ESE!Snape (Was loads of other stuff)

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 98439

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
He's in the Order but not truly
> *of* it, if you get my point; he doesn't share their principles, 
their 
> morality or their concern at what Voldy and his merry little crew 
> may do if not checked. Snape probably did the same thing when he
> was a DE, it's a bit late to deny his own character now.

and etc....

Mel:
My thoughts EXACTLY. Snape in a nutshell. 


 Sorry,
> Sevvy old lad, you ain't gonna make it. Not to the end of book 7
> you're not. Shame really.


Mel:
He's got to make it to the end or I won't. Maybe not the very, 
*very* end, you know the big, group hug on the last page, I can miss 
that and miss nothing, but he's got to last long enough before he 
leaves to answer ONE question:
"What did he do to you?"

You know, Kneasy, the intellectual part of me says you're right. 
Snape's doomed to die, probably pointlessly. Likely 
thinking "whatever it takes" in pursuit of his one goal--the defeat 
of VD.

BUT--there's that one part waaaay back in the back row here that 
keeps saying it's too obvious. If anyone survives it's gotta be 
Snape because he's been a marked man from the start. Then there's 
the infamous line from VD himself, "he will be killed, of course." 
There's a small still voice inside insisting that JKR just might 
have saved the guy when she wrote that line. I know, it's silly, but 
a girl can dream, can't she?