[HPforGrownups] Re: OoP: What Snape is really doing out there...

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 66076



bookraptor11 wrote:

> However, I was thinking on your response at work and I thought of a 
> reason Snape, as an Occlumencer, would want to build up a stock of 
> unhappy and angry memories. In OOP it's never stated that Snape has 
> rejoined the DEs though he is getting info on Voldemort's moves.  
> 
> If he's any way close to V, he can't use his Occlumency to totally 
> block V from reading his emotions. He wouldn't want V to know he can 
> do this.  Snape would want to block any memories of his work for the 
> Order, and at the same time feed V memories of his (Snape's) hatred 
> for Harry, Dumbledore, mudbloods and blood traitors, that he 
> (supposedly ) can't quite supress, even though Snape is undercover at 
> Hogwarts. He's trying to show Voldemort that he's having trouble 
> looking like a reformed DE.
> 
> This might explain why Snape applies for DADA every year and is 
> turned down by Dumbledore. Voldemort can pull out genuine negative 
> emotions Snape is feeling toward D, and so fool V easier than if 
> Snape had to manufacture anger when he didn't really feel angry.
> 
> Even people on the list who like Snape (and I am one), have had 
> trouble with his "I see no difference" comment to Hermione.  It may 
> be that it was said not only because Slytherins were around, but that 
> someday he would have to prove his loyalty again to V, and the 
> comment is vicious enough to not only convince V, but could be used 
> when Snape wanted to give V a laugh.
> 
> If you believe this theory then Snape is almost never truly out of 
> control.
> 
> Donna

I think it's a brilliant theory, and it would explain everything:
Harry, Neville, Hermione, applying for DADA every year, why Dumbledore 
sometimes appears rather hostile to him...
If Snape and Dumbledore play this game, and if Dumbledore was the one 
who taught Snape occlumency, that's a very neat explanation
both for Snape's anger and for Dumbledore's trust.

Irene