn't follow the usual rules of 
Occlumency/Legilimency. For one thing, it works over long 
distances and surmounts usually opaque barriers like the 
Hogwarts defenses. 

I note, in connection with this, that it's Lupin, much more than 
Sirius or Snape,  who keeps pressing Harry to learn 
Occlumency. Does Ever So Evil Lupin want Harry to pursue 
Occlumency lessons because he's realized that they'll be 
self-defeating?

Does any one else find it highly suspicious that Lupin  fires not a 
single curse at any Death Eaters in the battle at the MoM?  And 
when Lupin jumps between Lucius and Harry, Lucius doesn't 
curse Lupin instead. Why not?

Snape  could have killed Sirius in the Shrieking Shack. I think he 
would have liked to...I think he was hoping Sirius would attack 
him, but Snape won't kill in cold blood. In fact, we've never seen 
Snape use an offensive curse on anything except rose bushes, 
IIRC. Even when he duels Lockhart in CoS, he only uses 
Expelliarmus.

Pippin