Curious Duality of Snape: (was: Harry begins to act ...)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 99260


bboy_mn wrote:
>>snip<<
 If he could see them and he thought Sirius truly needed to be
> > 'kissed', Snape could have just yelled for the Dementors to come 
back.
> 

Kneasy responded:  
> 1. Who do the Dementors take their orders from? The Ministry. That
> being so, why would they take any notice of Snape? If any wizard-in-
> the-street could give them instructions or requests then the WW
> would be a very dangerous place. The only instruction they seem to 
> respond to is "Go away!" accompanied by a Patronus.

Potioncat:
Given that they were assigned to protect Hogwarts, I would think a 
Hogwarts professor would have the authority to call to them for 
assistance in dealing with Black. 


Kneasy: 
(And this covers one of my favourite theories), what makes you
> think they were after Sirius anyway? On the three occasions that 
they 
> enter Hogwarts grounds they seem much more interested in Harry.
> At  no time in PoA does a Dementor even attempt to attack Sirius.
> Don't you think  that's a bit odd?


Potioncat: 
Yes I do think that's odd.  I think you're on to something with this 
theory. ESE!Dementors, now that's a nightmare!  But does Snape "know" 
that? Does Snape suspect that? And in this episode he didn't see them 
attack Harry did he? 


Kneasy: 
> No; in Snape's position I wouldn't try to call them back either. 
There's
> no  guarantee that even if they responded they would restrict their
> amorous propensities to the target you designate.


Potioncat:
Now that makes a lot of sense!  One is hard enough to deal with, but 
that many?  Of course, he could have bound Sirius, taken the others 
to the castle and used sonorous to call up the dementors, dashing 
into the safety of the castle.  No, I think Snape may be too brave to 
take that avenue, even if he does protect his own neck.  But I don't 
think at this point, he's less "heroic" or "noble" or whatever word 
one would want to choose.  The point is, he did not leave Sirius for 
the dementors.
Potioncat who hopes she hasn't dashed this off with too many mistakes!