Snape's stalling

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 116350


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

> If Dumbledore said to Harry : "Professor Snape WENT to forest 
to  search for you". I would not question it for a minute. 
> 
> Just as you see ambiguity in the smashed flask scene, I think 
that  the word INTENDED used here for a reason.
>

But of course. Just because JKR doesn't want us, the readers, to 
trust Snape doesn't mean that he's untrustworthy. She obviously 
didn't want us to trust him at all in PS/SS, and she still wants us 
to have our doubts about him. 

But I can't think of any other time when Snape has stalled when 
he thought Harry was in danger. He may enjoy the sight of Harry 
confronting a giant snake, and 'lazily' tell Harry not to move, but 
he does say he'll get  get rid of it. When Harry is in real danger, 
Snape has never hung back.  Anyway, it would hardly gratify 
Snape's sadistic impulses if he thought Harry was suffering 
somewhere in the forest and he, Snape, wasn't getting to watch.

Pippin