Snape Theories

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 73338

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bibphile" <bibphile at y...> 
wrote:
>Snape came to Dumbledore and offered to turn spy. Dumbledore did 
>not approach him. If Snape was just looking out for himself, he 
>never would have done that. Voldemort was winning. 

>A person motivated by self-interest usually doesn't leave the 
>winning side. 


Snape might have. I strongly suspect Snape's reason for leaving Voldy 
and the DEs had/has far less to do with *The Greater Good* than it 
has to do with something very personal. If one looks at the 
Occlumency lesson he gives Harry, in telling him how the Dark Lord 
preys on 'weak people who are easily provoked' as a warning as 
in: "It happened to me, don't think it can't happen to you!" one can 
assume that he was lured into the fold with promises of being able to 
see those who had wronged him brought to their knees. It would then 
follow that if, after being promised a good time, he (he's not 
stupid) figured out he'd been played (if we use that speech that's 
JUST what he figured) he might feel he had a *personal* score to 
settle with those who had led him on.
If he saw them winning the war it would have galled him deeply. I  
believe he'd have done (indeed did do) whatever he thought necessary 
to bring (here we go) those who had wronged him to their knees. 
How to do that? Go to straight their most feared enemy.
This is why I think that while most indicators point to Snape being 
on the "right" side, there is and always will be that niggling doubt. 
He's not charging around waving the flag of the champions like he's 
supposed to. Why? Because all in all he doesn't care which SIDE wins 
as long as HE gets his wrongs righted. Is he doing the right thing 
for the wrong reason? Maybe that's the definition of "not *too* nice."
In the end, if he's instrumental in Voldy's downfall, does it even 
matter?

But that's all idle speculation...

Melpomene