Why has DD never suggested Snape thank Harry? (Was: Why has DD never suggest

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 117491


I, Del, wrote earlier :
" CoS : even if Diary!Tom had managed to get himself a real body, I
really don't think he would have been any real adversary to DD. A
nuisance, more like, that DD would have dealt with pretty easily."

Alla answered :
"We don't know that. He dealt with Ginny pretty easily and who knows 
what wonderful things he could have started doing if he got a body."

Del replies :
Ginny was a first-year ! No comparison with any teacher in school
(well, any *real* teacher, not Lockhart or Trelawney).

As for the wonderful things : he would still have been a 16-year-old
Tom Riddle. Pretty powerful and advanced *for his age*, but no match
for DD or the Aurors.

Alla wrote :
" And as Pippin said, Dumbledore was not even at achool at the moment."

Del replies :
Agreed. But McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick were. I can't believe that
they couldn't have dealt with Tom.

Alla wrote :
"So, Ginny would have been dead and young Voldemort on the loose 
again, had Harry did not go to the Chamber."

Del replies :
Ginny being dead would have been the only *sure* tragedy in all this
that I can see. Harry saved her, no doubt. But a 16-year-old Tom
Riddle would only have been another DE-kid type. *Potentially*
dangerous, for sure, but not before many years.

Alla wrote : 
"In my book it does count as saving the WW from Voldemort."

Del replies :
Not in mine. Harry saved Ginny, agreed. He may also have saved the
world a bit of trouble, but honestly : 16-year-old Tom was NOT a
threat to the WW at large.  He might have killed a few other people
(he did know the AK curse, after all), granted, but he would
eventually have been stopped by DD or the Aurors or whoever.

Del