Traitor yet again (Was: Third Man in the Graveyard?)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 86132

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Carol:
> That can't be it. I think he somehow found out about Voldemort's 
plans
> and went not the other way around. There's no way that Dumbledore
> would have hired Snape as a teacher knowing that Harry would be his
> student if Snape were responsible for his parents' deaths. Also, he
> went over to Dumbledore about a year before the Potters were killed.
> The life debt, remember? He must have been trying to protect them 
and
> failed. Harry doesn't trust Snape, but
> Dumbledore does. And that trust has to be fully merited IMO.
> 
> Carol, who is sorry this isn't a particularly articulate post

This probably will not be the most articulate post either, but I 
agree with Mel. I think that is exactly how it happened. 

As to Dumbledore  not hiring Snape as a teacher if this scenario was 
the right one - why? At the end OoP Dumbledore admitted to Harry that 
he regretted doing a great deal of things, maybe that will be another 
regret of his?

I don't think Snape trying to pay life debt is mutually exclusive 
from him delivering the prophecy to Voldie on a silver plate. I can 
come up with quite a few reasons why . For example Snape may not have 
known that prohecy can be applied to Potters. Maybe he thought that 
it applies to Longbottoms only. As far as we know he does not owe any 
life debts to them. I think that it is safe to assume that at the 
time he served on Voldies' side, he committed quite a few atrocities, 
so he gets a lot of respect from me for finally making  a right 
choice and trying to correct the mistakes  he did.


I would love if Snape was the one who started the chain of events. It 
would be very bangy in my opinion. As I mentioned to someone off-
list, this would make a great confrontational scene between Snape and 
Harry, where I hope Harry will have a possibility to repay Severus  
for years of psychological abuse.

Anything is possible after OoP, in my opinion. Snape may turn out to 
be harry's saviour at the end, he also may turn out to be the 
ultimate betrayer, which I hope is not going to happen.


Alla