OoP: What Snape is really doing out there...

[knvna]

No: HPFGUIDX 65926

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:


> 
*Snip
> 
> As for Snape not getting the credit he deserves, let us remember 
that 
> we don't know exactly what he did as a DE and what sins he's trying 
> to wash away (if he truly is on the Order's side, which is still in 
> doubt) so as long as we're talking about karmic retribution, I'd 
> prefer to wait until we see Snape's debts and credits before 
passing 
> judgement on what credit he deserves. 
> Is he risking his life? On the surface, yes.
> 
> But his petty refusal to continue the Occlumency lessons, his 
> continual digs at Sirius (Look, Headmaster, look at all the work 
I'm 
> doing, while Sirius sits on his butt! Jesus, GROW UP!), his 
> insistence on calling V-Mort Dark Lord and his refusal to allow 
Harry 
> (who, after all, has earned the right to refer to V-Mort as Lord 
> Marvolo of the Cream Cheese Burrito if he wants) to use the true 
name 
> all speak to something deeper with this guy.


Maybe his refusal to continue Harry`s lessons were not so petty after 
all. This whole Occlumency thing and Snape as the one chosen to 
teach. It seems to me a no win situation for him. He takes a chance 
at pissing off V by teaching him to shut his mind to him on the the 
one hand,  on the other he takes the chance that Harry will glimpse 
something more than he`s let on about his true activities. 

There`s the comment Sirius makes re. DEs "It`s lifetime of service or 
death" and seeing as Snape is still alive leads me to believe that he 
is still in fact, counted among thier ranks. Especially given the 
ample amount of opportunities they would have to kill him as he does 
seem to leave the safety of Hogwarts to go to headquarters and the 
trip he did or did not make into the forest to look for Harry.

K